Introductory American History

QUESTIONS 1. What does the emigrant from Europe bring to America besides his baggage? 2. Why are all Americans emigrants? 3. What did the earliest emigrants from Europe to America bring with them? 4. Which do you think the more useful invention--the telephone or the art of writing? Who invented this art? Find Egypt on the map. How did Egyptian writing look? 5. Why was it a help to Columbus that gunpowder and guns were invented before he discovered America? 6. When did the Christian Era begin? What is meant by Ancient Times? By the Middle Ages? By Modern Times? In what Times was the art of writing invented? In what Times was the compass invented? In what Times was the telephone invented? EXERCISES 1. Collect from illustrated papers, magazines, or advertising folders, pictures of ocean steamships. Collect pictures of sailing ships, ships used now and those used long ago. 2. Collect from persons who have recently come to this country stories of how they traveled from Europe to America, and from ports like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia to where they now live. 3. Let each boy and girl in the schoolroom point out on the map the European country from which his parents or his grandparents or his forefathers came. 4. Let each boy and girl make a list of the holidays which his forefathers had in the fatherland or mother country. Let each find out the manner in which the holidays were kept. Let each tell the most interesting hero story from among the stories of the mother country or fatherland. Let each find out whether the tools used in the old home were like the tools his parents use here.
QUESTIONS 1. How long did it take the Romans to conquer Italy? How long to conquer the lands about the Mediterranean? In what Times did all this happen? 2. Why did the Carthaginians and the Romans fight? What did Hannibal promise his father? What sort of a leader was Hannibal? 3. How did Hannibal reach Italy? How did he win the battle of the Trebia? 4. Why was he unable to force the Romans to yield? 5. How long before the beginning of the Christian Era did this war with Hannibal close? How long after the battle of Marathon, and after the death of Alexander the Great? 6. What other lands did the Romans conquer? How did they rule these colonies? 7. Were they better for the wealth and power they gained? What became of many of the Italian farmers? Where did the Romans get their slaves? 8. What good things did they learn from the Greeks? What was the Graeco-Roman world? EXERCISES 1. On an outline map of the lands around the Mediterranean mark on each land, Spain, Greece, northern Africa, Asia Minor, and Egypt, the dates at which the Romans conquered each, finding these dates in any brief Roman or Ancient History--Botsford, Myers, Morey, West, Wolfson.