1. Trace the beginnings of railroad transportation in your section,
and describe the effect of improved methods of transportation upon the
ability of different communities in your section to coöperate with one
another. (Consult local histories.)

2. To what extent does the newspaper help you to understand the
character and ideals of individuals beyond your community?

3. Contrast the telephone and the postal service as influencing the
development of the coöperative spirit in the city. In rural districts.

4. To what extent would improved methods of transportation and
communication lead to a closer coöperation between the rural and urban
districts in your state?

5. To what extent has the economic interdependence of different
members of your community led to a better understanding? To a closer
identity of interests?


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6. Difficulties of travel in colonial times. (Crawford, _Social Life
in Old New England_, chapter _x_.)

7. Postal facilities in the colonial period. (Bogart, _Economic
History of the United States_, pages 82-83.)

8. Diversity of economic interests among the colonies. (Bogart and
Thompson, _Readings in the Economic History of the United States_,