Excerpt from A Guide to the Study of the History and the Constitution of the United States The object of this book is to aid the teacher in imparting, and to guide the student in acquiring, a knowledge of the history and the Constitution of the United States. It is designed to be used as a supplementary work in connection with any text-book on United States history. Young persons are incapable of distinguishing between important and unimportant historical facts. It is therefore the teacher's duty so to direct the student's work that his energies may be employed upon those things that are most worthy of his attention. It is plain that the topical method of teaching history is best adapted to this end; but when this method is adopted, a supplementary work containing the topics is needed. But even after the pupil has an important topic assigned, he may, through misdirected effort, waste much time in considering it. For the purpose of offering him some assistance, the topics in the first part of this book are subdivided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.