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QUESTIONS.

What were the Milan and Berlin Decrees? Pages 415, 432.

In what connection was Jefferson responsible for the dollar as the unit of United States money? Page 307.

3. What was Jefferson's idea of national defense and army maintenance? Page 398.

4. Why did Jefferson suggest the removal of the Military Academy from West Point to Washington? Page 433.

5. When did the President suggest a special militia of seamen to man naval vessels in emergencies? Page 416.

6. Why did Jefferson forbid British armed vessels to enter our harbors? Pages 414, 419.

7. What flagrant violation of our maritime rights was undertaken by Great Britain? Page 415.

8. Upon what foundation did Jefferson hope national education might be established? Page 398.

9. What reasons were given for the Government purchase of ore lands from the Cherokee Indians? Page 431.

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What was Jefferson's Indian Policy? Page 340.

What advantages came to the Government from the acquisition of the salt springs on the Wabash River? Page 342.

What national misfortune helped the establishment of manufactories in the United States? Page 443.

SUGGESTIONS.

Jefferson's conception of important rights and duties is clearly set forth in his first Inaugural Address, page 309, especially in the latter part, page 311.

On the question of expansion, Jefferson's views are forcefully set forth in connection with the Louisiana Purchase. Pages 346, 348, 350.

Read Jefferson's recommendations in the matter of the militia and the standing army. Page 317.

The Louisiana Purchase was made during Jefferson's administration—a profoundly important step in American history. Pages 346, 348, 350. (See Louisiana Purchase, Encyclopedic Index.)

Read Jefferson's Foreign Policy. Pages 311, 346, 349.

NOTE.

For further suggestion on Jefferson's administration, see Jefferson, Thomas, Encyclopedic Index.

By reading the Foreign Policy of each President, and by scanning the messages as to the state of the nation, a thorough knowledge of the history of the United States will be acquired from the most authentic sources; because, as has been said, "Each President reviews the past, depicts the present and forecasts the future of the nation."

James Madison

March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1817

SEE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX.

The Encyclopedic Index is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key that unlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arranged brief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the United States.

Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subject referred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each article the official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that you may readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information. Next to the possession of knowledge is the ability to turn at will to where knowledge is to be found.