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Outline and Questions on the United States Continued 



What agreement exists between the United States and its northern neighbor as 

 to fortifications on the border line? 



Why have relations with Mexico never been as close and as friendly as relations 

 with Canada? 



What railroad outside of the territory of the United States had a great part in 

 the development of the Pacific slope? How? 



Why is it unlikely that the Panama Canal will offer any special advantages to 

 the Eastern countries of South America? 



What facts of importance in the commercial life of the country are due to the 

 fact that the north Atlantic coast has sunk and the South Atlantic coast has risen 

 within comparatively recent geologic time? 



What is the "fall line," where does it occur, and what effect has it had on the 

 location of cities? 



Where is the Great Basin? How does its drainage differ from that of most other 

 parts of the country? 



Why do east and west mountain ranges cause greater variations in temperature 

 than do north and south ranges? 



Why do mountains of the latter type have a greater effect on distribution of 

 rainfall? 



Who said that New England had no climate, but merely samples of weather, and 

 what did he mean by it? 



What is the special, determining feature of a cyclonic storm? 



How did immigration into the United States between 1840 and 1890 differ in 

 character from that of the later decades? 



Show by figures how the outbreak of the War of the Nations affected immigra- 

 tion into the United States. 



How did the attitude of the southern colonies toward education in the years be- 

 fore the Revolution differ from that of the northern colonies? 



What two natural resources first attracted adventurers and settlers to the north- 

 ern parts of North America? 



What is "the only considerable food supply still furnished freely by nature?" 



What natural causes and what desire of man may have had to do with the fact 

 that the western part of the United States was largely without forest cover? 



Why is the state and not the individual the natural and proper source of any 

 forest conservation movements? 



How is the vast importance attached to the industrial metals shown in naming 

 eras of civilization? What do you know about the dates or duration of such eras? 



What is the most important industrial metal? Which ranks next? 



What effect did the early agricultural tendencies in the South have on the 

 growth of an institution that later played a large part in history? 



What is meant by dry farming, and where is it chiefly practiced in the United 

 States? 



Who, so far as is known, established the first colony within the present limits of 

 the United States? Who established the first permanent colony? 



What colonies were founded by seekers after religious freedom? 



What claims of the French and English made it absolutely impossible that these 

 colonies, should exist and develop side by side in North America? (See FRENCH 

 AND INDIAN WARS.) 



What was the last state to ratify the Federal Constitution? 



