MADISON 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON JAMES MADISON 



Outline 



I. His Youth 



( 1 ) Birth and parentage 



(2) Education 



(a) Private study 



(b) College 



II. Career as a Legislator 



( 1 ) Committee of Safety 



(2) Virginia general assembly 



(3) Continental Congress 



(4) Constitutional Convention 



( 5 ) Congress of the United States 



III. As Secretary of State 



( 1 ) Disputes with England 



IV. His Administrations 



(1) Madison's qualifications 



(2) War of 1812 

 (a) Its causes 



(a) Important battles 



(c) Internal problems involved 



(d) Hartford Convention 



(e) Treaty of Peace 



1. Question of impressment of sea- 

 men not settled 



(3) Fall of the Federalist party 



(4) Second Bank of the United States 



(5) Internal improvements 



(6) Tariff of 1816 



(7) Louisiana and Indiana admitted 



V. Madison's Last Years 



( 1 ) Interest in education 



(2) Virginia constitutional convention 



(3) Death 



VI. AVritings and Character 



(1) The Federalist 



(2) Virginia Resolutions 



(3) Advice to My Country 



(4) Estimates during his lifetime 



(5) Later opinions 



Questions 



What was the Federalist? Of how great importance was it? 



What was the Virginia Plan? What substitute for it was adopted? 



What were the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? Who wrote them? Who 

 was President when they were written? 



Why was Madison not popular during his second term? 



In what year did the British capture Washington? What was Mrs. Madison 

 doing at the time? Why did they not capture the President? 



Who succeeded Madison as President? 



What were his good qualities? What were the weak points in his character? 

 Are opinions of him to-day more or less favorable than they were during his life- 

 time? 



What was McCulloch versus Maryland? Who was John Marshall, and what did 

 he have to do with this? 



What is meant by Orders in Council? What part did they play in the War 

 of 1812? 



What was the Berlin Decree? The Milan Decree? 



Why did not the United States go to war with France as well as with England? 



Why was Tecumseh's plan for an Indian confederacy a factor in causing the War 

 of 1812? 



What was the "impressment of American seamen?" How was the question dealt 

 with in the Treaty of Ghent? 



What important battle of the War of 1812 was fought after the treaty closing 

 that war had been signed? 



What future President commanded the American army in this battle? 



