Part 47

Pioneers, conservative fears about, 251, 252; contest with capitalist, 325; contrast of conditions, 279; deeper significance, 338; essence, 271; ideals and the State university, 269; Middle West, 146, 154; Ohio Valley, 167; old ideals, 148; sketch, 19

Pittsburgh, 104, 127, 136, 154-155, 161, 265, 299, 314, 324

Plain people, 256, 267

Political institutions, 243; frontier and, 24

Political parties, 249, 324

Polk, J. K., 105, 192, 255

Pontiac, 131, 144

Poor whites, 224

Population center, 222

Populists, 32, 127, 147, 155, 203, 220, 247, 277, 281, 305; Kansas, 238

Prairie Plains, 129

Prairie states, 239

Prairies, 218, 236, 276, 348; settlement, 145, 147

Presbyterians, 105, 106, 109, 164

Presidency, 254; Mississippi Valley and, 192; Ohio Valley and, 175; Old Northwest and, 222

Prices, 313

Princeton college, 106

Pritchett, H. S., 282

Privilege, 192; conflict against, 120, 121

Proclamation of 1763, 181

Progressive Republican movement, 321

Prohibitionists, 240

"Proletariat," 285

Property, 210; as basis of suffrage, 249

Prosperity, 281

Protection. See Tariff

Provinces, geographic, 158

Provincialism, desirable, 157, 159