A history of the United States for schools . Alaska. 118. The Unexpected Growth of Negro 1790 and 1820, the population of the UnitedStates increased from nearly four to nearly ten public revenue had increased twice as fast as thepopulation, that is, iivefold, from five to twenty-fiveWestward million dollars. Some of this increase of popu-growth. lation and business was always pushing west-ward in spite of grave obstacles, the chief of which hadbeen the danger from Indians and the difficulty of mov-ing persons and goods from place to place. But thevictories of Harris
A history of the United States for schools . Alaska. 118. The Unexpected Growth of Negro 1790 and 1820, the population of the UnitedStates increased from nearly four to nearly ten public revenue had increased twice as fast as thepopulation, that is, iivefold, from five to twenty-fiveWestward million dollars. Some of this increase of popu-growth. lation and business was always pushing west-ward in spite of grave obstacles, the chief of which hadbeen the danger from Indians and the difficulty of mov-ing persons and goods from place to place. But thevictories of Harrison and Jackson had overthrown theIndian power headlong as far as the Mississippi. As to locomotion, won-derful things hadlately been 1807, RobertFultons steam-boat, the Cler-mont, the firstsuccessful steam-boat, began run-ning up anddown the Hud-son River. In1811, a steamboat was launched on the Ohio River, atPittsburgh, the Gateway of the West, and it was notlong before the western rivers were lively with swift 1 From an old Fultons steamboat, the § ii8. WESTWARD EXPANSION. 313 little puffing and wheezing vessels, carrying settlerswith their household goods, farm produce and tools,bales of merchandise, traders, and land speculators. Assoon as the war was over, the effects of this began to beseen in the growing up of new western states. Indianawas added to the Union in 1816, Mississippi in 1817,Ilhnois in 1818, Alabama in 1819. With this westwardgrowth, a new and startling question was suddenly tospring up and disturb the quiet of the era of goodfeeling. It will be noticed that, in the admission of the above-named states to the Union, a kind of balance was pre-served between North and South ; Mississippi ,. ^ ? Keeping was a counterweight to Indiana, and Alabama theto Illinois. This was not an accident. It wasintended to keep the balance as even as possible betweenthe slave states and the states which had no slaves. Letus see why this was thought to
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