1. Parties and party splits.

2. Issue.

3. Candidates.

4. The Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 143-9. Cent. Magazine, XXXIV. 664–70, 672, 674, 877; XXXV. 71–2.

5. The result of the election.

f. Secession.

Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 435-6. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 207-10. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 29-31. Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 217-21, 242, 252-7. Johnston's U. S. 662. Cent. Magazine, XXXIV. 830-6, 844-50.

1. The origin and growth of the state-rights doctrines. Review Jefferson's doctrines, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, nullification, state sovereignty.

2. Causes of the secession of 1860.

Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 338, 340-3. Johnston's U. S. 658, 662.

3. How did these states become a part of the Union? How did they secede, or try to get out of the Union? Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 329-30, 333.

What were the arguments for the right to secede?

4. Which states seceded before March 4, 1861?

Greeley's Amer. Conflict, 351. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 207-9, and above.

5. What did the Buchanan administration do about secession? Johnston's U. S. 296. Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 437-8. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 355, 369, 371, 396–7. Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 222-6, 239-40, 268-9. Cent. Magazine, XXIII. 289; XXXIV. 836-40, 843.

g. The Confederate government.

Johnston's U. S. 656-62. Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 440-1. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 414-18. Amer. Ency., under Confederate States.

1- When organized?

2. Where organized?

3. What are the main points of difference between the Constitution adopted by the Confederate States and that of the United States?

4. The leading men in the new government.

h. Resources and preparation of the Confederate States for war. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 32-42. Johnston's U. S. 663. Montgomery's Amer. Hist. 321-2. Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 441. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 440-2. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 212.

1. In general.

2. Locate the following forts and arsenals: Which ones were held by the Confederate States when Lincoln was inaugurated?

Montgomery's Amer. Hist. 315. Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 286.

ARSENALS AND ARMORIES. - In 1860 there were twenty-three arsenals and armories, many of which were located either within the Confederate States, as at Baton Rouge, Augusta (Georgia), Fort Monroe, Little Rock, Charleston (South Carolina), San Antonio, etc., or at points easily accessible, as at Harper's Ferry and St. Louis.

Further, before actual secession took place, the members of Buchanan's Cabinet took advantage of their position to transfer to southern arsenals a large part of the available supplies, at such northern depots as Springfield, etc. Johnston's Ency., under Arsenals.

i. The regular army in 1860.

1. Organization of the regular army.

Andrews' Manual of Const. 123.

2. Officers of the regular army.

Andrews' Manual of Const. 123.

3. Size of the army in 1860.

Condition of the army.

Montgomery's Amer. Hist. 322. Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 637. Johnston's U, S. Hist, and Const. 214. Cent, Magazine, XXXV. 717.

4. The militia.

Andrews' Manual of Const. 126-7.

Who constitute the militia of the United States?

5. For what may the militia be called out? By whom?

6. How are men drafted?

By what authority?

Andrews' Manual of Const. 122.

j. The navy in 1860.

Any Ency.

1. Size of the navy.

Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 552.

2. Location of ships of war and naval supplies.

Johnston's U. S. 685. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 602-3.

XXV. Lincoln's administration.

Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 418-22. Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 277 +.

a. Lincoln's inauguration.

Address in Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 422-6, and Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 278-84.

b. Lincoln's Cabinet.

Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 284-5. Johnston's Politics, 306.

c. The difficulties which the administration had to meet.

Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 279–81, 289–91. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 214.

d. The Civil War, 1861.

1. The fall of Fort Sumter.

Johnston's U. S. 669. Morris's Half Hours, II. 372. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 42-7; map, 42. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 443-9; map, 445. Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 294-301. Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 442-7. Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 708-16.

a. Attempts to relieve and defend it.

Effect at the South; at the North.

2. Events immediately consequent upon the surrender of Sumter.

Blaine's Twenty Years of Cong. I. 297-301, 314. Johnston's U. S. 670. Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 447-50. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 453. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 216-18. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 48. Johnston's Politics, 188-9.

Johnston's U. S. 670, 673-4, 680. Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 721-901, and above. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 602-3.

b. Which states refused the President's call for volunteers? Johnston's U. S. 674. Johnston's U. S. Hist. and Const. 210, 216-17. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 458-9.

c. What attitude towards the Confederate States did foreign nations take?

Johnston's U. S. 675, and references on p. 122.

d. The answer of the North to the President's call.

Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 454-5. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 49-51, and above.

3. The Baltimore riot.

Bryant's Popular Hist. IV. 447-8. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 462-4, 469–70. Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 52-3. Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 908-13.

4. The Norfolk navy-yard.

Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation, 57-60. Greeley's Amer. Conflict, I. 473-6; map, 474. Cent. Magazine, XXXV. 918-19.

5. The first Virginia campaign.

Greeley's Amer. Conflict, 532 +. Cent. Magazine, XXX. 113, 606+; XXVI. 458.