The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
Chapter 32
The Union in 1850--Comparative Population of Cities and Rural Districts --Agriculture the General Occupation--Commercial and Industrial Development--Growth of New York and Chicago--The Southern States-- Importance of the Cotton Crop--Why the South Was Sensitive to Anti-Slavery Agitation--Manufactures--Religion and Education--The Cloud on the Horizon, 272
THE SLAVERY CONFLICT.