Expansion and Conflict

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Expansion and Conflict, by William E. DoddThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Expansion and ConflictAuthor: William E. DoddRelease Date: May 19, 2007 [EBook #21537]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EXPANSION AND CONFLICT ***Produced by G. Edward Johnson, Thomas Strong, Jason Isbell,and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.net (Portions of this file were producedfrom images generously made available by The InternetArchive/American Libraries.)Abraham LincolnClick for list of illustrations.EXPANSION ANDCONFLICTBYWILLIAM E. DODDPROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORYUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOThe Riverside PressHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYBOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGOThe Riverside Press CambridgeCOPYRIGHT, 1915, BY WILLIAM E. DODDALL RIGHTS RESERVEDThe Riverside PressCAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTSU. S. A.PREFACEThe purpose of this volume is to show the action and reaction of the most important social, economic, political, andpersonal forces that have entered into the make-up of the United States as a nation. The primary assumption of theauthor is that the people of this country did not compose a nation until after the close of the Civil War in 1865. Of scarcelyless importance ...