b. Were the "gag resolutions" a direct violation of the Constitution? Give reasons. What was the case as to "incendiary publications"?

§§ 290-294. FINANCIAL AFFAIRS, 1830-40

a. Supposing the "removal of deposits" to have been justifiable, was the mode in which it was done expedient? Does the federal government now deposit money with the national banks?

b. Discuss the minor constitutional questions involved: (1) Jackson's assumption of responsibility; (2) right of the Senate to censure the President; (3) right of the President to protest; (4) right of the Senate to expunge resolutions from its Journal.

c. The Independent Treasury system : describe it and trace its history to the present time; how are government payments made to-day? d. State carefully the effects upon the crisis of 1837 of (1) development of machinery, (2) government deposits in state banks and the distribution of the surplus, (3) contraction of loans by the United States Bank, (4) Specie Circular.

$ 295. ELECTION OF 1840

a. Trace the formation of the Whig party. Was the Democratic party of 1840 any more the successor of the Republican party of 1801 than was the Whig party? Give your reasons.

b. If you had lived in 1840, what party would you have favored and why? What would have been the case in 1824 ?

§§ 296-297. TYLER'S ADMINISTRATIONS

a. Public lands review history since 1780; describe Jefferson's and Gallatin's attitude towards; note as a party issue until the Civil War; what is the present policy as to public lands?

b. The tariff: review history since 1816; how long were the low rates of the compromise tariff of 1833 in actual operation? sketch briefly the history of the tariff in Great Britain, 1816-44.

c. Trace the history of the Northeastern Boundary Dispute from 1783, and describe the settlement made in 1842. Represent in colors this history upon a sketch map.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

a. Compare the leading men of this period with those of the period of the Federalist supremacy and with those of the Jeffersonian epoch. b. Review your notes on "Slavery," "Financial history," " Particularism," and prepare for continuous recitation.

c. Represent upon a chart the origin and varying fortunes of the different parties which have appeared up to 1844.

d. Reports based on study of secondary authorities: assign to individual students the lives of the persons mentioned in § 279, also the lives of Garrison and of Phillips.

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION BY INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS

(See note under this head on p. 48.)

a. Summarize the arguments (1) of Hayne, (2) of Webster, (3) of Calhoun (393, first group, last two).

b. Compare arguments (1) of Hayne and Webster, (2) of Webster and Calhoun (393, first group, last two).

c. The Faneuil Hall meeting (402, second group).

d. Tabulate the electoral vote of 1840, and compare it with the electoral votes of 1824 and of 1844.

CHAPTER XI

SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 1844-1859

Books for Consultation

General Readings. - Johnston's American Politics, 149-189; Wilson's Division and Reunion, 141–204.

Special Accounts. — Lodge's Webster (S.S.); Schurz's Clay (S. S.); Von Holst's Calhoun (S.S.); Dawes's Sumner (M. A.); Schouler's United States; *Rhodes's United States, especially vol. I, ch. iv (slavery); *Greeley's American Conflict; *Goodell's Slavery; Clarke's AntiSlavery Days; *Draper's Civil War; *Taussig's Tariff History; Adams's Dana; Spring's Kansas (A. C.); Larned's History for Ready Reference; Wilson's Presidents. Larger biographies of the leading statesmen, Guide, § 25.

Sources. American History Leaflets; Benton's Abridgment and Thirty Years' View; MacDonald's Documents; Williams's Statesman's Manual; Greeley's Slavery Extension; Johnston's American Orations. Writings of leading statesmen, Guide, §§ 32, 33.

Maps. Mac Coun's Historical Geography; Hart's Epoch Maps, Nos. 7, 8, 11, 12.

Bibliography. - Channing and Hart, Guide to American History, §§ 56 a, 56 b (General Readings), §§ 189–202 (Topics and References).

Illustrative Material. McCulloch's Men and Measures; Sargent's Public Men; Blaine's Twenty Years; Bruce's Houston (M. A.); Garrisons' Garrison; Ripley's War with Mexico; Grant's Personal Memoirs; Wise's Seven Decades; Pike's First Blows of the Civil War; May's Recollections; *Stephens's War between the States; Sanborn's John Brown; Pollard's Lost Cause; Frederick Douglass's Life and Times; Elson's Side Lights on American History.

Lowell's Biglow Papers, Ode to Garrison, and Fugitive Slaves; Longfellow's Poems on Slavery; Whittier's Angels of Buena Vista and Anti-slavery Poems; Tourgeé's Hot Plowshares; Eliot's Story of Archer Alexander; Bret Harte's Tales of the Argonauts, and other stories of California life.

SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 1844-1859 298. Necessity for More Slave Territory. In the great material expansion which had marked the period since the

Influence of

slavery on population.