e from the contributions of all nations—a type for which would fight against those who challenged it in arms, and which in time of war he would make sacrifices, even the porary sacrifice of individual freedom and his life, lest that dom be lost forever.
Absentee proprietors, 55, 297
Achievement, 309
Adams, Henry, 213
Adams, J. Q., 26, 192, 230
Agriculture, 314, 329; Middle
West, 149, 150
Agriculture, Department of, 320
Alamance, 119, 120
Alaska, 296
Albany congress of 1754, 15
Algonquin Indians, 130
Aliens, land tenure by, 110
Alleghany Mountains, 9, 18, 67;
as barrier to be overcome, 195
Allen, Ethan, 54
Allen, W. V., 220
American Historical Assoc., 159
American history, social forces,
311; survey of recent, 311
American life, distinguishing fea-
ture, 2
American people, 339
American spirit, 306, 336, 337
"American System," 171, 172
Americanization, effective, 4
Arid lands, 9, 147, 219, 239, 245,
278
Aristocracy, 250, 254, 257, 275
Army posts, frontier, 16; proto-
types, 47
Association, voluntary, 343, 344,
358
Astor's American Fur Co., 6, 143
Atlantic coast, as early frontier, 4;
Mississippi Valley and, 190, 191;
Northern, History, 295
Atlantic frontier, composition, 12
Atlantic states, 207, 208
Augusta, Ga., 98
Autocracy, 344
Back country, 68, 70; democracy
of, 248; New England, 75
Backwoods society, 212
Backwoodsmen, 163, 164
Bacon, Francis, 286
Bacon's Rebellion, 84, 247, 251, 301
Baltimore, trade, 108
Bancroft, George, 168
Bank, 171, 254, 325
Bedford, Pa., 5
Beecher, Lyman, 35
Bell, John, 192
Benton, T. H., 26, 35, 192, 325, 328
Berkshires, 60, 71, 77
Beverley, Robert, 85, 91; manor,
92
"Birch seal," 78
Black Hills, 145
Blackmar, F. W., 238
Blank patents, 95
Blood-feud, 253
Blount, William, 187
Blue Ridge, 90, 99
Boone, A. J., 19
Boone, Daniel, 18, 105, 124, 165,
206
Boston, trade, 108
Boutmy, E. G., 211
Braddock, Edward, 181, 324
Brattle, Thomas, 56
British and Middle West, 350
Brown, B. Gratz, 355
Brunswick County, Va., 91
Chicago, 137, 150, 151, 180,
Cincinnati, 133, 151, 162, 223, C
Bryan, W. J., 204, 236, 237, 246, Chillicothe, 133, 223
Cincinnati and Charleston RIC
Cities, 297, 316–317; northeast
294–295; seaboard,
194,
196; three periods of devel
ment, 195
Civil War, 356; Middle West
142; Mississippi Valley and, 20
Northwest and, 217
Clark, G. R., 131, 167, 186
Clark, J. B., 332
Class distinctions, 280, 285
Clay, Henry, 26, 168, 171, 172, 13
174, 192, 197, 206, 213, 216, 2
241, 304, 325
Cleaveland, Gen. Moses, 133, 2
257
Cleveland, 133, 150, 223, 231, 232
Clinton, De Witt, 195, 196
Coal supply, 313
Coast, Atlantic, 206; destiny, 295:
interior and, antagonisms, 110
Coeducation, 353
Colden, Cadwallader, 80
Colonial life, 11
Colonial system, 127
Colonization, 312; English and
French contrasted, 13-14; peace
Cattle raising in Virginia, 88, 89, 92 Colony of free humanity, 337-338
ompromise, 174, 198, 230, 236;
slavery, 140, 142
oncentration of power and wealth,
245, 261, 266, 280
oncord, Mass., 39
'oncurrent majority, 118
Congregational church, 74, 112
Congress and frontiersmen, 252-
253
Connecticut, frontier towns, 42, 45,
53; land policy, 76
Connecticut River, 52, 53, 72
Connecticut Valley, 63, 73
Conquest, 269
Conscience, American, 328
Constitution, U. S., 209, 244
Constitutional convention of 1787,
249
Constitutions, state, 121, 252, 352;
reconstruction, 192
Coöperation, voluntary, 165, 257,
Debs, E. V., 281
Dedham, 40, 58
Deerfield, 48, 52, 58, 70
Democracy, 32, 54, 306; doubts of,
280; established in Old West,
107; free land and, 274; frontier,
early, 106; frontier and, 30, 31,
247, 249; Gookin on, 307; in
early 18th century, 98; Jack-
sonian, 192, 302, 342–343; Jeffer-
sonian, 250, 251; magnitude of
achievement in the West, 258;
Middle West, 154; Mississippi
Valley, 183; neighborhood, 346;
new type in West, 210, 216; Ohio
Valley, influence, 172; Ohio Val-
ley and, 175; organized, 357;
origin, 293; outcome of Ameri-
can experiences, 266; pressure
on the universities, 283; signifi-
cance of Mississippi Valley in
promoting, 190; Upland South,
165; Western contributions, 243;
Western ideals, 261; see also Pio-
neer democracy
Democratic party, 327, 329; basis,
248; Middle Western wing, 352
Democratic-Republican party, 250
Denver, Colo., 19
De Tocqueville. See Tocqueville
Detroit, 135, 150
Development, American, 205, 221;
four changes, 244; personal, 271;
significant decade, 246-247;
study of, 10; true point of view,
3; Western, 218
D'Iberville. See Iberville
Discovery, 270, 293, 301, 306
Doddridge, Joseph, 115
Dogs for hunting Indians, 45
Douglas, S. A., 140; Lincoln de-
bates, 230
Douglass, William, 109
Down east, 79
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