Contributions In History And Political Science PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...or followed, Clay's opinions especially, except in the matter of the Second United States Bank,24 show a remarkable correspondence with western sentiment. During the years 1815 to 1830, the western movement, swelled by many favoring influences, reached unprecedented volume. By 1815 the older transalleghany settlements were already well out of the pioneer stage, and the frontier line was advancing in form of a wedge the point of which was rapidly ascending the Missouri, while the irregular sides slanted back to the northeast and southeast, crossing Illinois and Indiana well south of the center, and following roughly the Tennessee boundary and the Oconee River on the South. The banks of the Mississippi bore scattered settlements, and the State of Louisiana formed a kind of island of population lying in advance of the main frontier. Within a few years after the signing of the Peace of Ghent, the acquisition of Florida and a series of treaties with the Indian tribes, now lacking the support of foreign influences, opened to white occupation vast tracts in the Northwest and Southwest. The land laws of 1820 and 1821 made easier than ever before the acquisition of land by the poor pioneer, while the vast extent of the frontier favored the squatter by diminishing the prob "Cf. nationalism of the speech of Martindale of New York on this bill Annals. Eighteenth Cong., 1 sees., I, 1631. ' See 6!ic, 181, /. n. 82. ability of government interference. The diversion of New England agriculture from grain raising to wool-growing and dairying, under stress of competition with the fresh lands of the West, displaced a portion of the population which, not taking kindly to labor in the rising factories, joined the westward-moving stream. The culture...