Excerpt from Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Together With the Agricultural History Society, the American Association for State and Local History, the American Studies Association, the Lexington Group, the Southern Historical Association: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 26, 27, and 28, 1962 A vivid presentation Of the development of the United States from a loose confederation of states into a federal union strong enough to survive the strain of civil war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.