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mine explosion.
263. The attack on the Weldon Railroad. Why did Lee send Early into the Shenandoah Valley? Describe
Early's raid.
264. What Union general was now sent to this region? Describe Sheridan's campaign. His ride from
Winchester. His devastation of the country.
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265 The effect of his campaign. Describe the Red River expedition. The rescue of Porter's fleet. The massacre
at Fort Pillow.
266. The attack on Mobile by Farragut. First expedition against Fort Fisher.
267. The second expedition. Capture of the fort. Effectiveness of the blockade. Blockade runners.
268. Give an account of the Confederate cruisers. Of the battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge.
269. Of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. Of political affairs.
270. Who was elected President? Give a general review of the fourth year of the war.
271. Describe the situation at the opening of the year 1865. Sherman's march through the Carolinas.
272. Its result. What was the situation at Richmond? Describe the attack on Fort Steadman. Why was it made?
273. Its effect? Describe the battle of Five Forks. Its effect. The capture of Petersburg and Richmond.
274. The pursuit of Lee. His surrender.
275, 276. The terms. Its effect. Fate of Davis. The cost of the war. The assassination of Lincoln.
277. What State was added during this epoch?
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281. Who became President on the death of Lincoln? Give an account of the life of Johnson. What was the
size of the two armies at the close of the war? What did their peaceful discharge prove?
282. What do you mean by reconstruction ? What was the reconstruction policy of Johnson? What is the
Thirteenth Amendment?
283. What was the condition of the public finances? What was the reconstruction policy of Congress? Result
of this clashing between Congress and the President? On what conditions were the seceded States finally
readmitted to their former position in the Union?
284. Why was Johnson impeached? Its result? What is the Fourteenth Amendment? What Indian war now
arose? How was it terminated? Give an account of the French interference in Mexico. How did it end?
285. Give an account of the laying of the Atlantic cable.
286. What territory was added to the United States? Of what value? Give an account of the Fenian excitement
in 1866.
287. Of the treaty with China. What State was admitted soon after the close of the Civil War? Who were the
Presidential candidates? Who was elected eighteenth President?
288. Give an account of the Pacific Railroad, and its value to the country. What new railroad is building?
What is the climate in the far north along the Mississippi Valley and the Pacific coast? Extent of the public
lands granted? What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
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289-292. What was the population of the United States in 1870? Was the country recovering from the effects
of the war? What great fires happened in '71 and '72? What difficulty arose with England? What was the
High Commission? Give some account of Santo Domingo, and its application to be annexed to the United
States. What difficulty occurred with Cuba? What candidates for the presidency were nominated in 1873?
Who was chosen? Give some account of Horace Greeley.
293-295. Describe the contest with the Modoc Indians. What was the Credit Mobilier? What was the cause
of the Panic of '73 ? Name the Centennial observances of '75. Describe the Centennial Exhibition at
Philadelphia. Give an account of the Custer Massacre. Who were nominated for the presidency in '77?
296. What was the Joint Electoral Commission? What questions agitated the country at that time?
297,298. Name and describe the principal events of President Hayes's administration.
HISTORICAL RECREATIONS.
1. In what battle was Molly Stark the watchword?
2. What battle occurred when both armies were marching
to make a night attack upon each other?
3. What battles have resulted in the destruction or
surrender of an entire army?
4. What general rushed into battle without orders and won it?
5. What trees are celebrated in our history?
6. In what battle did Washington bitterly rebuke the
commanding-general, and himself rally the troops to battle?
7. What three ex-Presidents died on the 4th of July?
8. What cities have undergone a siege?
9. Contrast the characters of Washington and Jefferson.
10. By whom and on what occasion were the words used,
Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute ?
11. Give the coincidences in the lives of the three
great statesmen Webster, Clay, and Calhoun.
12. After whom ought this continent to have been named?
13. What celebrated philosopher, when a boy, went without
meat to buy books?
14. How did a half-witted boy once save a fort from capture?
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