(Required.) 10. Write brief notes upon five of the following topics: Act of Supremacy, Asquith, Boers, Coffee-houses, Corn Laws, Methodists, Statute of Labourers, Triple Entente. PART VI (Answer one part only of question 11.) 11. (a) Mark on map 111b (a) the names and boundaries of the continental lands in English hands in 1360 A.D., and (b) five of the following places: Crecy, Poitiers, Blenheim, La Hogue, Trafalgar, Heligoland, Mons. (b) Mark on map 1206 the name and location of eight of the following places: England's oldest university, William the Conqueror's first battle in England, A victory of the Scots over the English in the reign of Edward II, Church Council in 664 A.D., An important naval base on the south coast of England, An important road in Roman Britain, An important cathedral town in England, An important cotton manufacturing town in England, 1. Give an account of the settlement and history of Massachusetts Bay Colony to the middle of the seventeenth century. 2. Sketch the career of George Washington before the outbreak of the American Revolution. 3. Give the substance of two acts of the British Parliament in the decade before the American Revolution which contributed to cause the revolt of the colonies. How did the colonists show their resentment toward each of these acts? PART II (Answer one question.) 4. Sketch the public career of one of the following men, showing how his life has influenced the history of our country: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, William H. Seward. 5. How was the foreign trade of the United States affected by conditions in Europe during Jefferson's administration? How did his administration attempt to protect this trade? 6. What were four important steps in the development of the slavery controversy from the end of the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil War? Explain the significance of each of the four. PART III (Answer two questions.) 7. Tell the story of the Gettysburg campaign. What was its significance? 8. What were the causes and results of the war between the United States and Spain? 9. Compare the character of the immigration into the United States during the decade 1850-1860 with that during the decade 1900-1910. What restrictions are placed upon immigration into the United States at the present time? 10. What policy in regard to the Western Hemisphere was outlined by Monroe in 1823? On what occasions since the Civil War has the United States applied this policy in its foreign relations? (SEE NEXT PAGE) (Answer one question.) 11. By what provisions does the Constitution of the United States attempt to make the Senate "a more permanent, conservative, and dignified body" than the House of Representatives? How and when have the original provisions in regard to the senate been modified by amendment? 12. Could a president be elected by a minority of the total number of persons voting at a presidential election? Give your reasons. PART V (Required.) 13. Write brief notes on five of the following topics: Caucus, Cumberland Road, The Federalist, Mugwump, Pan-American Movement, Progressive Party, Rough Riders, Tippecanoe. 14. On map 1756: PART VI (Answer two parts only of question 14.) (a) Name and shade the slave states which did not secede from the Union at the time of the Civil War. (b) Indicate the routes traversed by De Soto, Coronado, and Lewis and Clark. (c) Name and locate four of the following places: Place of Burgoyne's surrender, Place of John Brown's raid on federal property, First permanent English settlement in America, First state west of the Mississippi admitted into the Union, One state west of the Rocky Mountains which voted for Taft in Thursday, June 21 Comprehensive Examination HISTORY 9 a.m.-12 m. Selecting one of the five divisions, answer fully six questions as there required. Take about two hours of your time for these six questions. If you have studied in your school course only one of these divisions, answer one, or two, or three additional questions from that division. If, on the other hand, you have studied two or more of these divisions, answer three additional questions not in the division first selected. Give dates, or approximate dates, where they are needed. DIVISION I: ANCIENT HISTORY GROUP I (Answer one question only.) 1. Write fully on any two of the following persons: Cyrus the Great, Themistocles, Plato, Aratus. 2. Tell the story of Sparta's struggle with the Persian Empire (400-387 B.C.). GROUP II (Answer one question only.) 3. Write fully on any two of the following persons: Hannibal, Pompey, Tiberius, Justinian. 4. Sketch the history of Rome from the battle of Pharsalus (48 B.C.) to the battle of Actium (31 B.C.). GROUP III (Answer one question only.) 5. Discuss the accuracy of the following statement: "The Romans were never a commercial people." 6. Discuss the accuracy of the following statement: "No single personality, excepting the carpenter's son of Nazareth, has done so much to make the world of civilization we live in what it is as Alexander of Macedon." GROUP IV (Answer two parts only of question 7.) 7. Mark on map 1136 or 1356 (giving both location and name): a) the routes of the Ten Thousand, of Xerxes' invasion of Greece, of Hannibal's march from Spain to Cannae; locate on the map the chief battlefields on the line of each route; b) the frontier of the Carthaginian Empire at the outbreak of the First Punic War, the frontier of the Roman Empire at the end of the Second Punic War, the frontier between Rome and the northern barbarians at the accession of Hadrian; c) Lusitania, Assyria, Moesia, the migration of the Visigoths. (SEE NEXT PAGE) (Answer question 8 and either 9 or 10.) 8. Write notes on five of the following topics: Palaeolithic (Rough Stone) Age, Assyrian Atrocities, the History of Herodotus, the differences between the Greek and Roman Religion, comitia tributa, the Praetorian Prefect, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. 9. Name with a descriptive note the chief works of Greek sculpture that you could identify if they were shown to you. Tell to what period each belongs. 10. Name with a descriptive note the chief works of Roman architecture that you could identify if they were shown to you. Tell to what period each belongs. DIVISION II: MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY GROUP I (Answer one question only.) 1. Write fully on any two of the following persons: Peter the Hermit, Galileo, Charles the Fifth of Germany, Loyola. 2. State the causes for the rise of the Italian cities. Venice? Florence? Into what two great GROUP II For what was Genoa noted? political parties did their (Answer one question only.) 3. Why was the "Holy Alliance" formed? Who were its members? What did it attempt to do in Italy? in Spain? in America? 4. By what means did Richelieu create a strong France? 5. Give an account of the wars Russia has fought in her endeavor to get seaports and the results of each war. GROUP III (Answer one question only.) 6. How do you account for the "armed peace" of Europe 1878-1914 ? 7. Compare the work of Cavour with that of Bismarck. GROUP IV (Answer two parts only of question 8.) 8. Mark on map 826 or 1126 (giving both location and name): a) the Empire of Charlemagne after 800; b) the countries under Napoleon's control 1810; c) Waterloo, Sedan, Campo-Formio, Clermont, Aix-la-Chapelle. (SEE NEXT PAGE) |