Part 45

Norfolk, 195

North Carolina, 87, 106; coast vs. upland, 116; in Indiana Settlement, 224; public lands, 95; settlement, 94, 95; slavery, 122; taxation, 118, 119

North Central States, 126; region as a whole, 341

North Dakota, development, 237

Northampton, 63

Northfield, 53

Northwest, democracy, 356; Old and New, 222; see also Old Northwest

Northwest Territory, 222

Northwestern boundary, 324

Norton, C. E., 208-209

Norwegians, 232

Nullification, 117, 254

Ohio, diversity of interests, 231-232; elements of settlement, 223; history, 133-134; New England element, 223; Southern contribution to settlement, 223

Ohio Company, 123, 133, 141, 182, 223

Ohio River, 5, 161

Ohio Valley, 104; as a highway, 162; economic legislation and, 170; effects on national expansion, 166; in American history, 157; influence on Lincoln, 175; part in making of the nation, 160; physiography, 160-161; relation to the South, 174; religious spirit, 164, 165; stock and settlement, 164

Oil wells, 297

Oklahoma, 278, 297

Old National road, 136

Old Northwest, 131, 132, 136, 221; as a whole, 241-242; defined, 218; elements of settlement, 222; political position, 236; social origin, 222-223; Southern element in settlement, 223, 225-226; turning point of control, 229

"Old South," 166

Old West, colonization of areas beyond the mountains, 124; consequences of formation, 106; New South and, 100; summary of frontier movement in 17th and early 18th centuries, 98; term defined, 68

Old World, 261, 267, 294, 299, 344, 349; effect of American frontier, 22; West and, 206, 210

Opportunity, 37, 212, 239, 259-260, 261, 263, 271-272, 342, 343

Orangeburg, 96

Ordinance of 1787, 25, 132, 168, 190, 223

Oregon country, 144

Orient, 297