269. Of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions. Of political affairs. 270. Who was elected President? Give a general review of the fourth year of the war. 271. Describe the situation at the opening of the year 1865. Sherman's march through the Carolinas. 272. Its result. What was the situation at Richmond? Describe the attack on Fort Steadman. Why was it made? 273. Its effect? Describe the battle of Five Forks. Its effect. The capture of Petersburg and Richmond. 274. The pursuit of Lee. His surrender. 275, 276. The terms. Its effect. Fate of Davis. The cost of the war. The assassination of Lincoln. 277. What State was added during this epoch? SIXTH EPOCH. 281. Who became President on the death of Lincoln? Give an account of the life of Johnson. What was the size of the two armies at the close of the war? What did their peaceful discharge prove? 282. What do you mean by "reconstruction"? What was the reconstruction policy of Johnson? What is the Thirteenth Amendment? 283. What was the condition of the public finances? What was the reconstruction policy of Congress? Result of this clashing between Congress and the President? On what conditions were the seceded States finally readmitted to their former position in the Union? 284. Why was Johnson impeached? Its result? What is the Fourteenth Amendment? What Indian war now arose? How was it terminated? Give an account of the French interference in Mexico. How did it end? 285. Give an account of the laying of the Atlantic cable. 286. What territory was added to the United States? Of what value? Give an account of the Fenian excitement in 1866. 287. Of the treaty with China. What State was admitted soon after the close of the Civil War? Who were the Presidential candidates? Who was elected eighteenth President? 288. Give an account of the Pacific Railroad, and its value to the country. What new railroad is building? What is the climate in the far north along the Mississippi Valley and the Pacific coast? Extent of the public lands granted? What is the Fifteenth Amendment? 289-292. What was the population of the United States in 1870? Was the country recovering from the effects of the war? What great fires happened in '71 and '72? What difficulty arose with England? What was the High Commission? Give some account of Santo Domingo, and its application to be annexed to the United States. What difficulty occurred with Cuba? What candidates for the presidency were nominated in 1873? Who was chosen? Give some account of Horace Greeley. 293-295. Describe the contest with the Modoc Indians. What was the Credit Mobilier? What was the cause of the "Panic of '73"? Name the Centennial observances of '75. Describe the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Give an account of the "Custer Massacre." Who were nominated for the presidency in '77? 296. What was the Joint Electoral Commission? What questions agitated the country at that time?