UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 



Outline and Questions on the United States Continued 



2. Influence of great cities on de- 

 termining character of crops 



(b) The South 



1. "King Cotton" 



2. Other important crops 



(c) North -central section 



1. Great grain-growing region 



2. Other crops 



3. Stock raising and dairying 



(d) Mountain states 



1. Stock raising 



2. Irrigation 



3. Dry farming 



(e) Pacific Slope 



1. Diversified farming 

 (6) Manufacturing 



(a) Water power 



(b) Electricity and gas 



(c) Factors determining location of 



manufactures 



(d) Classes of articles made 



VI. Transportation and Commerce 



( 1 ) Travel by trails 



( 2 ) River travel 



(a) Introduction of the steamboat 



(3) Canals 



(4) Railways 



( 5 ) Coastwise trade 



(6) Foreign commerce 



(a) Early exports of raw material 



(b) Growth of trade 



VII. Government 



(1) A Federal government 



(2) The three departments 



(3) State and local government 

 (a) Powers reservo.i t., states 



(4) Territories and dependencies 



(a) How acquired 



(b) How governed 



VIII. Hisi,,r> 



(1) Discovery and exploration 



(2) Early settlements 



(a) French 



(b) Spaniards 



(c) English 



(3) Growth of thirteen colonies 



(a) Differing factors in development 



(4) Struggle between France and Eng- 



land 

 (a) England supreme in North 



America 

 (6) Revolutionary War 



(a) Causes 



(b) Events 



1. Military 



2. Political 



(c) Results 



(6) Articles of Confederation 

 (a) Why a failure 



(7) The Constitution adopted 



(8) Federal supremacy 



(9) Growth of democracy 



(10) War of 1812 



(11) New issues and parties 



(a) Tariff 



(b) Slavery 



(12) Jackson and Van Buren 



(13) Harrison and Tyler 



(14) Polk 



(15) Taylor 



(16) Slavery the great issue 



(17) Division and War of Secession 



(a) Causes 



(b) Events 



(c) Results 



(18) Reconstruction 



(19) Economic readjustment 



(20) Industrial unrest 



(21) Spanish- American War 



(22) Progress and Expansion 



(23) The Mexican trouble 



(24) War of the Nations 



Questions 



How does the United States compare in area with the smallest of the continents? 

 With the next to the smallest? 



How does it compare in population with each of these? 



What boast of Great Britain which refers to the extent of its territories is equally 

 trut- with rrlYrcnro to the United States? 



v far is the southernmost point of the United States from the tropics? 



Wind, is the largest of the outlying possessions of the United States? Whirl, 

 has been in the possession of the country longest? 



Which of these dependencies is farthest from the United States? Which is near- 

 est to it? 



Why did the United States from the first havo *o much closer relations with 

 I. u rope than with the countries west of the Pacific? 



