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History of the westward movement / Frederick Merk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 1978.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 660 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0394411757 :
  • 9780394411750
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E179.5 .M397 1978
Contents:
The Indian background -- Indian culture -- The Virginia tidewater -- Seventeenth century expansion of Virginia -- The Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Expansion of New England -- The Piedmont and Great Valley -- The French and Indian barrier -- The seven years' war in America -- British western policy, 1763-75 -- Terrain of the interior -- Land speculators and settlers enter the Allegheny Plateau -- The West in the war of the American Revolution and in the Peace Treaty of 1783 -- Land cessions by the states -- Land policy and the principle of equality of states -- Postwar land speculation -- The west in the War of 1812 -- Advance over the Allegheny Plateau -- The southwest in American diplomacy, 1783-1803 -- The northwest in American diplomacy, 1783-95 -- Settlement of the prairie and lake plains -- Prairie and lake plains: economy, society, and politics -- Settlement of the gulf plains province -- Gulf plains: economy, society, and politics -- The slavery issue and the unification of the south -- Internal commerce and internal improvements -- The tariff as a sectional issue -- Trans-Mississippi trade -- The Mississippi Valley frontier and its outlets to the far West -- Texas -- The movement for annexation and the defeat of the treaty -- The Mormons -- The public lands, 1800-62 -- Physiography of the far West -- Annexation achieved -- The Oregon question -- California -- The Bear Flag Revolt -- The war with Mexico -- The issue of slavery in the new territories and the Compromise of 1850 -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and bleeding Kansas -- Mining advance across the cordilleran West -- Plains and mountain Indians and the Dawes Act of 1887 -- The Dred Scott decision -- The West and slavery, 1856-60 -- Agriculture in the Middle West and the Granger and Greenback movements -- Industrialization of the Great Lakes region -- Great plains and cattlemen -- Farmers on the Great Plains -- Populism -- Dry farming -- Mining techniques of the twentieth century -- Early irrigation and the Colorado River projects -- The Columbia basin and central valley projects -- The Tennessee Valley Authority and its role as model for western river basin development -- The Missouri and Arkansas basin projects and the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 -- Soil conservation -- Agricultural overproduction and production control to 1941 -- Agriculture and farm policy during and after World War II -- The Kennedy-Johnson years in farm policy -- Farm tenancy and its decline: a century of change -- Migratory farm labor, 1900-75 -- American Indians, 1934-74 -- Land-use planning -- Afterword.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Indian background -- Indian culture -- The Virginia tidewater -- Seventeenth century expansion of Virginia -- The Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Expansion of New England -- The Piedmont and Great Valley -- The French and Indian barrier -- The seven years' war in America -- British western policy, 1763-75 -- Terrain of the interior -- Land speculators and settlers enter the Allegheny Plateau -- The West in the war of the American Revolution and in the Peace Treaty of 1783 -- Land cessions by the states -- Land policy and the principle of equality of states -- Postwar land speculation -- The west in the War of 1812 -- Advance over the Allegheny Plateau -- The southwest in American diplomacy, 1783-1803 -- The northwest in American diplomacy, 1783-95 -- Settlement of the prairie and lake plains -- Prairie and lake plains: economy, society, and politics -- Settlement of the gulf plains province -- Gulf plains: economy, society, and politics -- The slavery issue and the unification of the south -- Internal commerce and internal improvements -- The tariff as a sectional issue -- Trans-Mississippi trade -- The Mississippi Valley frontier and its outlets to the far West -- Texas -- The movement for annexation and the defeat of the treaty -- The Mormons -- The public lands, 1800-62 -- Physiography of the far West -- Annexation achieved -- The Oregon question -- California -- The Bear Flag Revolt -- The war with Mexico -- The issue of slavery in the new territories and the Compromise of 1850 -- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and bleeding Kansas -- Mining advance across the cordilleran West -- Plains and mountain Indians and the Dawes Act of 1887 -- The Dred Scott decision -- The West and slavery, 1856-60 -- Agriculture in the Middle West and the Granger and Greenback movements -- Industrialization of the Great Lakes region -- Great plains and cattlemen -- Farmers on the Great Plains -- Populism -- Dry farming -- Mining techniques of the twentieth century -- Early irrigation and the Colorado River projects -- The Columbia basin and central valley projects -- The Tennessee Valley Authority and its role as model for western river basin development -- The Missouri and Arkansas basin projects and the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965 -- Soil conservation -- Agricultural overproduction and production control to 1941 -- Agriculture and farm policy during and after World War II -- The Kennedy-Johnson years in farm policy -- Farm tenancy and its decline: a century of change -- Migratory farm labor, 1900-75 -- American Indians, 1934-74 -- Land-use planning -- Afterword.