The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

330 S lavery, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918) declared, was a benign institution.“Severity was clearly the exception, and kindli- ...

production methods. American clocks, pistols, rifles, and locks were outstanding. The American exhibits at the London Crystal Pa ...

332 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways Indians came to the New World from Asia. But only with the development of national ...

How Wage Earners Lived 333 Out of doors, city life for the poor was almost equally squalid. Slum streets were littered with garb ...

334 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways few local officials. These organizations were made up mostly of skilled craftsmen, ...

Foreign Commerce 335 Foreign Commerce Changes in the pattern of foreign commerce were less noticeable than those in manufacturin ...

336 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways years earlier. Startling improvements in design, culmi- nating in the long, sleek, ...

Financing the Railroads 337 Yet without this cheap means of transportation, thousands of poor immigrants would simply have remai ...

338 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways were made after the Civil War, when the transconti- nental lines were built. Frequ ...

Railroads and the Economy 339 for many years before 1850, but development had been slow because it was remote from navigable wat ...

340 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways efficiency helps explain why wheat output rose by nearly 75 percent in the 1850s. ...

The Economy on the Eve of Civil War 341 The railroads, like the textile industry, stimulated other kinds of economic activity. T ...

342 Chapter 12 The Sections Go Their Own Ways Inevitably, this growth caused dislocations that were aggravated by the boom psych ...

Connections Chapter Review 343 Research and Explore Foreign Immigration, p. 331 Senate Report on the Railroads,p. 338 ReadtheDoc ...

Do you space out during political debates? 344 In late July 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, behind in the polls, ran a ...

The Coming of the Civil WarThe Coming of the Civil War 13 CONTENTS ■Abraham Lincoln speaks as Stephen Douglas gazes at the audie ...

346 Chapter 13 The Coming of the Civil War With the defeat of a Greek Army in 1826, the Victorious Turks sold 3,000 Greek women ...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 347 a “vigilance committee” hounded them through the streets shouting “slave hunters, slave hunters,” and forc ...

348 Chapter 13 The Coming of the Civil War of transmitting the dynamic, demo- cratic U.S. spirit to other countries by aiding lo ...

agreed to establish diplomatic relations. In 1858 an American envoy, Townsend Harris, negotiated a com- mercial treaty that open ...