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and the
Mexican War 276 The Pacific Coast and Utah 284 Summary of
Western Development and National Politics 292

PART V. SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND
RECONSTRUCTION
XIII. THE RISE OF THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM 295 The Industrial
Revolution 296 The Industrial Revolution and National Politics 307
XIV. THE PLANTING SYSTEM AND NATIONAL POLITICS 316
Slavery--North and South 316 Slavery in National Politics 324 The
Drift of Events toward the Irrepressible Conflict 332
XV. THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 344 The Southern
Confederacy 344 The War Measures of the Federal Government 350
The Results of the Civil War 365 Reconstruction in the South 370
Summary of the Sectional Conflict 375

PART VI. NATIONAL GROWTH AND
WORLD POLITICS
XVI. THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EVOLUTION OF THE
SOUTH 379 The South at the Close of the War 379 The Restoration of
White Supremacy 382 The Economic Advance of the South 389
XVII. BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
401 Railways and Industry 401 The Supremacy of the Republican Party
(1861-1885) 412 The Growth of Opposition to Republican Rule 417
XVIII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT WEST 425 The
Railways as Trail Blazers 425 The Evolution of Grazing and
Agriculture 431 Mining and Manufacturing in the West 436 The
Admission of New States 440 The Influence of the Far West on
National Life 443
XIX. DOMESTIC ISSUES BEFORE THE COUNTRY (1865-1897)
451 The Currency Question 452 The Protective Tariff and Taxation
459 The Railways and Trusts 460 The Minor Parties and Unrest 462
The Sound Money Battle of 1896 466 Republican Measures and
Results 472
XX. AMERICA A WORLD POWER (1865-1900) 477 American
Foreign Relations (1865-1898) 478 Cuba and the Spanish War 485
American Policies in the Philippines and the Orient 497 Summary of
National Growth and World Politics 504

PART VII. PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY
AND THE WORLD WAR
XXI. THE EVOLUTION OF REPUBLICAN POLICIES (1901-1913)
507 Foreign Affairs 508 Colonial Administration 515 The Roosevelt
Domestic Policies 519 Legislative and Executive Activities 523 The

Administration of President Taft 527 Progressive Insurgency and the
Election of 1912 530
XXII. THE SPIRIT OF REFORM IN AMERICA 536 An Age of
Criticism 536 Political Reforms 538 Measures of Economic Reform
546
XXIII. THE NEW POLITICAL DEMOCRACY 554 The Rise of the
Woman Movement 555 The National Struggle for Woman Suffrage
562
XXIV. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY 570 Coöperation between
Employers and Employees 571 The Rise and Growth of Organized
Labor 575 The Wider Relations of Organized Labor 577 Immigration
and Americanization 582
XXV. PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE WORLD WAR 588
Domestic Legislation 588 Colonial and Foreign Policies 592 The
United States and the European War 596 The United States at War 604
The Settlement at Paris 612 Summary of Democracy and the World
War 620
APPENDIX 627
A TOPICAL SYLLABUS 645
INDEX 655

MAPS
PAGE The Original Grants (color map) Facing 4
German and Scotch-Irish Settlements 8
Distribution of Population in 1790 27
English, French, and Spanish Possessions in America, 1750 (color map)

Facing 59
The Colonies at the Time of the Declaration of Independence (color
map) Facing 108
North America according to the Treaty of 1783 (color map) Facing 134
The United States in 1805 (color map) Facing 193
Roads and Trails into Western Territory (color map) Facing 224
The Cumberland Road 233
Distribution of Population in 1830 235
Texas and the Territory in Dispute 282
The Oregon Country and the Disputed Boundary 285
The Overland Trails 287
Distribution of Slaves in Southern States 323
The Missouri Compromise 326
Slave and Free Soil on the Eve of the Civil War 335
The United States in 1861 (color map) Facing 345
Railroads of the United States in 1918 405
The United States in 1870 (color map) Facing 427
The United States in 1912 (color map) Facing 443
American Dominions in the Pacific (color map) Facing 500
The Caribbean Region (color map) Facing 592
Battle Lines of the Various Years of the World War 613

Europe in 1919 (color map) Between 618-619
"THE NATIONS OF THE WEST" (popularly called "The Pioneers"),
designed by A. Stirling Calder and modeled by Mr. Calder, F.G.R.
Roth, and Leo Lentelli, topped the Arch of the Setting Sun at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915. Facing the
Court of the Universe moves a group of men and women typical of
those who have made our civilization. From left to right appear the
French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the
Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and
warrior. In the place of honor in the center of the group, standing
between the oxen on the tongue of the prairie schooner, is a figure,
beautiful and almost girlish, but strong, dignified, and womanly, the
Mother of To-morrow. Above the group rides the Spirit of Enterprise,
flanked right and left by the Hopes of the Future