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factory girls at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1827. Some oppressive exactions aroused the girls; they struck and paraded the town with a band and American flag. The mill authorities quickly came to terms.

18. Great Britain, and Germany is our next best customer.

19. One was the imposition of a heavy tariff on imports which promoted manufacturing, and the other was the invention, manufacture and extensive use of labor-saving machinery for both agricultural and manufacturing purposes.

20. April 4, 1812.

JUDICIARY.

1. English common law has been the basis of the jurisprudence of this coun

try.

2. In 1787, June 4. Started by Oliver Ellsworth.

3. Article III., Sections 1, 2 and 3, and Eleventh Amendment, Article XI. 4. The territorial courts are not a part of the judiciary.

5. Courts held by American consuls, such as Egypt and China, which have sometimes even acted as courts of probate.

6. September 24, 1789.

7. A chief-justice and five associate justices.

8. The states which have been divided by congress into judicial districts, of which there are now fifty-seven in all.

9. In December, 1869.

10. In 1870.

11. Ten in all.

12. The chief-justice and judges of both the supreme and inferior courts hold their office during good behavior.

13. In 1807 to six, in 1837 to eight, in 1863 to nine, in 1865 to eight, in 1867 to seven, and in 1870 to eight.

14. Nine.

15. Ten thousand five hundred dollars per year.

16. Ten thousand dollars per year.

17. John Marshall was chief-justice for thirty-five years.

18. In one supreme court and in such inferior courts as congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

19. The Constitution provides that the supreme court shall be a co-ordinate branch of the National government, yet independent of and distinct from both the legislative and executive departments.

20. The supreme court meets annually at the National capital, commencing on the day when congress meets, the first Wednesday in December of each year.

MISCELLANEOUS.

1. Christopher Snyder, aged eleven years, February 22, 1770.

2. Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, New York and Washington.

3. Bacon's, Clayborne's, Shay's, Dorr's, Whiskey insurrection and the Civil

war.

4. Ordinance of 1787, Fugitive Slave bill of 1793, the Missouri Compromise act of 1820, the Fugitive Slave bill of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1857, the Dred Scott descision of 1857, and the Emancipation Proclamation of 186. 5. Marquis de Lafayette.

6. Yes, single women who were free-holders voted in the state of New Jersey us late as 1800.

7. Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts in 1811.

8. John Randolph of Roanoke, in 1820.

9. The line separating Pennsylvania from the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. The last monument is now standing, and photographs of same are

for sale.

10. The cotton-gin.

11. The battle of Gettysburg and the surrender of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. 12. General George H. Thomas.

13. Faneuil hall, Boston.

14. At the house of Mrs. Clymer, corner Seventh and High streets, now Market street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

15. The District of Columbia, the Indian Territory and Alaska.

16. It was the first legal declaration of liberty of conscience ever adopted in Europe or America.

17. At the siege of Vicksburg.

18. Nathanael Greene.

19. Andrew Johnson.

20. The Dred Scott decision was rendered by Roger B. Taney, chief-justice, in 1856, and the decision was that any person whose ancestors were imported into this country and held as slaves had no right to sue in any court of the United States, in other words, he denied the right of citizenship to a person who had been a slave or was the descendant of a slave.

21. Dred Scott was a young Negro slave of Dr. Emerson's, a surgeon in the United States army, living in Missouri. When the latter was ordered to Rock Island, Illinois, in 1834, he took Scott with him. There Scott married the female slave of another master, with the consent of their respective masters. They had two children born in that free-labor territory. The mother was bought by Scott's master, and parents and children were taken back to Missouri, and there sold. Scott sued for his freedom on the plea of his involuntary residence in a free-labor territory and state for several years. The case was tried in St. Louis and decided in Scott's favor; the supreme court of the state reversed the decision and the case was carried to the supreme court of the United States.

22. That each state is its own master and stays in the Union because it choses to do so.

23. Federal City.

24. On the fifteenth day of April, 1791, by the three United States commissioners, George Thomas Johnson, Honorable Daniel Carroll of Maryland, and Dr. David Stuart of Virginia, at the laying of the first cornerstone of the territory, at Jones' Point, changed the name to Washington City in honor of General Washington.

25. John Smith of Virginia fame, about the year 1614.

26. Vermont, in 1791.

27. Texas, in 1845.

28. Missouri Compromise.

29. A plan by which the revenues of the government were not put into banks, but kept by revenue officers under bonds.

30. The Monroe doctrine was that, "we owe it to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and the European powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their sys

tem to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety, and that America is for Americans.”

31. The building in New York where Washington took the oath of officethe old City hall, afterwards called Federal hall.

32. General Marquis de Lafayette.

33. Versailles, ancient Babylon and modern Philadelphia.

34. The City of Magnificent Distances, the Rome of America and the Queen City of the World.

35. Tradition is that it is called the White House out of respect for Martha Washington, whose early home on the Pamunkey river, in Virginia, was known by that name; its color was always white.

36. Virginia freestone painted white.

37. After the palace of the Duke of Linster, Dublin.

38. Eighty-nine thousand dollars.

39. One William B. Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, was executed June 7, 1862. He was arrested and tried by a military commission, sentence approved and signed by B. F. Butler.

40. In Carpenter's hall, Philadelphia, September 5, 1774.

41. Peyton Randolph.

42. At the second, which convened May 10, 1775.

43. At Salem, Massachus tts, October 7, 1774.

44. John Hancock.

45. Isaac Seers, Casper Wister, Alexander McDougal, Jacob Van Zandt, Samuel Broom, Erasmus Williams and James Varick.

46. After the ratification of the Constitution, congress appointed the first Wednesday of January, 1789, as a day for holding an election, and the first Wednesday of February following for the meeting of the Electoral college, but a quorum was not obtained till first part of April.

47. At the meeting of the Seventh congress in 1803.

48. Yes; but they do not accept or send any representative.

49. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, on July 4, 1826.

50. Charles Carroll. He lived fifty-six years after signing the Declaration. He died November 12, 1832.

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