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Baltimore & Ohio by Carroll Bateman The story of the Railroad that grew up w US
The Baltimore and Ohio by Carroll Bateman The story of the Railroad that grew up with the United States
Soft Cover
Copyright 1951
32 pages
YOUNG AMERICA was proud and cocksure and self-reliant. It was noisy, but hard-working; eager and ambitious. The times that had tried men's souls, in the words of Tom Paine, were past. The days of the 1820's tested bodily strength and mental keenness.
The nation was growing up. July 4, 1826, had been the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. On that day Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, almost the last of the founders of the nation, lay dying. The original thirteen States had swelled to twenty-tour, two of these beyond the Mississippi River. The United States had emphasized its independence with the War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. The nation sought greatness with all the impatience and vigor of its youth; greatness not in later years-but at the very moment.
In 1827 the population exceeded twelve millions. The human tide had overflowed the Atlantic seaboard and swept westward into the rich river valleys. Now, more people were living west of the Alleghanies than had lived in the original thirteen states during Washington's time. Long since, in 1799, Daniel Boone had been "crowded" out of the wilderness of western Virginia by neighbors living only ten miles away. He kept on moving westward to the comfort of a lonely territory that was to become the State of Missouri in 1821.
John Quincy Adams, sixth president and son of the second, sat in an uneasy chair. Ninety-year-old Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, was living out his days in the quiet of an estate near Baltimore. Tell roads and turnpikes took the places of Indian paths and wagon trails; the rivers and lakes were being linked with man-made canals. All this to foster trade between the centers of population in the East and the forests and farmlands in the West.
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