3. Name the prominent events of Mr. Tyler's administration. 4. Give a sketch of the history of Iowa.

5. Give a sketch of Texas.

6. Who were candidates for the presidency in 1844? Who was chosen ?

XVIII. POLK'S ADMINISTRATION. 1. When was Mr. Polk inaugurated? Name the prominent events of his administration. 2. Death of General Jackson.

3. Give an account of the founding of the Smithsonian Institute.

How

4. Of what was the admission of Texas into the Union a cause? What movement was General Taylor ordered to make? did Mexico consider the act?

5. When did General Taylor take post at Point Isabel? Where did he next build a fort? What was the first conflict of the war?

6. Why did General Taylor return to Point Isabel? What occurred at Fort Brown during his absence? Where did Taylor meet the Mexican force on the 8th of May? What was the result? What two officers did the Americans lose?

7. When and where was General Taylor's second battle with the Mexicans? Give the particulars. When was Matamoras taken by the Americans?

8. What plan of operations was formed, after General Taylor had taken Matamoras? Towards what city in the interior of Mexico did General Taylor proceed in August? Give an account of the capture of Monterey.

9. What orders were received by General Taylor on the 13th of October? How were the American forces stationed to carry on the war?

10. What movement was made by General Kearney on the 25th of September? Why did he alter his mind? Relate the exploit of Colonel Doniphan.

11. What intelligence did General Taylor receive at Agua Nueva? To what place did he fall back to await the approach of Santa Anna? Give particulars.

Where was the

12. What important operations were confided to General Scott? Describe the siege and capture of Vera Cruz. next opposition encountered by General Scott? Anna.

Flight of Santa

13. What three places were next captured by General Scott? How long did he remain at La Puebla? When and with what forces did General Scott reach San Augustine? What battles soon followed?

14. What did General Scott endeavor to do while at Churubusco? What posts were stormed and carried by General Worth? What followed next? When was the American flag displayed upon the national palace in Mexico?

15. When and where was a treaty of peace made? When was it ratified by the Mexican Congress? What were its most important provisions?

16. Narrate the time and circumstances of the death of John Quincy Adams.

17. When was Wisconsin admitted into the Union? Give a sketch of its history.

18. Who succeeded Mr. Polk as president of the United States? Who was made vice president?

XIX. GENERAL TAYLOR'S ADMINISTRATION.

1. When did

General Taylor take the oath of office? What events occurred in his administration?

2. When did President Taylor die? From what cause? succeeded him in office?

3. What is remarked on a provision of the constitution?

4. Name the chief events of Mr. Fillmore's administration.

Who

5. Who were candidates for the presidency in 1852 ? Which received a majority of votes?

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

OF

AMERICAN HISTORY.

CAREFULLY COMPILED.

923. Discovery and settlement of Greenland by the Icelanders.

1435. Columbus born at Genoa, in Italy.

1492. Columbus discovers the Islands of Guanahani, Cuba, and

Hayti.

1493. Columbus discovers Porto Rico.

1494. Columbus discovers Jamaica.

1496. Tobacco discovered in Hayti.

1497. North America discovered by the Cabots at Labrador.

1498. Columbus discovers S. America at Guiana and Venezuela.

1499. South America visited by Americus Vespucius.

1500. The Amazon at its mouth discovered by Pinçon.

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Columbus sent back to Spain in chains by Bovadilla. 1502. Columbus discovers the Bay of Honduras; his last voyage. 1506. Columbus dies at Valladolid, in Spain.

1510. First colony planted on the main land at the Isthmus of Darien, by Balboa.

1511. Velasquez conquers the natives of Cuba.

1512. Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.

1513. Balboa discovers the South Sea.

1516. Rio de la Plata discovered by De Solis.

1517. Cordova explores Yucatan.

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1518. Grijalva discovers the southern part of Mexico. 1519. Cortez invades Mexico; lands at Vera Cruz.

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Commencement of the first voyage round the world.

1520. Death of Montezuma, king of Mexico.

1521. Death of Guatemozin, and conquest of Mexico by Cortez.

1524. Verrazani explores the coast of North America.

1525. Pizarro invades Peru.

1526. Sebastian Cabot explores the La Plata.

1533. Lima in Peru founded by Pizarro.

1535. Cartier explores the River St. Lawrence.

1537. Chili discovered by Almegro.

1539. De Soto lands in Florida.

1540. Orellana explores the Amazor from Peru to the Atlantic. 1541. De Soto discovers the Mississippi River.

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Cartier builds a fort near the pressat site of Quebec.

1545. Silver mines of Potosi discovered.

1549. Roberval sails for Canada with a colony.

1562. Coligny attempts to found a colony of French Protestants in Florida.

1565. St. Augustine founded by Spaniards.

1584. Sir Walter Raleigh despatches two vessels to Virginia; the name given by Queen Elizabeth.

1585. He attempts to found a colony at Roanoke.

1586. Discovery of Davis's Straits.

1602. Gosnold discovers and names Cape Cod, and Elizabeth and Martha's Vineyard islands.

1603. Coast of Maine visited by Martin Pring.

1605. Port Royal, Acadie, [Nova Scotia,] founded by the French under De Monts.

1606. James I. grants North Virginia to the Plymouth Company, and South Virginia to the London Company.

1607. The Plymouth Company send George Popham to found the "Sagadahoc Colony," at the mouth of the Kennebec, in North Virginia.

66 The London Company send Christopher Newport to found the "Jamestown Colony," in South Virginia.

1608. French settlement at Quebec founded by Champlain.

Pocahontas saves the life of John Smith, Virginia.

1609. Hudson River discovered by Henry Hudson.

1610. Delaware Bay named in honor of Lord de la War, who visited the bay at that time, and died on his vessel at its

mouth.

1613. Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.

1614. New York settled by the Dutch on Manhattan Island, (now New York) and at Fort Orange, (Albany.)

1616. Tobacco first cultivated in Virginia.

1619. First colonial assembly in Virginia, June.

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1620. Commencement of negro slavery at Jamestown, Virginia. The Puritans in the "Mayflower" set sail from Southampton, England, for America, Sept. 16.

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The "Mayflower" anchors in Cape Cod harbor, Nov. 21. John Carver chosen first governor of Plymouth colony, before leaving their vessel.

The "Pilgrim Fathers" land on Plymouth Rock, in Massachusetts, Dec. 22.

1622. Massacre of 347 men, women, and children of the Virginia colony by the Indians, April 1.

1623. Maine and New Hampshire settled by the English. 66 New Jersey settled by the Dutch and Swedes. 1627. Delaware settled by Swedes and Finns.

1628. Salem founded by John Endicott.

1629. Charlestown founded by Massachusetts Bay colony. 1630. Boston, Cambridge, Roxbury, and Dorchester founded. John Winthrop first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, 1633. First house built in Connecticut, at Windsor.

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1634. Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore.

1635. Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield settled.

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Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts.

1636. Providence, Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams. 1637. Destruction of the Pequod Indians by Captain Mason, in Connecticut.

66 Mrs. Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts.

1638. New Haven founded by Eaton and Davenport.

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Harvard College, Cambridge, founded.

(640. Montreal founded.

1643. Union of the New England colonies.

1645. Clayborne's rebellion in Maryland.

1649. Charles I., king of England, beheaded by order of Parlia

ment.