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INDEX

North Carolina, 87, 106; coast vs. upland, 116; in Indiana Settlement, 224; public lands, 95; settlement, 94, 95; slavery, 122; taxation, 118, 119

North Central States, 126; region as a whole, 341

North Dakota, development, 237

Northampton, 63

Northfield, 53

Northwest, democracy, 356; Old and New, 222; see also Old Northwest

Northwest Territory, 222

Northwestern boundary, 324

Norton, C. E., 208-209

Norwegians, 232

Nullification, 117, 254

Ohio, diversity of interests, 231-232; elements of settlement, 223; history, 133-134; New England element, 223; Southern contribution to settlement, 223

Ohio Company, 123, 133, 141, 182, 223

Ohio River, 5, 161

Ohio Valley, 104; as a highway, 162; economic legislation and, 170; effects on national expansion, 166; in American history, 157; influence on Lincoln, 175; part in making of the nation, 160; physiography, 160-161; relation to the South, 174; religious spirit, 164, 165; stock and settlement, 164

Oil wells, 297

Oklahoma, 278, 297

Old National road, 136

Old Northwest, 131, 132, 136, 221; as a whole, 241-242; defined, 218; elements of settlement, 222; political position, 236; so-

cial origin, 222-223; Southern element in settlement, 223, 225-226; turning point of control, 229

"Old South," 166

Old West, colonization of areas beyond the mountains, 124; consequences of formation, 106; New South and, 100; summary of frontier movement in 17th and early 18th centuries, 98; term defined, 68

Old World, 261, 267, 294, 299, 344, 349; effect of American frontier, 22; West and, 206, 210

Opportunity, 37, 212, 239, 259-260, 261, 263, 271-272, 342, 343

Orangeburg, 96

Ordinance of 1787, 25, 132, 168,

190, 223 Oregon country, 144 Orient, 297 Osgood, H. L., 30

Pacific coast, 168, 219, 304 Pacific Northwest. 296 Pacific Ocean, 297, 315 Packing industries, 151 Palatine Germans, 5, 22, 100, 109,

124; New York State and, 82 Palisades, 71 Panama Canal, 295 Panics, 279-280

Paper money, 32, 111, 121, 122, 209

Parkman, Francis, 70, 72, 144, 163 " Particular plantations," 41 Past, lessons of, 355 Patroon estates, 80 Paxton Boys, 112

Pecks " New Guide to the West," 19

Penn, William, 262

Pennsylvania, 23, 27;  coast and