The frontier in American historyH. Holt, 1920 - 375 halaman The author argues that the availability of cheap land in the American West is the lens through which the history of the United States should be viewed. |
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... turn were transformed into railroads . The same origin can be shown for the railroads of the South , the Far West , and the Dominion of Canada.28 The trading posts reached by these trails were on the sites of Indian villages which had ...
... turn were transformed into railroads . The same origin can be shown for the railroads of the South , the Far West , and the Dominion of Canada.28 The trading posts reached by these trails were on the sites of Indian villages which had ...
Halaman 20
... turn . The small village rises to a spacious town or city ; sub- stantial edifices of brick , extensive fields , orchards , gardens , colleges , and churches are seen . Broad- cloths , silks , leghorns , crapes , and all the refine ...
... turn . The small village rises to a spacious town or city ; sub- stantial edifices of brick , extensive fields , orchards , gardens , colleges , and churches are seen . Broad- cloths , silks , leghorns , crapes , and all the refine ...
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... turn to intensive farming and to manufacture . A decade before this , Ohio had shown the same transition stage . Thus the demand for land and the love of wilderness freedom drew the frontier ever onward . Having now roughly outlined the ...
... turn to intensive farming and to manufacture . A decade before this , Ohio had shown the same transition stage . Thus the demand for land and the love of wilderness freedom drew the frontier ever onward . Having now roughly outlined the ...
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... turning point in the history of the Republic , inasmuch as it afforded both a new area for national legislation and the occasion of the down- fall of the policy of strict construction . But the purchase of Louisiana was called out by ...
... turning point in the history of the Republic , inasmuch as it afforded both a new area for national legislation and the occasion of the down- fall of the policy of strict construction . But the purchase of Louisiana was called out by ...
Halaman 37
... turn of mind , quick to find expedients ; that masterful grasp of material things , lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends ; that restless , nervous energy ; 54 that dominant individualism , work- ing for good and for ...
... turn of mind , quick to find expedients ; that masterful grasp of material things , lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends ; that restless , nervous energy ; 54 that dominant individualism , work- ing for good and for ...
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