American territorial development

Caldwell Howard W. (Howard Walter) 1858-

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Territorial Development
SOURCE EXTRACTS
BY
W. A.M.HOWARD CALDWELL,
PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
ILLINOISCHICAGO,
H. PUBLISHERJ. MILLER,
1900 ftCOPYRIGHTED, 1900,
BY
J. H. MILLER.EL
CL
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface v
Colonial Claims 1
First National Boundaries 25
Northwest 51Territory
of Louisiana 75Acquisition
Purchase of Florida 103
ofAnnexation Texas 129
andCalifornia New Mexico , 153
and 177Oregon
and HawaiiAlaska 201
Porto Kico and The 229Philippines3
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PKEFACE
have been morequestions fundamental
in American than those connectedhistoryFEW
with its territorial Some ofdevelopment.
the most debates that ever tookexciting place
in were connected with thisCongress subject.
In fact it will be foundperhaps ultimately
that all the in-nearly great political, social,
and economic of ourdustrial, questions history
be unified moremay perfectly by connecting
de-them with the frontier and the territorial
of the than from othervelopment country any
of view. Professor Von Hoist has madepoint
us almost believe that the should begrouping
around the ofquestion slavery. However,
much be said in favor of another view.may
be wasIt found that itselfmay slavery only
an in of a newtheepisode opening up country
to habitation and civilization. slav-Certainly
a national when itbecameery only question
became connected with the territorial issue.
The admission Missouri in 1820 wasof fought
over so because of the existencestrenuously
of a Othervast ofempire unoccupied country.
illustrations of a similar nature bemightVI PBEFAOB
drawn from other of our national his-periods
but does not atten-tory, space permit calling
tion to them in this connection.
Now if we turn to other important questions
in our we find even more conclusivehistory
of their close and intimate connectionproofs
with the territorial theproblem. Nearly
whole of the contests internal im-concerning
be connected withprovements may directly
the territorial The recent annex-acquisitions.
ations to lead to a new ofpromise application
this in the of aprinciple way building up
and the construction ofmarine,great great
Inter-Oceanic canals. of theMany phases
tariff discussions be found to bemay directly
involved in this and at thesubject, just pres-
ent moment the of thepolitical campaign year
in on this of thehinges part aspect question.
The has been to amoney problem always
or less connected with an eastgreater degree
and a an old and a new a well-west, section,
and a frontier But the frontiersettled region.
has ever been westward the an-advancing by
nexation of new territory.
These are tosuggestions perhaps enough
a further in this ifarouse interest subject
there be need to increase itsany intensity.
The real if there be lies not in adanger, one,
lack of but in a failure tointerest, appreciate
its will befundamental character. Precedents
cited without due to determineinvestigation
whether the cases are similar. Conclusions