38. How long did the Philadelphia convention continue in session?
39. How did some of the delegates wish to deal with the great problem of the national government?
40. How did Washington convince the delegates of their duty?
41. By what means did the delegates at Philadelphia succeed in agreeing on a form of federal government?
42. What is a compromise? (Consult a large dictionary.)
43. What was the first compromise in framing the Constitution?
44. What was the second compromise in framing the Constitution?
45. What question about the slaves arose?
46. How was it decided to count the slaves?
47. How did Washington and others feel about the second compromise?
48. What was the cause of the third compromise?
50. What did Washington think of the Constitution?
51. What was Franklin's opinion of the Constitution?
52. When was the Constitution to become law?
53. To what two political parties did the Constitution give rise?
54. What did many of the people throughout the country think of the Constitution?
55. Which was the first state to sign the Constitution?
56. Why was the Fourth of July in 1788 so glorious?
57. Who was the first President, and who the first Vice President, of the new nation?
58. What did Gladstone say of the Constitution?
59. Why do we owe such a debt of gratitude to the builders of "the good ship Constitution"?
2. Why did we buy the good will of the Barbary pirates?
3. What is blackmail? (Consult a large dictionary.)
4. What did Thomas Jefferson think should be done concerning the Barbary pirates?
5. Who was sent to the Mediterranean Sea?
6. What was the exploit of the Enterprise?
7. What is a pasha? (Consult a large dictionary.)
8. What happened to the frigate Philadelphia and her crew?
9. What did Commodore Preble do when the Philadelphia was captured?
10. Why was Stephen Decatur chosen to destroy the Philadelphia?
11. What was Decatur's plan for destroying the Philadelphia?
12. What is a ketch? (Consult a large dictionary.)
13. How many men volunteered for the dangerous undertaking?
14. What kind of time did Decatur and his men have off the shore of Tripoli?
17. What was the object in dragging sails and buckets in the water?
18. How did Decatur deceive the pirate officer?
19. How did the pirates discover the Americans?