INDEX

373

in the Mississippi Valley, 199, 200

Shays' Rebellion, 112, 119, 122, 249

Sheffield, 71

Sheldon, George, 58

Shenandoah Valley, 68, 90, 91, 92, 99, 105

Sherman, W. T., 142

Sibley, H. H. (1811-1891), 272, 273, 328

Silver movement, 238, 239, 329

Simsbury, 63

Singletary, Amos, 240

Sioux Indians, 130

Six Nations, 15, 83

Slavery question, 24, 29, 98, 111, 139, 304, 330; compromise movement, 174; democracy and, 256; expansion, 174; Middle West and, 139; Mississippi Valley and, 198, 201; Northwest and, 230; slaves as property, 115; Virginia and North Carolina, 122

Smith, Major Lawrence, 84

Social control, 277

Social forces, in American history, 311; mode of investigating, 330; on the Atlantic coast, 295; political institutions and, 243

Social mobility, 355

Social  order,  Mississippi Valley,

203-204; new, 263 Social reformers, 262-263 Socialism, 246, 277, 307, 321 Society, backwoods, 212; rebirth

of in the West, 205 Soils, 278, 279; search for, 18 Solid South, 217

South, 27, 166, 218; contribution to settlement of Old Northwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois), 223, 225-226; Ohio Valley and, 174; solid, 217;   transforming forces,

295; West and, 196, 197; see also Upland South South Carolina, 174; condition of antagonism between coast and interior, 116; land system, townships, 96; trade, 108 South Dakota, development, 237 Southeastern Europe, 294, 299, 316 Southerners and the Middle West,

133-134, 135, 138 Southwest, 297

Spain, 167, 181, 246; Mississippi Valley and, 184, 185

Spangenberg, A. G., 17

Spanish America 181, 182, 295

Spanish frontier, 125

Spanish War, 246

Speculation, 319

Spoils system, 32, 254

Spotswood, Alexander, 22, 88, 90, 91, 113, 247; Mississippi Valley and, 180

Spotsylvania County, Va., 90

Spreckles, Claus, 265

Squatter-sovereignty, 140

Squatters, 272, 343; doctrines, 273, 328; ideal, 320; Middle West, 137; Ohio Valley, 170; Pennsylvania in 1726, 101

Stark, John, 103-104

State historical societies, 340

State lines, 127

State universities, 221, 354; as safeguard of democracy, 286; Michigan, 233; peculiar power, 283-284; pioneer ideals and, 269, 281

States, checkerboard, 218; frontier pioneers' demand for statehood, 248; groups, 159; new states vs. Atlantic States, 207; System of, 168

Staunton, Va., 92

Steam navigation, 7, 135, Vl\

Steel, 313