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Singletary, Amos, 240

Sioux Indians, 130

Six Nations, 15, 83

Slavery question, 24, 29, 98, 111, 139, 304, 330; compromise movement, 174; democracy and, 256; expansion, 174; Middle West and, 139; Mississippi Valley and, 198, 201; Northwest and, 230; slaves as property, 115; Virginia and North Carolina, 122

Smith, Major Lawrence, 84

Social control, 277

Social forces, in American history, 311; mode of investigating, 330; on the Atlantic coast, 295; political institutions and, 243

Social mobility, 355

Social order, Mississippi Valley, 203-204; new, 263

Social reformers, 262-263

Socialism, 246, 277, 307, 321

Society, backwoods, 212; rebirth of in the West, 205

Soils, 278, 279; search for, 18

Solid South, 217

South, 27, 166, 218; contribution to settlement of Old Northwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois), 223, 225-226; Ohio Valley and, 174; solid, 217; transforming forces, 295; West and, 196, 197; see also Upland South

South Carolina, 174; condition of antagonism between coast and interior, 116; land system, townships, 96; trade, 108

South Dakota, development, 237

Southeastern Europe, 294, 299, 316

Southerners and the Middle West, 133-134, 135, 138

Southwest, 297

Spain, 167, 181, 246; Mississippi Valley and, 184, 185

Spangenburg, A. G., 17

Spanish America 181, 182, 295

Spanish frontier, 125

Spanish War, 246

Speculation, 319

Spoils system, 32, 254

Spotswood, Alexander, 22, 88, 90, 91, 113, 247; Mississippi Valley and, 180

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