PENNSYLVANIA 



PENNSYLVANIA 



RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON PENNSYLVANIA 



(An Outline suitable for Pennsylvania will be found with the article "State.") 



Name the most noted battle fields of the state and describe briefly the engage- 

 ments which took place on them. 



Give two popular names for this state, and account for both. 



What does the official name tell you of the character of the state when it was 

 first settled? 



How many of the thirteen original colonies were founded before Pennsylvania? 



How many states of the American Union are larger than Pennsylvania? How 

 many of these larger states have a larger population? (See list, in article UNITED 

 STATES.) 



How long a lake boundary line has this state? To what does it owe its pos- 

 session of this shore line? 



If the entire United States had as many people to the square mile as has Penn- 

 sylvania, what would the population of the country be? 



What states have a density of population greater than that of Pennsylvania? 

 (See list, in article UNITED STATES.) 



How does it rank among the Northern states with regard to its negro population? 



What mineral substance does this state furnish that makes work easier and 

 pleasanter in the schoolroom, especially in the lower grades? 



What percentage of the population are of foreign birth or of foreign parentage? 



How many of the fifty largest cities in the country are in this state? (See list 

 in article CITY.) How many of the ten largest cities are in Pennsylvania? 



Why did many parents hesitate for a long time to send their children to the free 

 public schools? When was this condition of affairs done away with? 



What and where is the Delaware Water Gap? For what is it famous? 



What traces of its presence did the great ice sheet of the Glacial Age leave in 

 this state? 



How does the region which was formerly covered with glacial ice differ from the 

 region to the south of it? 



! I \v do location and altitude modify the climate in different parts of the state? 



How large a proportion of the entire area of the state is in improved farms? 



What article of food that frequently appears on the breakfast table is grown 

 more plentifully in. Pennsylvania than in any other state? 



How does the state rank as a mineral producer? 



Why was not the discovery of anthracite considered at first as of any impor- 

 tance? 



About how many tons arc now mined each day? How does this compare with 

 the amount mined a century ago? 



How many states surpass Pennsylvania in total value of manufactured articles? 



Make a list of all products, whether agricultural, mineral or industrial, in which 

 this state ranks first; of those m whirl, it ranks second. 



What is the railroad mileage to each hundred square miles of area? How many 

 states surpass it in this respect? 



If the entire country hud the same railway mileage in respect to area as haa 

 Pennsylvania, how long would tin- railways of the country be? 



How did the early history of this state prove that the Indians were capable of 

 keeping faith with any wl. who kept faith with thorn? See PCNN, WILLIAM. 



