. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ope,the eastern side a desert, the western Asiatic in character;and, on the rapid Pacific incline, the moist, genial atmosphereof Great Britain and Spain; — a series of zones with allthe contrasts of nature. . The imperial Republic hasa Persia, an India, a Palestine, a Tartary of its own. 342 THE AMERICA OF 1800 These diverse zones Iroiii east to west had Kttle oppor-tunity, however, to operate in hostility to political American people did not come under their influence atall until just before the great Civil War. The ques
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . ope,the eastern side a desert, the western Asiatic in character;and, on the rapid Pacific incline, the moist, genial atmosphereof Great Britain and Spain; — a series of zones with allthe contrasts of nature. . The imperial Republic hasa Persia, an India, a Palestine, a Tartary of its own. 342 THE AMERICA OF 1800 These diverse zones Iroiii east to west had Kttle oppor-tunity, however, to operate in hostility to political American people did not come under their influence atall until just before the great Civil War. The question ofUnion or Disunion teas settled for generations to come bymen reared under the influence of the uniform eastern half ofthe continent. 2. The lines of 22 and 41 degrees Fahrenheit, for January,may be taken as convenient bounds for the true temperatezone (map, page 2). By those, or any other suitable lines ofequal temperature, the climatic temperate zone in NorthAmerica (in the interior as on the coast) is far narrower than 100 West from Greenwich. Sectional Elevation of the United States in Latitude 40° North. (AfterDraper- Elevations magnified.) y-o, sea level; o, Appalachian crest; b, Mississippi; c, beginning of saline plains; d—e. GreatSalt Lake region; e-f, great elevated basin; /, Coast range; o-c, Atlantic section; c-p. Pacificsection. The slope bd is more than 1000 miles long, up to the mountain passes, which are about 10,000feet above the sea (with peaks rising 4000 or 4300 feet higher.) The true rise, therefore, is lessthan 10 feet to a mile. in Europe. Its width in Europe is one of the causes forthat continents becoming the earliest home of true civi-lization. Its narrowness in America is in itself a conditionunfavorable to progress; but this influence was minimizedby the late date of settlement and the advanced civilizationof the early settlers. Population had doubled since the Revolution opened, andin 1800 it counted 5,308,483, or more than a third thepop
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