Section 582. [poole’s Index and Continuations; Current Biographical

dictionaries.]

5. What is now the interstate commerce of the State in which you live? To what States does it export its products, what products of other States does it import? How does its commerce with other States compare with its foreign commerce in bulk and value? [Ask questions of railroad and steamship men; visit freight yards.]

6. Comparing the figures of sect. 584 with the figures for total exports, sect. 561, what do you guess formed the bulk of the exports from each State or port?

7. Write a brief commercial history of one of the cities named. [Local histories; Encyc.; commercial cyclopedias.]

8. Episodes of Boston commerce. [M. A. D. Howe, Atlantic Monthly, 1903, 91: 175-184.]

9. Prepare and study a graphic chart, sect. 586, and preserve it for comparison with later conditions.

10. The African slave trade. [Weeden, chap. 12; Abbot, chap. 3.]

11. What reasons occur to you why the Americans should have traded with England so much more than with other states of Europe?

12. History of the commerce of the colonies with the West Indies. [Pitman; Weeden or Bruce, Index, West Indies.]

13. Character of production and commerce in the West Indies at this time. [Pitman; Fiske.]

14. History of ship-building in the colonies. [Weeden, 252-267, 573-581; Wright, 23-42; Marvin, chaps. 1, 2.]

15. Pirates and privateers of the colonial period. [Weeden, chap. 9, 559-565; Abbot, chap. 5, Howard Pyle, The buccaneers.]

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See preceding chapter.