A History of America in 100 Maps

EXPANSION, FRAGMENTATION, AND REUNIFICATION 141 When Kansas opened for settlement later that year, the worst fears of Northerner ...

142 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1856 John Jay captured the urgency of the sectional crisis by starkly differentiating “A ...

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144 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Like many Americans, the artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter was heartened by President Abrah ...

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EXPANSION, FRAGMENTATION, AND REUNIFICATION 147 In early 1864, Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant instructed General William Tecum ...

148 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Well before the end of the Civil War, congressional Republicans and President Lincoln began ...

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T he United States experienced one of the most rapid and thorough economic transformations in modern history after the Civil War ...

made maps to investigate and publicize the condition of the immigrant poor on the south side of Chicago. And in Philadelphia W. ...

152 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The United States modernized so quickly in the second half of the nineteenth century that b ...

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 153 geological research since then. While Hotchkiss was compiling the map in 1873 his task ...

154 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The presence of coal in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky was well established by the 1 ...

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156 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Today Americans casually invoke “red and blue America” as a shorthand for the polarization ...

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 157 presidency, Gannett relegated the electoral map to an inset in order to feature a larg ...

158 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In the 1840s and 1850s the railroads were regarded as an astonishing technological feat tha ...

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 159 transcontinental railroads, it seems, few had asked whether they were actually necessa ...

160 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS In 1886 the Smithsonian Institution sent its chief taxidermist to Montana to bring back spe ...