| HISTORY TOPICS. | CIVICS TOPICS. |
| A—Local Governments. | |
| Town Type in New England. | Town Organization of To-day. |
| Aristocratic County Type in the South. | County Organization in Southern States. |
| Combined Town and Democratic County Type in Middle Colonies. | Towns and Counties in all Western States. |
It is not intended that the Civics topics stated above shall be treated exhaustively; the mere fact of the existence of the organizations that correspond to the colonial types is the extent of the correlation at this point. (Reasons for this restriction will be stated later.) The important thing is that the pupil be taught not to associate these institutions exclusively with the localities in which they originated, but to regard them as the typical forms of organization of those different elements of our population which they carried, or rather under which they marched, westward.
| HISTORY TOPICS. | CIVICS TOPICS. |
| B—Colonial Governments. | |
| Colonial House of Representatives. | State House of Representatives, or Assembly. |
| Colonial Governor’s Council. | State Senate. |
| Colonial Governor and Courts. | State Governor and Courts. |
| Colonial Charter. | State Constitution. |
| C—British Empire. | |
| Control of Foreign Affairs, Peace and War, Indians, ungranted land, and Commerce by Parliament. | Control of same affairs by Congress. |
| Privy Council. | United States Supreme Court. |
(2) REVOLUTIONARY AND CRITICAL PERIODS.
| HISTORY TOPICS. | CIVICS TOPICS. |
| The Formation of State Governments and adoption of State Constitutions. | The Existing States and State Constitutions. |
| Continental Congresses and Articles of Confederation. | The Central Government. |
| The Impotence of Congress. | Our strong central powers. |
| Prominence of State Feeling. | The National spirit. |
| Attitude of Foreign Nations. | Position of the United States to-day. |
It will be noticed in (1) and (2) that the comparisons are between particular facts of our history and some of the more general features of our National government. The details of present conditions may not be understood by students who have not studied Civics separately.
(3) CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD.
Under the topics that follow, we find the history of our present National government, seen in the formation of the Constitution and the workings of the government thus formed. The natural correlation, then, is between the event (either in the Constitutional Convention or in our later history) and that part of the Constitution which thus came about, or which forms the basis for the action of the government described.
The historical topics are not arranged in strictly chronological order, but in the sequence in which they are usually treated. In most cases no mention has been made of events which show the working of the government under a clause of the Constitution that has once been included; for instance, not all the important treaties of our history are mentioned. Enough attention should be devoted to the clause when first mentioned to fix it in the mind of the pupil. In some instances, however, there is repetition of this kind, particularly where the interpretation has changed from time to time.