Issues: second United States bank, tariff, nullification,
Texas, internal improvements, and disposition of Western
lands.
IV. The Democrats _versus_ the Republicans from about 1856 to the
present time (334-377, 388-389, 412-422, 451-475, 489-534,
588-620).
1. Democratic leaders: Jefferson Davis, Tilden, Cleveland,
Bryan, and Wilson.
2. Republican leaders: Lincoln, Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt.
3. Issues: Civil War and reconstruction, currency, tariff,
taxation, trusts, railways, foreign policies, imperialism,
labor questions, and policies with regard to land and
conservation.
V. Minor political parties.
1. Before the Civil War: Free Soil (319) and Labor Parties
(306-307).
2. Since the Civil War: Greenback (463-464), Populist (464),
Liberal Republican (420), Socialistic (577-579), Progressive
(531-534, 602-603).
=The Economic Development of the United States=
I. The land and natural resources.
1. The colonial land system: freehold, plantation, and manor
(20-25).
2. Development of the freehold in the West (220-221, 228-230).
3. The Homestead act and its results (368, 432-433).
4. The cattle range and cowboy (431-432).
5. Disappearance of free land (443-445).
6. Irrigation and reclamation (434-436).
7. Movement for the conservation of resources (523-526).
II. Industry.
1. The rise of local and domestic industries (28-32).
2. British restrictions on American enterprise (67-69, 70-72).
3. Protective tariffs (see above, 648-649).
4. Development of industry previous to the Civil War (295-307).
5. Great progress of industry after the war (401-406).
6. Rise and growth of trusts and combinations (406-412,
472-474).
III. Commerce and transportation.
1. Extent of colonial trade and commerce (32-35).
2. British regulation (69-70).
3. Effects of the Revolution and the Constitution
(139-140, 154).
4. Growth of American shipping (195-196).
5. Waterways and canals (230-236).
6. Rise and extension of the railway system (298-300).
7. Growth of American foreign trade (445-449).
IV. Rise of organized labor.
1. Early phases before the Civil War: local unions, city
federation
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