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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Expansion and Conflict, by William E. Dodd This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Expansion and Conflict Author: William E. Dodd Release Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21537] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXPANSION AND CONFLICT *** Produced by G. Edward Johnson, Thomas Strong, Jason Isbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Portions of this file were produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: Copyright, 1891, by M. B. Rice. (signature) Abraham Lincoln] EXPANSION AND CONFLICT BY WILLIAM E. DODD PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY WILLIAM E. DODD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U. S. A. PREFACE The purpose of this volume is to show the action and reaction of the most important social, economic, political, and personal forces that have entered into the make-up of the United States as a nation. The primary assumption of the author is that the people of this country did not compose a nation until after the close of the Civil War in 1865. Of scarcely less importance is the fact that the decisive motive behind the different groups in Congress at every great crisis of the period under discussion was sectional advantage or even sectional aggrandizement. If Webster ceased to be a particularist after 1824 and became a nationalist before 1830, it was because the interests of New England had undergone a similar change; or, if Calhoun deserted about the same time the cause of nationalism and became the most ardent
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