ICS 92

VII. THE NEW ISSUES 108

VIII. GROVER CLEVELAND 126

IX. THE LAST OF THE FRONTIER 142

X. NATIONAL BUSINESS 162

XI. THE FARMERS' CAUSE 177

XII. THE NEW SOUTH 192

XIII. POPULISM 208

XIV. FREE SILVER 225

XV. THE "COUNTER-REFORMATION" 244

XVI. THE SPANISH WAR 258

XVII. THEODORE ROOSEVELT 276

XVIII. BIG BUSINESS 293

XIX. THE "MUCK-RAKERS" 309

XX. NEW NATIONALISM 324

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MAPS AND CHARTS

THE RAILWAYS OF THE "OLD NORTHWEST" 13

THE WESTERN RAILWAY LAND GRANTS, 1850-1871 23

THE SOLID SOUTH, 1880-1912 53

THE POLITICAL SITUATION AT WASHINGTON, 1869-1917 76, 77

POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION, 1850-1910 120

THE WESTERN RAILROADS AND THE CONTINENTAL FRONTIER, 1870-1890 146, 147

THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, 1789-1904 153

THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF 1890 _between 186 and 187_

THE FLOOD OF SILVER, 1861-1911 227

ALASKA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND THE SEAT OF THE SPANISH WAR 259

NORTH AMERICA IN 1915 _between 340 and 341_

THE NEW NATION

CHAPTER I

THE CIVIL WAR

The military successes of the United States in its Civil War maintained
the Union, but entailed readjustments in politics, finance, and business
that shifted the direction of public affairs for many years. In the eyes
of contemporaries these changes were obscured by the vivid scenes of the
battlefield, whose intense impressions were not forgotten for a
generation. It seemed as though the war were everything, as though the
Republican party had pr