1. Describe the origin and development of the town-meeting in Michigan.
2. Describe the settling of southern Illinois.
3. Describe the settling of northern Illinois.
4. What difference in thought and feeling existed between these sections?
5. What systems of local government came into rivalry in Illinois, and why?
6. What compromise between them was put into the state constitution?
7. Which system, the town or the county, has shown the greater vitality, and why?
8. What obstacles has the town system to work against?
9. Show how the principle of local option in government has been applied in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Dakota.
10. What two grades of town government exist west of the Alleghanies?