Minnesota
State High School Board.
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Second Examination
of 1908
N. B.
NOTE.—Do not copy the questions, but answer them in the order
given. Put down the number of the question and its credits, whether you answer
it or not.
The
time for writing this examination is limited strictly to two hours.
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SENIOR
AMERICAN HISTORY
( Answer five. )
1 Answer
for two of these colonies, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or New York,
as
follows: Date, place and cause of first permanent settlement; name of one
governor,
one
important event.
2 Colonial Governments:
a. Name
and define three classes.
b. What
form of local government was established in New England?
Give two causes.
c. What
form was established in the Southern colonies? Give two causes.
d. What
control did the British government exercise over the colonial legislatures?
3 New England Confederation:
a. Object.
b. Members
of.
c. Expenses
how levied.
d. Governing
body.
e. Period
of existence.
4 First Continental Congress:
a. Why
called.
b. Number
of colonies represented.
c. Meeting
Place.
d. Action
taken.
e. Attitude
of British government toward it.
5 Declaration of Independence:
a. Ten
grievances cited in the Declaration.
b. Writer
of document.
c. Six
signers.
d. Where
and by what body adopted?
6 The Constitution:
1. Give
the source of these provisions:
(a) Electoral
College.
(b) Veto
power of president.
(c) Equal
representation in the Senate and proportional
representation in the House of
Representatives.
(d) Supreme
Court.
2. Show
how six serious defects of the Articles of Confederation were
remedied in the Constitution.
7 Hartford Convention:
a. Why
called.
b. States
represented.
c. Action
taken.
d. Effect
on the Federalist Party.
e. Date
when.
8 Constitutional Convention:
a. Why
called.
b. By
whom called.
c. Six
leading members.
d. Names
of three plans of government presented.
e. A
leading advocate of each.
9 a. National
Bank of 1791: object of, author of plan, cause of Jackson’s
opposition, result of his opposition.
b. Present
National Banking System: when established, why established.
10 Slavery:
a. Date
of first importation of slaves.
b. Provision
in the ordinance of 1787.
c. Object
of Personal Liberty laws.
d. “Freeport
Doctrine.”
e. How
slavery was finally abolished.
f. What
is the present negro problem?
11 Name ten separate acquisitions of territory, with date, means of
acquisition and in whose
administration.
12 a. State
causes of war with England in 1812, with Mexico, with Spain,
with China, with an important battle and an
American General in
each war.
b. Point out two applications of the
Monroe Doctrine since Monroe’s
administration.
13 a. State
a political issue in the in the campaign of 1800, of 1832, of 1860,
of 1896, of 1900.
b. Name five presidents elected by the
Democratic Party.
14 Discuss at some length one of the following
topics:
a. Party issues and candidates in the
present Presidential
campaign.
b. Financial panic of 1907.
c. The Japanese question on our
western coast.
15 Give the significance of the following
dates: 1639, 1754, 1765, 1682, 1789,
1793, 1848, 1807, 1815, 1832.