THE WAUPACA POST

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Examination Questions

 

            QUESTIONS ON HISTORY USED IN THE TEACHER’S EXAMINATION IN WAUPACA COUNTY FOR THE SPRING OF 1884.

 

1. Define the term of “Reconstruction” and state the different views of the President and Congress regarding it.
2. Tabulate the principal acts of each in the prosecution of his plan of reconstruction.
3. Give a brief history of the impeachment of President Johnson.
4. Give a short account of the origin and the provision of the Treaty of Washington.
5. Give an account of the decisions or awards made in pursuance of this treaty.
6. Outline President Grant’s Indian Policy and sketch the difficulties with the Modocs and the Sioux.
7. Give an account of the Burlingame Treaty and its subsequent modification.
8. State some of the effects of paper money and give the provisions of the Special Resumption Act.
9. State what you understand by the Civil Service Reform, and outline its history since the election of President Grant.
10. With what foreign power has the United States recently had controversies and why?

 

1. Give an account of the Electorial Commission of 1876-7.
2. Write of the labor riots of 1877.
3. What change of policy regarding the South occurred at the beginning of President Hayes’ administration, and why?
4. Give a brief narrative of the Credit Mobilier Investigation.
5. Narrate the facts respecting the Salary Grab.
6. Write a history of the Grangers.
7. Give the facts concerning the laying of the Atlantic Cable.
8. Write of Pacific Railway construction.
9. What states and territories were organized between 1860 and 1870?
10. When and how was silver demonetized?  Give a brief account of the purpose and results of the international monetary conference of 1881.