Solid South, 217

South, 27, 166, 218;
contribution to settlement of Old Northwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois),
223, 225-226;
Ohio Valley and, 174;
solid, 217;
transforming forces, 295;
West and, 196, 197;
_see also_ Upland South

South Carolina, 174;
condition of antagonism between coast and interior, 116;
land system, townships, 96;
trade, 108

South Dakota, development, 237

Southeastern Europe, 294, 299, 316

Southerners and the Middle West, 133-134, 135, 138

Southwest, 297

Spain, 167, 181, 246;
Mississippi Valley and, 184, 185

Spangenburg, A. G., 17

Spanish America 181, 182, 295

Spanish frontier, 125

Spanish War, 246

Speculation, 319

Spoils system, 32, 254

Spotswood, Alexander, 22, 88, 90, 91, 113, 247;
Mississippi Valley and, 180

Spotsylvania County, Va., 90

Spreckles, Claus, 265

Squatter-sovereignty, 140

Squatters, 272, 343;
doctrines, 273, 328;
ideal, 320;
Middle West, 137;
Ohio Valley, 170;
Pennsylvania in 1726, 101

Stark, John, 103-104

State historical societies, 340

State lines, 127

State universities, 221, 354;
as safeguard of democracy, 286;
Michigan, 233;
peculiar power, 283-284;
pioneer ideals and, 269, 281

States, checkerboard, 218;
frontier pioneers' demand for statehood, 248;
groups, 159;
new states vs. Atlantic States, 207;
System of, 168

Staunton, Va., 92

Steam navigation, 7, 135, 171

Steel, 313

Steel and iron industry, 152

Stockbridge, 79

Stoddard, Solomon, 45

Success, 288, 309

Sudbury, 39

Suffrage, 192, 216;
basis, 249;
frontier and extension, 30;
manhood, 250, 352

Superior, Lake, 180, 314;
iron mines, 152

Swedes, 233

Symmes Purchase, 223

Talleyrand, 299

Taney, R. B., 141

Tariff, 25, 27, 170, 172, 197, 216

Taylor, Zachary, 255

Tecumthe, 134, 144

Tennessee, 122, 168, 187, 225, 252, 253;
democracy, 192

Tennyson's "Ulysses," 310

Territories, system of, 168, 169

Texas, 168

Thomas, J. B., 174

Tocqueville, A. C. H. C. de, 153, 275, 303, 343

Toledo, Ohio, 231

Toleration, 355

Town meeting, 62

Towns, legislating into existence, 125;
locating, Massachusetts, 76;
New England and Virginia, 41;
new settlements in New England, 55;
South Carolina, 96;
typical form of establishing in New England, 74;
Virginia, 85, 86

Trader's frontier, 12;
effects following, 12;
rapidity of advance, 12, 13