The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture. Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum, which he founded in Philadelphia. The world's first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum's most popular display was the skeleton of a huge, extinct elephant, which Peale _ on a New York farm in 1801. Three of Peale's seventeen children were also famous artists. Paphaelle Peale often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and portraits. James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures . His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What was the Peale family occupation?
2. What is Charles Wilson Peale known best for?
3. How many figures are listed?
4. Is John Adams one of them?
5. How many paintings of George Washington did he paint?
6. Who did he fool with his life-like painting?
7. Who was depicted in that artwork?
8. What were their names?
9. Did Peale paint when he was elderly?
10. Why not?
11. Why?
12. Where was that located?
13. Was it the first art museum for ordinary people?
14. What else was there besides paintings?
15. What science displays were there?
16. Was there an elephant skeleton there?
17. Did people like to see it?
18. Who many children did he have?
19. And how many were artists?
20. What were Paphaelle's subjects?
21. Where did Rembrandt Peale study?
Answer: 1. they were artists
2. his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution.
3. Three
4. No
5. more than 12
6. George Washington
7. his sons
8. Raphaelle and Titian
9. No
10. he gave up painting in his middle age
11. he devoted his life to the Peale museum
12. Philadelphia
13. Yes
14. natural science
15. displays of animals in their natural settings
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. seventeen
19. . Three
20. still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese
21. under his father

Problem: Chapter I. Retirement From Leadership. (1874-1875)

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"I am too old, O king, and slow to stir; so bid thou one of the younger men here do these things."

A member of the great government of 1868, in a letter to one of his family, gave an account of the final meeting of the cabinet:

_Feb. 17, 1874._I doubthe sayswhether I ever passed a more eventful evening than yesterday. The whole cabinet was assembled. We resolved after full discussion of pros and cons, and some slight difference of opinion, to resign at once. After which came the startling announcement that Gladstone would no longer retain the leadership of the liberal party, nor resume it, unless the party had settled its differences. He will not expose himself to the insults and outrages of 1866-8, and he has a keen sense of the disloyalty of the party during the last three years. He will sit as a private member and occasionally speak for himself, but he will not attend the House regularly, nor assume any one of the functions of leader. He does this not from anger, but because he says that it is absolutely necessary to party action to learn that all the duties and responsibilities do not rest on the leaders, but that followers have their obligations too. As a consequence of this Cardwell retires to the House of Lords. He will not take the leadership, nor will he consent to serve under any one but Gladstone. He is too old, he says. Lowe protests against the anarchical experiment, and talks of Hartington as leader. As neither Lowe, nor Bright, nor Goschen, nor Forster is in a position to act as leader, it may come to this, so that the liberal front benches of the two Houses will be entirely remodelled.(309)
1. What were they a member of?
2. What did they write?
3. To whom?
4. What was it about?
5. What was it dated?
6. Was the entire cabinet gathered together?
7. What was the full discussion about?
8. Who would not be the head of the liberal party any longer?
9. How long had he had a sense of disloyality?
10. What did Lowe protest against?
11. Who do they talk about becoming the leader?
Answer: 1. the great government of 1868
2. a letter
3. one of his family
4. an account of the final meeting of the cabinet
5. Feb. 17, 1874
6. yes
7. to resign
8. Gladstone
9. the last three years
10. the anarchical experiment
11. Hartington

question: James II and VII (14 October 1633 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685 until he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He was the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland.

The second surviving son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II. Members of Britain's Protestant political elite increasingly suspected him of being pro-French and pro-Catholic and of having designs on becoming an absolute monarch. When he produced a Catholic heir, a son called James Francis Edward, leading nobles called on his Protestant son-in-law and nephew William III of Orange to land an invasion army from the Dutch Republic, which he did in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James fled England (and thus was held to have abdicated). He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary II and her husband, William III. James made one serious attempt to recover his crowns from William and Mary when he landed in Ireland in 1689. After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France. He lived out the rest of his life as a pretender at a court sponsored by his cousin and ally, King Louis XIV.
1. when was the Glorious Revolution?
2. which James fled to England?
3. when was James II born?
4. who defeated the Jacobites?
5. who was the father of James VII?
6. who took the throne when Charles I died?
7. what happened to Charles II?
8. when did James VII rule Scotland?
9. what did members of Britain's Poretestant elite suspect James II of?
10. who was his cousin?
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answer:
1. 1688
2. James Francis Edward
3. 14 October 1633
4. Williamites
5. Charles I
6. Charles II
7. death
8. 6 February 1685 until 1688
9. being pro-French
10. King Louis XIV