NE, 1900.

PARADE OF THE SOUND MONEY LEAGUE, NEW YORK, 1900
PASSING THE REVIEWING STAND.

MR. MERRIAM, DIRECTOR OF THE CENSUS.

CENSUS EXAMINATION.

THE CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

A CENSUS-TAKER AT WORK.

ELECTRIC TOWER AND FOUNTAINS [BUFFALO].

ETHNOLOGY BUILDING AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

TEMPLE OF MUSIC BY ELECTRIC LIGHT.

GROUP OF BUFFALOS--PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.

ELECTRIC TOWER AT NIGHT.

TRIUMPHAL BRIDGE AND ENTRANCE TO THE EXPOSITION, SHOWING ELECTRIC
DISPLAY AT NIGHT.

THE ELECTRICITY BUILDING.

PRESIDENT McKINLEY AT NIAGARA--ASCENDING THE STAIRS FROM LUNA ISLAND TO
GOAT ISLAND. (Copyright photograph, 1901, by C. E. Dunlap).

THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LATE PRESIDENT McKINLEY--TAKEN AS HE WAS
ASCENDING THE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE OF MUSIC, SEPTEMBER 6, 1901.

THE MILBURN RESIDENCE, WHERE PRESIDENT McKINLEY DIED--BUFFALO, N. Y.
(Copyright photograph, 1902, by Underwood & Underwood).

ASCENDING THE CAPITOL STEPS AT WASHINGTON, D. C., WHERE THE CASKET LAY
IN STATE IN THE ROTUNDA.

PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S REMAINS PASSING THE UNITED STATES TREASURY,
WASHINGTON, D. C. (Copyright photograph, 1901, by Underwood &
Underwood).

THE HOME OF WILLIAM McKINLEY AT CANTON, OHIO. (Copyright photograph,
1901, by Underwood & Underwood).

INTERIOR OF ROOM IN WILCOX HOUSE WHERE THEODORE ROOSEVELT TOOK THE OATH
OF PRESIDENCY.

PERIOD VI.

EXPANSION

1888-1902

CHAPTER I.

DRIFT AND DYE IN LAW-MAKING

[1890]

Race war at the South following the abolition of slavery, new social
conditions everywhere, and the archaic nature of many provisions in the
old laws, induced, as the century drew to a close, a pretty general
revision of State constitutions. New England clung to instruments
adopted before the civil war, though in most cases considerably amended.
New Jersey was equally conservative, as were also Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. New York adopted in 1894 a new constitution
which became operative January 1, 1895. Of the old States beyond the
Mississippi only Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and Oregon remained content
with ante-bellum instruments. Between 1864 and 1866 ten of the southern
States inaugurated governments which were not recognized by Congress and
had to be reconstructed. Ten of the eleven reconstruction constitutions
were in turn overthrown by 1896. In a little over a generation,
beginning with Minnesota, 1858, fourteen new States entered the Union,
of which all b