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84. That Congress had no power to prohibit the carrying of slaves into any State or Territory.

85. A law appropriating a sum of money for the support of officers and privates, their widows, children, and other dependent relatives. The liberality of Congress in this respect is unequalled by any other modern nation.-Enacted 1818.

86. A provision to prohibit slavery in Territory acquired from Mexico. 87. America forbade all trade with England and her colonies, France and her allies, passed Dec. 21, 1807, for the purpose of retaliation. It led to the war of 1812.

88. That Missouri should be admitted as a Slave State, and slavery prohibited from all territory north of 36° 30', and west of the Mississippi river, passed March, 1820.

89. Stephen A. Douglas-it was passed in 1854-thus opening out a vast tract to slavery which had been excluded by the compromise.

90. Opposition to any foreign powers extending their systems to any portion of this hemisphere.

91. By a treaty with England in 1846, the boundary line was fixed at 49° north latitude instead of 54° 40', as was claimed by the United States. 92. The assumption by the General Government of the State debts contracted during the Revolutionary war, the different factions favoring New York and Philadelphia.

93. In 1789. It substantially provides that persons who are residents of the United States for five years can become citizens by following certain prescribed forms of identification, etc.

94. The tariff, or import and export duties, was revised in 1816, so as to protect more fully the rights of Americans.

95. One is for the support of the Government, the other to protect U.S. industries of various kinds against the cheap labor products of other

countries.

96. The following Resolution was approved April, 10, 1862: "RESOLVED that the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery; giving to such State pecuniary aid to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconvenience, public and private, produced by such change of system.”

97. Restricting the President's power to remove civil officers without the consent of the Senate.

98. In 1864, to float the public debt during the late war and create a large home market for United States bonds.

99. Protection to the freedmen in their civil rights as citizens of the United States, passed in 1866.

100. In Maryland, the old law is very decided, blasphemers receive heavy punishment, and the persistent spreading of atheistic doctrine is punished with death without benefit of clergy.

101. In 1876, exercised supervision over freedmen, also loyal refugees, protecting rights, deciding disputes, aiding in obtaining work, extending facilities of education-discontinued in about five years, when its objects had been accomplished.

102. An oath taken by an officer that he had not aided the Rebellion. It was considered unnecessary, as an oath of fidelity to the Government covered all constitutional requirements.

103. Violation of the Tenure-of-Office Act, which declared it a high misdemeanor to remove an officer without consent of the Senate.

104. March 5th, 1868, ended May 16th, resulting in the President's acquittal by a majority of one vote.

105. A bank chartered in Pennsylvania, 1859, as a corporation for the general loan and contract business; reorganized 1864, to enable the shareholders of the Union Pacific Railroad to build their line without incurring any pecuniary loss if the enterprise failed.

106. The honesty of the management was impeached, and the affairs of the organization investigated by Congress, when some of those connected with it were highly censured.

107. It provides that honesty, efficiency, and fidelity, and not party zeal, shall be the test in making appointments; also, that soldiers of the Union and members of their families shall have the preference, all other things being equal.

108. July 1, 1891. Great Britain, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

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1. What was the Magna Charta?

2. When and why did party differences originate in America?

3. What were the existing parties during the Colonial struggle for Independence?

4. What has occasioned party divisions in the United States?

5. What party assumed control of Colonial affairs Civil and Military and won the victory for Independence?

6. What parties existed under the Confederation 1783–7?

7. What led to the disruption of the Whig party, and when?

8. What became of the Tory party and its adherents?

9. What relief did England afford the Tory exiles?

10. How many notable attempts were made at Secession or dissolution of the Union? and who were the party leaders?

11. What President other than George Washington was elected a second term without opposition? [dents by Congress?

12. What two Candidates not elected by the people were declared Presi13. When and under whose auspices was the first National Political Nominating Convention held?

14. Prior to the first National Convention, how were the Presidential Candidates nominated and how were the electors appointed?

15. When was the National Debt paid off? and when was it the largest ? 16. What is the motto of the Civil Service Code of the United States?

When and how did it originate?

17. When and how did Daniel Webster immortalize his name as the "Defender of the Constitution?"

18. What was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793?

19. Also of 1850?

20. What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. 21. Also of 1850 22. Mason and Dixon's Line; what was it?

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