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(Photo: Title: The story of American democracy, political and industrial (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidstoryofamericand01west) Year: 1922 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1922) (1920s (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1920) ) Authors:  West, Willis M. (Willis Mason), b. 1857 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWest__Willis_M___Willis_Mason___b__1857) Subjects:  Publisher:  Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherBoston__New_York__etc___Allyn_and_Bacon) Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress) Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorSloan_Foundation) Text Appearing Before Image: ka, southern Illinois,— had remained tributary commercially to New Orleans,by the river. Now this Northwest suddenly changed front.Farm machinery and the railway made it possible for it tofeed the growing Eastern cities and even to export thesurplus to Europe from Eastern ports. And this change intrade routes was more than economic. It completed thebreak in the old political alliance of South and West —already begun by the moral awakening on slavery — andforeshadowed a new political alliance of East and West.The merit of the Compromise of 1850 in our history is that 518 AMERICA IN 1860 it put off the war until this alliance was cemented and theNorthwest was, body and soul, on the side of the Union. In yet another way the improved reapers and threshers mayhe said to have icon the Civil War. Without such machinery,Northern grain fields could never have spared the men whomarched with Grant and Sherman. As it was, with half itsmen under arms, the Northwest increased its farm output. ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules http://johnbatchelorshow.com/blog Twitter: @BatchelorShow Biden's magical thinking electricity plan for 2035. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/bidens-clean-economy?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=40ac571c34-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_21_06_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-40ac571c34-72527561