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Title: The New Nation
Author: Frederic L. Paxson
Editor: William E. Dodd
Release Date: January 31, 2009 [EBook #27953]
Language: English
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[Signature]Woodrow Wilson]
THE NEW NATION
BY
FREDERIC L. PAXSON
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
[Illustration: logo]
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
I. THE CIVIL WAR 1
II. THE WEST AND THE GREENBACKS 20
III. THE RESTORATION OF HOME RULE IN THE SOUTH 39
IV. THE PANIC OF 1873 59
V. THE HAYES ADMINISTRATION 75
VI. BUSINESS AND POLIT
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