A History of America in 100 Maps

A NATION REALIZED 121 it was transporting a greater volume of material than the entire Mississippi River system. This fever of a ...

122 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1839 newspaperman John O’Sullivan declared that the United States was divinely ordained ...

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A mericans were on the move in the mid-nineteenth century, in every sense of the word. Beginning in the 1830s, westering migrant ...

Philadelphia, and San Francisco; few chose the South. Regional differences surfaced in other ways. Evangelical revivals fostered ...

126 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1801 an evangelical camp meeting drew thousands to the Kentucky frontier, launching a re ...

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128 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The map on the previous page reflects the creative energy of antebellum reformers, who used ...

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130 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The American Southeast had long been inhabited by Native Americans when Europeans began to ...

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132 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The map on the previous page captures the assumption—first articulated by Thomas Jefferson— ...

EXPANSION, FRAGMENTATION, AND REUNIFICATION 133 Preuss drew these maps at the request of David Atchison, Missouri’s second senat ...

134 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The map of the Oregon Trail on the previous page was published immediately after the United ...

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136 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS On February 2, 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war with Mexico and extended ...

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138 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The national population expanded significantly in the first half of the nineteenth century, ...

EXPANSION, FRAGMENTATION, AND REUNIFICATION 139 in America. But a closer look shows not only patterns of immigration but also th ...

140 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS On January 4, 1854, the Democratic Party’s most powerful senator introduced a bill that pro ...