H.A.  Millis, The American-Japanese Problem.

E.S.  Meany, History of the State of Washington.

H.K.  Norton, The Story of California.

=Questions=

1.  Name the states west of the Mississippi in 1865.

2.  In what manner was the rest of the western region governed?

3.  How far had settlement been carried?

4.  What were the striking physical features of the West?

5.  How was settlement promoted after 1865?

6.  Why was admission to the union so eagerly sought?

7.  Explain how politics became involved in the creation of new states.

8.  Did the West rapidly become like the older sections of the country?

9.  What economic peculiarities did it retain or develop?

10.  How did the federal government aid in western agriculture?

11.  How did the development of the West affect the East?  The South?

12.  What relation did the opening of the great grain areas of the West bear to the growth of America’s commercial and financial power?

13.  State some of the new problems of the West.

14.  Discuss the significance of American expansion to the Pacific Ocean.

=Research Topics=

=The Passing of the Wild West.=—­Haworth, The United States in Our Own Times, pp. 100-124.

=The Indian Question.=—­Sparks, National Development (American Nation Series), pp. 265-281.

=The Chinese Question.=—­Sparks, National Development, pp. 229-250; Rhodes, History of the United States, Vol.  VIII, pp. 180-196.

=The Railway Age.=—­Schafer, History of the Pacific Northwest, pp. 230-245; E.V.  Smalley, The Northern Pacific Railroad; Paxson, The New Nation (Riverside Series), pp. 20-26, especially the map on p. 23, and pp. 142-148.

=Agriculture and Business.=—­Schafer, Pacific Northwest, pp. 246-289.

=Ranching in the Northwest.=—­Theodore Roosevelt, Ranch Life, and Autobiography, pp. 103-143.

=The Conquest of the Desert.=—­W.E.  Smythe, The Conquest of Arid America.

=Studies of Individual Western States.=—­Consult any good encyclopedia.

CHAPTER XIX

DOMESTIC ISSUES BEFORE THE COUNTRY (1865-1897)

For thirty years after the Civil War the leading political parties, although they engaged in heated presidential campaigns, were not sharply and clearly opposed on many matters of vital significance.  During none of that time was there a clash of opinion over specific issues such as rent the country in 1800 when Jefferson rode a popular wave to victory, or again in 1828 when Jackson’s western hordes came sweeping into power.  The Democrats, who before 1860 definitely opposed protective tariffs, federal banking, internal improvements, and