The frontier state, 1818-1848

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475 pages 1919

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Chapter headings are:

-The Land and the People
-The New State Government, 1818-1828
-Ten Years of State Finance
-The Convention Struggle
-The War on Ninian Edwards
-The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
-State Politics, 1830-1834
-The Last of the Indians
-The Settlement of the North
-The Internal Improvement System
-The Wreck of the Internal Improvement System, 1837-1842
-The Struggle for Party Regularity, 1834-1838
-The Whig and Democratic Parties; The Convention System
-The Passing of the Old Democracy
-State Politics, 1840-1847
-State and Private Banking, 1830-1845
-The Internal Improvement System: The Solution
-The Split of the Democratic Party, 1846-1848
-The Mormon War
-The Slavery Question
-Illinois in Ferment
-Social, Educational, and Religious Advance, 1830-1848
-Bibliography

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