THE NEW NATION

BY

FREDERIC L. PAXSON

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY FREDERIC L. PAXSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS
U.S.A.

PREFACE

A new nation has appeared within the United States since the Civil War, but it has been only accidentally connected with that catastrophe. The Constitution emerged from the confusion of strife and reconstruction substantially unchanged, but the economic development of the United States in the sixties and seventies gave birth to a society that was, by 1885, already national in its activities and necessities. In many ways the history of the United States since the Civil War has to do with the struggle between this national fact and the old legal system that was based upon state autonomy and federalism; and the future depends upon the discovery of a means to readjust the mechanics of government, as well as its content, to the needs of life. This book attempts to narrate the facts of the last half-century and to show them in their relations to the larger truths of national development.

Frederic L. Paxson.

CONTENTS

• The Civil War
• The West and the Greenbacks
• The Restoration of Home Rule in the South
• The Panic of 1873
• The Hayes Administration
• Business and Politics
• The New Issues
• Grover Cleveland
• The Last of the Frontier
• National Business
• The Farmers' Cause
• The New South
• Populism
• Free Silver
• The "Counter-Reformation"
• The Spanish War
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Big Business
• The "Muck-Rakers"
• New Nationalism

Index

MAPS AND CHARTS

The Railways of the "Old Northwest"
The Western Railway Land Grants, 1850-1871
The Solid South, 1880-1912
The Political Situation at Washington, 1869-1917
Population and Immigration, 1850-1910
The Western Railroads and the Continental Frontier, 1870-1890
The Distribution of the Public Domain, 1789-1904
The Congressional Election of 1890
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