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Page 40
... north - western states which in many ways appeared to have more in common with the South than with the North Atlantic states . Nature had clearly decreed that the great central basin of the Mississippi was one geographical region ...
... north - western states which in many ways appeared to have more in common with the South than with the North Atlantic states . Nature had clearly decreed that the great central basin of the Mississippi was one geographical region ...
Page 41
... north - east and north - west on land policy , internal improve- ments , promotion of railroads , and , of course , in opposition to the extension of slavery . The Republican party was the clearest political expression of the new ...
... north - east and north - west on land policy , internal improve- ments , promotion of railroads , and , of course , in opposition to the extension of slavery . The Republican party was the clearest political expression of the new ...
Page 112
... North was really determined to maintain the Union , it would have to conquer the whole South , and assert and maintain its control over it - and it was not Southerners alone who believed that such a task was impossible . After all , the ...
... North was really determined to maintain the Union , it would have to conquer the whole South , and assert and maintain its control over it - and it was not Southerners alone who believed that such a task was impossible . After all , the ...
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