QUESTIONS.
1. What is this lesson about? What is said of the period now reached?
2. How was North Carolina feeling the general impulse of improvement?
3. In what condition were the railroads?
4. How far west were the railroads reaching? Which of the roads was obtaining most travel?
5. What important railway is now mentioned? What was to be its extent?
6. Can you describe the passage of the "Railroad Bill" through the Legislature?
7. What charitable institutions were provided for at this session? Through whose instrumentality was the appropriation made for the Insane Asylum?
8. What devotion did Miss Dix give to this subject? What had been the disposition of the insane before this?
9. What is said of these internal improvements?
10. What other important law was enacted at this session? Can you tell something of the rights of married women previous to this time?
11. What were the provisions of the new law?
12. What was indicated by these acts of the State?
13. What reflections are made upon this era?