1. Name the Western States. 2. Which lie north from the Ohio river?
3. Which south? 4. Which west from Mississippi river? 5. Which does
Mississippi river bound on the west? 6. What two large rivers run
through Kentucky and Tennessee?
7. The Territory which lies north and west from Missouri state
extends westward, to the Oregon Territory; what is it called? 8. What
Territory lies south from Missouri state? 9. What States south from
Tennessee?—[_For answer to this question refer to the United States._]
10. What State east? 11. What State lies east from Kentucky? 12. What
State east from Ohio? 13. What Territory lies north from Ohio and
Indiana? 14. What north from Illinois?
15. Of what State is Columbus the capital? 16. Is Ohio a mountainous
state? 17. What lake lies north? 18. What river on the south and
east? 19. On what river is Zanesville? 20. What joins Ohio river at
Portsmouth? 21. What river flows through the northwestern corner of the
State? 22. On what river is Athens?
23. What river flows into Lake Erie at Sandusky? 24. What joins the
Ohio at the southwest corner of the State? 25. What is the course of
the Miami river? 26. Of Ohio river?
27. What water communication is there between Cincinnati and Dayton?
28. What is the general course of the Ohio canal? 29. What towns in the
northern part of the State are near the course of the canal? 30. What
in the southern part? 31. To what town does a branch of the Ohio canal
run? 32. At what place does it communicate with Lake Erie?
33. What towns on Ohio river? 34. On what river is Columbus, and
in what part of the State is it? 35. Which way is Cincinnati from
Columbus? 36. Which is most westerly, Marietta, Cincinnati, or
Gallipolis? 37. Where is Steubenville? 38. On what river, and in what
part of the State, is Fort Defiance? 39. Which way is Jackson from
Jefferson?
40. What State does Lake Michigan bound (in part) on the north? 41.
Where is Fort Wayne? 42. What river forms part of the western boundary
of Indiana? 43. Which of the branches of the Illinois river has its
source in Indiana? 44. What are the branches of the Wabash? 45. How is
Indianapolis, the capital situated? 46. What towns on the Ohio river?
47. Which way is Vincennes from Indianapolis? 48. Connersville from
Vincennes? 49. Which way from Crawfordville is Jacksonboro’?
50. What lake separates Illinois from Michigan? 51. What three rivers
form the western, southern, and (in part) the eastern, boundaries of
Illinois? 52. Which is the largest river in Illinois? 53. What river in
the northwestern part of the State?
54. On what river is Vandalia, the capital? 55. Where is Kaskaskia?
56. Which way is Edwardsville from Vandalia? 57. How is Shawneetown
situated? 58. What town is on Lake Michigan? 59. In what part of the
State is Peoria? 60. Which way is McLeansboro’ from Jacksonville?
61. What mountains are between Kentucky and Virginia? 62. What river
rises in the eastern part of this State, and after passing through
Tennessee, flows north, into the Ohio? 63. Where is Licking river?
64. On what river is Frankfort, the capital? 65. Which way from
Frankfort to Maysville? 66. Which is more westerly, Henderson or
Louisville? 67. What town on Mississippi river? 68. Which is more
northwardly, Madisonville or Barbourville?
69. What mountains are between Tennessee and North Carolina? 70. What
range runs through the State? 71. What lake is in this State? 72. How
is it connected with Mississippi river? 73. Describe the course of the
Tennessee river. 74. What are the branches of the Tennessee river, and
where do they rise?
75. On what river is Nashville, the capital? 76. Which way from it
is Murfreesboro’? 77. In what part is Memphis? 78. Which is more
northwardly, Winchester or Knoxville? 79. Which is furthest north,
Washington, Munroe, or Jackson?
80. Of what state is Jefferson city the capital? 81. What mountains are
in that State? 82. What large river flows through the state? 83. Does
it flow west or east? 84. What river joins the Missouri at 15° long.
west from Washington? 85. What river in Missouri is of the same name as
one in New Hampshire and Massachusetts?
86. What are the principal towns on Mississippi river? 87. Which
is more northwardly, St. Louis or St. Charles? 88. Which is most
westwardly, Franklin, Jefferson, or Jackson?
89. Of what is Detroit the capital? 90. What lakes appear on this map
to border upon Michigan Territory? 91. What are some of the rivers?
_Note. For the whole shape of Michigan and Northwest Territories, the
learner must refer to the map of the United States, as neither of them
is fully exhibited on this map._
92. What is the latitude and longitude of Zanesville? 93. Of Vandalia?
94. How can a person travel by water from Cleveland to Dayton? 95.
Which is further north, Columbus or Indianapolis? 96. Frankfort or
Jefferson city? 97. Which is further east, Nashville or Vincennes? 98.
Which way from the capital of Ohio must you travel in order to pass
in a straight line through the capitals of two other of the western
States? 99. What Territory is north from Illinois? 100. Between what
parallels of latitude do the Western States lie?