Excerpt from The Land We Live In: Questions and Answers on United States HistoryThe following series of questions and answers upon the history of the United States, from the colonial period down the year 1888, was prepared by the late-mr. W. I. Chase, with most assiduous care, and was completed by him in August, 1888. Mr. Chase died in 1889, and his plan of continuing this work so as to include the geography, civil government, institutions and resources of the United States as well as its history, has not yet been carried out. The great favor with which these historical questions have been received in pamphlet form has led the publishers to cdntinue their publication in more permanent shape as here' given. We have no hesitation in asserting that no such clear, concise and\truthful resume of our na tional history was ever presented before. Certain periods, that in most histories are, for political reasons, slurred over if'not unfairly presented, as the period immediately preced ing the civil war, and the reconstruction period, are hére described frankly and fully, and at the same time with such entire freedom from partisan bias, that no honest reader can wrest the account to cause for offense. Mr. Chase had an exceptional power of singling out the well-substantiated from the doubtful statements of history, and of transcribing the former clearly, Without blurring their outlines by the addition of personal or party opinions. No less noteworthy was his power of grouping facts, so as to show their relation to each other. Facts, he said, are mere dead timber, which in the rough is neither ornamental nor particularlypreface.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.