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Author : Gershom Flagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Illinois
ISBN : NYPL:33433081814737
Author : Illinois State Historical Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Illinois
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010594265
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235633
After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region’s past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers—and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.
Author : Barbara Lawrence,Nedra Branz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014439387
A collection of letters mainly between Gershom Flagg and his son Willard but also to and from prominent St. Louisans, Illinois politicians, and others. Crusty, wry, opinionated, Gershom Flagg and his son who was at Yale, kept each other up to date concerning local, national, and international politics; agricultural, social, and economic trends; and duels, bank robberies, and hangings in and around St. Louis and southern Illinois; and the latest fads at Yale. These letters show that even during the early prairie years, Illinoisans were not isolated from the world of culture and politics unless they chose to be. Gershom Flagg viewed the world through a curmudgeon’s eyes, his son Willard through the eyes of a romantic. Their letters add flesh and blood to the skeleton of history as they provide first-hand accounts of great events by the men who lived through them. The Flaggs wrote of cholera epidemics, river travel, prairie fires and fires in St. Louis, education, social events, and entertainment. Because Gershom was a great gossip who kept track of his neighbors, he includes facts about local weddings, births, deaths, even family quarrels.
Author : David Ress
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786426393
His greatest work began as a misinterpretation. Edward Coles, former Virginian aristocrat and future governor of Illinois, began his move westward under the impression that the Northwest Ordinance straightforwardly banned slavery in all territories north of the Ohio River. This impression, however, was much more absolute in law than it ever was in fact. The reality of the situation was that slaveholders moved to territories such as Illinois and brought their lifestyle with them. So-called indentured servants, whose condition was supposedly a result of their own choices, were often simply slaves by another name. Having freed his slaves (some of whom nevertheless chose to remain with him) once he reached northern territory, Coles was appalled at the reality he found upon reaching his destination. A confirmed abolitionist, Cole soon set in motion one of the first true anti-slavery campaigns in the United States, resulting in a referendum that would ban slavery from Illinois once and for all. This biographical volume details the life and times of Illinois' second governor, the "improbable" Edward Coles. The book discusses his Virginian roots and his associations with men such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. It traces the motivations and circumstances which led a man with a confirmed Southern upbringing and definitive political connections to break the mold and uphold his unpopular moral beliefs. The main focus of the work, however, is Coles' work against slavery in Illinois. His political campaign, his lifestyle and his critics are all discussed. Views from contemporaries, who saw Coles as "a man who made a great thing happen," place Coles within the political atmosphere of the day and belie the neglect which he received in later years. Coles own writings add a personal note to an otherwise forgotten political story. A number of period photographs and an index are included.
Author : Andrew H. Browning
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274250
The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War. Although it stands as one of the turning points of American history, few Americans today have heard of the Panic of 1819, with the result that we continue to ignore its lessons—and repeat its mistakes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OSU:32435025291410
Author : James Westfall Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112104059016
Author : William K. Bolt
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826503923
Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period. The debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments between politicians, interest groups, newspapers, and a broader electorate. The spreading of democracy caused by the tariff evoked bitter sectional controversy among Americans. Northerners claimed they needed a tariff to protect their industries and also their wages. Southerners alleged the tariff forced them to buy goods at increased prices. Having lost the argument against the tariff on its merits, in the 1820s, southerners began to argue the Constitution did not allow Congress to enact a protective tariff. In this fight, we see increased tensions between northerners and southerners in the decades before the Civil War began. As Tariff Wars reveals, this struggle spawned a controversy that placed the nation on a path that would lead to the early morning hours of Charleston Harbor in April of 1861.
Author : Eugene H. Berwanger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0252070569
Eugene H. Berwanger's study of anti-slavery sentiment in the antebellum West is as resoundingly important now, in a new paperback edition, as when first published in 1967. In The Frontier against Slavery, Berwanger attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice. Drawing from newspaper accounts, political speeches, correspondence, and legal documents, Berwanger reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. This whites-only prejudice shaped laws in the majority of western states and territories that excluded all African Americans, enslaved or free, from citizenship, evidencing the deep-rooted discrimination of political leaders and pioneers.
Author : Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195365498
The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837
Author : Kale Meggs
Publisher : BLACK OAK MEDIA INC
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781618760142
Between 1779 and 1896, ninety-eight men and one woman were legally executed by hanging in the state of Illinois. Some were innocent, but most were guilty. Includes the story of H.H. Holmes, the most notorious and evil man to ever walk the streets of Chicago.
Author : Illinois State Historical Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Historical libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B3041710
Author : Douglas K. Meyer
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809335145
This book reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Meyer argues that midcontinental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300229677
The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie’s inhabitants—Indians, pioneers, farming men and women—and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history. "This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune "Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."—Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement "A notably successful example of the new work being done on the social history of rural America…. Faragher has constructed a vivid portrait of everyday life as well as an analysis of how the community developed and changed."—George M. Fredrickson, New York Review of Books "Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."—Publishers Weekly "Sugar Creek is a major new interpretation of America’s rural past."—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award John Mack Faragher is associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.
