5. Write a report on the economic and commercial characteristics of one of the thirteen colonies, in the period preceding the Revolution. [See the chapters describing the condition of the separate colonies in 1765, in Lodge, English colonies, N. Y., Harper, 1881, $3.] 6. English imports of naval stores, and schemes to stimulate exports from America. [Lord, Industrial exper., part 2.] 7. Write a report on the commercial history of one of the island colonies, (_a_) Jamaica, or (_b_) Barbadoes. [See encyclopedia, and references there; R. Montgomery Martin, History of the British colonies, London, 1834, vol. 2, chap. 2, Jamaica; chap. 7, Barbadoes, chap. 16, West Indian commerce; Amos K. Fiske, West Indies, N. Y., Putnam, 1899, $1.50, chaps. 18-19, Jamaica; chap. 37, Barbadoes.] 8. History of the African trading companies. [Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sect. 194.] 9. History of the slave trade. [Cunningham, index, and references in his notes; Weeden, index; Encyc. Brit.] 10. The plantations, the Royal African Company and the slave trade, 1672-1680. [E. D. Collins, in Rep. of Amer. Hist. Assoc., 1900, Washington, 1901, vol. 1, pp. 139-192.] 11. History of the merchant navy; development of ship-building and navigation. [See the articles on the Navy, by W. Laird Clowes, Soc. Eng., vols. 3, 4, 5. The student should endeavor to extract from these articles, which are rather fragmentary, only those facts which bear on the merchant marine, and should guard against confusing this with the war navy.] 12. Write an essay on the colonial and commercial aspects of Cromwell’s foreign policy. [Reference may be made to the following, among the biographies of Cromwell: F. Harrison, Lond. 1888, chap. 13: Firth, N. Y. 1900, chap. 19; John Morley, N. Y. 1900, book 5, chap. 8; Roosevelt, N. Y. 1900, p. 225 ff. See also Frank Strong, The causes of Cromwell’s West Indian expedition, Amer. Hist. Review, Jan., 1899, 4: 228-245; George L. Beer, Cromwell’s economic policy, Polit. Sci. Quarterly, 1901, 16: 582-611; 1902, 17: 46-70.] 13. Of what country would ships have to be, according to the Navigation Acts, to carry: wool from Spain; gold from Africa; spices from India; furs from America? 14. The policy of the Navigation Acts and their effects. [Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sects. 204, 222.] 15. Rise of the port of Liverpool. [Encyc., and references there.] 16. Report on one of the three commercial treaties, of 1703, of 1713, and of 1786, as illustrating the policy of the period. [Hewins, English trade, chap. 5.] 17. Abuses of the customs duties, and the reform by the younger Pitt. [Lecky, Hist., chap. 16, Cabinet ed., 5: 295 ff.] 18. The commercial legislation of England and the American colonies, 1660-1760. [See the article with that title by W. J. Ashley, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1899-1900, 14: 1-29; republished in his Surveys, London., 1900.]