Lincoln Unbound (32 page)

Taylor, James, 38

Taylor, Zachary, 80, 93, 122–23

telegraph, 186–87

telephone, 191

Thomas, Benjamin, 42

Thomas, Jesse B., Jr., 82

Thomas, Richard, 108

Thoreau, Henry David, 119

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 197, 200

Toombs, Robert, 169

transportation: in American South, 150, 181; canal-­building, 116–17, 118; federalism and, 96; of goods and resources, 117–18; high-­speed rail, 231; Jackson, Hamilton, and Jefferson on infrastructure improvements, 96; Lincoln and infrastructure improvements, 45, 95–102, 111–13, 215; opening of the West, 173–74, 186; revolution in, 21, 121; rivers as highways, 37, 40–41, 43–44, 97, 118; roads of the frontier, 37, 97; steamboats, 37–38, 112–13.
See also
railroads

Trollope, Frances, 199, 200

Troy, Indiana, 38

Types of Mankind
(Nott), 145

Union Pacific Railroad, 172–73

United States: alcohol use on the frontier, 67–68, 223; Bank War, 103, 105; capitalism and, 87–123; class divide in, 7, 16, 207; closing of the Western frontier, 187; contemporary, Lincoln's vision and, 5; contemporary, loss of vitality, 198–99; as country of “self-­made” men, 57, 114–15; economic mobility in, 2, 3, 5, 6–7, 14, 16, 116, 148, 189, 191, 199–200, 204, 225; flag with 34 stars, 165; free West, 169, 170; global economy, share of, 209; government activism, 12, 13, 179; government dependence (welfare state), 5, 12, 16, 198–99, 213–15, 221, 224, 230–31; government growth, 11, 12, 184, 214; health insurance, 221; industrialization of, 15–16, 21, 107, 120, 121, 149, 168, 171–72, 191, 193; inequality in cultural capital, 204; inequality of income, 6–7, 202–3; as “an inestimable jewel,” 3; infrastructure, 9, 95–102; international influence, 15–16; as land of “promise to all the ­people of the world,” 165; Lincolnian plan to revitalize, 208–230; of Lincoln's boyhood, 20; Lincoln's formula for today's economic ills, 207; Lincoln's vision for, 167–68, 172, 183–84, 193, 198; middle-­class values, erosion of, 5, 204–5; Midwestern political power, 182–83; national currency, 105; as nation of aspiration and opportunity, 3, 164, 199–202, 210–11, 224; nullification crisis, 62, 106; oil-­and-­gas revival, 220–21; Panic of 1819, 59; Panic of 1837, 100; Panic of 1893, 186; politics and campaigns, as rowdy, 80–82; population growth, 20, 120, 167, 185; post-­bellum America as richest nation, 191; post-­World War II, 201–2; presidential campaigns of 1824 and 1828, 59–61; rudimentary cultural norms and, 222–23; rural isolation in, 5, 20, 21, 29, 30; social and cultural revival in, 223–25; temperance movement, 223; urban growth and, 15, 21, 39, 118–19, 120, 149; Westward expansion, 21, 133–35, 173–74, 177–79, 185, 186; as world power, 182, 184, 195

United States Constitution, 11, 95, 96, 228; slavery and, 155–56, 228, 229

United States Supreme Court, 160

Van Buren, Martin, 63, 85, 105, 106, 132

Vandalia, Illinois, 48, 100

Wallace, George, 161, 232

War of 1812, 57–58

Warren, Louis, 38

Washington, George, 96, 142, 155, 227–28

Wayland, Francis, 90–91

Weik, Jesse, 23n, 152, 153

Wentworth, John, 133

What Money Can't Buy
(Mayer), 223

Whig party, 56, 56n, 235; “American System,” 58; Clay and, 56–57; Colton as polemicist, 114–15; demise of, 135; Hamiltonian economics, 116; Harrison as candidate, 81, 85–86; infrastructure improvements and, 107; Lincoln and, 52, 53–57, 63–67, 86, 90–92, 114–15; Mary Todd Lincoln and, 80; origins of, 62–63; as “party of the rich,” 58; political ideas, 58, 90–92, 222; tariffs and, 106–7

White, Adam J., 96

White, Richard, 186

Whitman, Walt, 167

Whitney, Henry, 109, 164

Why Lincoln Matters
(Cuomo), 9

Wilmot, David, 138–39

Wilson, Douglas L., 23n

Wilson, Henry, 169

Wilson, Robert L., 83, 84

Wilson, Woodrow, 12, 180

Winship, Scott, 202–3

Wood, William, 35, 39

work ethic, 16, 59, 200, 224; Lincoln's, 4–5, 18, 20, 33, 74, 75, 76–77, 200; welfare state vs., 214–15

World War II, 15, 16, 180; U.S. economy and, 194–95, 201–2

Yancey, William Lowndes, 146, 170

Yankee Leviathan
(Bensel), 174

 

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Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years
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