American Nation: A History 1877-1885 Volume 23 National Development 1907

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By Edwin Erle Sparks, PH.D.

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378 Pages

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THE work of reconstructing the political standing of certain southern states, impaired by at-

tempted secession, was well-nigh completed by 1877. In the decade following, the foundations were unconsciously laid for the national edifice which is the glory of the present age. Old precedents were gone, new industrial conditions were confronted, new routes of commerce were discovered, and new political policies were worked out. Modern accumulation of wealth and modern combinations of labor here found a beginning. The national credit, impaired by depreciated paper issues, was restored by the resumption of specie payments.

Increased Asiatic immigration to California caused the first barriers to be erected against the admission of a foreign people; and conditions in Utah demanded federal regulation of a social question, thus establishing a new precedent. Many of the limitations through constitutional interpretation, which had been a hindrance to congressional action, disappeared after the final arbitration of war; thenceforth expediency and the general good were to be the criteria of action.

Contents

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Xl

AUTHOR'S PREFACE Xiii

I.THE NEW SPIRIT OF '76 (1876-1877) 3

H.THE PEOPLE AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION (1877-1880) 20

III.INVENTION AND DISCOVERY (1877-1885) . 37

IV.PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORTATION (1875-1885) 53

V.INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS (1875-1885) .68

VI.PRESIDENT HAYES AND THE SOUTH (1876-1877) 84

VII. REPUBLICAN DISSENSIONS (1877-1878) . . . 103_

VIII. THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS (1876-1881) . 119

IX.CURRENCY AND FISHERIES (1877-1881) . . 137

X.CIVIL SERVICE EVILS (1877-1880) 154

XI.PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 188o (1880-1881) 165

XII. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM (1881-1884) .182

XIII. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL (1877-1885) .202

XIV. THE CHINESE QUESTION (1879-1885)229

XV. THE FAR WEST (1876-1888) 251

XVI. THE INDIAN QUESTION (1877-1885) .265

XVII. THE TARIFF OF 1883 (1873-1883) .282

XVIII. INLAND COMMERCE (1875-1885) 305

XIX. THE ELECTION OF 1884 (1882-1884) 327

XX.CRITICAL ESSAY ON AUTHORITIES . 352

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