1. Give an outline of the condition of Virginia after the Civil War,
and of the steps that led to the appointment of a provisional
governor.
2. Why was she refused readmission into the Union, and under what
rule was she placed by Congress?
3. Why did the administration of the government fall into the hands
of "Carpet-baggers" and "Scallawags," and what is said of their
rule?
4. When did Virginia reënter the Union, and what change did this
bring in the administration of her government?
5. What object did the United States government have in establishing
the Freedmen's Bureau, and what false expectation did it
cause among the negroes?
6. How long had the plantation system existed, and what caused its
destruction?
7. What spirit have the Virginians always shown, and how did it
manifest itself during the Reconstruction period?
8. How did General Lee, by his example, keep many Virginians from
leaving the state? How and where did he spend his last years?
9. Give an outline of the progress of education from colonial days to
the present time.
10. What did the state debt cause among the people, and when was it
finally settled?
11. Give the history of the present Confederate museum at Richmond.
12. Give the resources of the state, and tell what Matthew Fontaine
Maury says.
13. In what ways is the progress of the state shown?
14. Explain the reason why literature did not flourish before the Civil
War, and give its present outlook.
15. In what does the Old Dominion especially honor some of her
distinguished sons?
16. What qualities do the Virginians continue to display, and what is
predicted of their future?
