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VIII Dominant Forces in Western Life
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The Old Northwest is a name which tells of the vestiges1 which the march of settlement across the American continent has left behind it. The New Northwest fronts the watery2 labyrinth3 of Puget Sound and awaits its destiny upon the Pacific. The Old Northwest, the historic Northwest Territory, is now the new Middle Region of the United States. A century ago it was a wilderness4, broken only by a few French settlements and the straggling American hamlets along the Ohio and its tributaries5, while, on the shore of Lake Erie, Moses Cleaveland had just led a handful of men to the Connecticut Reserve. To-day it is the keystone of the American Commonwealth6. Since 1860 the center of population of the United States has rested within its limits, and the center of manufacturing in the nation lies eight miles from President McKinley's Ohio home. Of the seven men who have been elected to the presidency7 of the United States since 1860, six have come from the Old Northwest, and the seventh came from the kindred region of western New York. The congressional Representatives from these five States of the Old Northwest already outnumber those from the old Middle States, and are three times as numerous as those from New England.
The elements that have contributed to the civilization of this region are therefore well worth consideration. To know the States that make up the Old Northwest—Ohio, Indiana, [223]Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin—one must understand their social origins.
Eldest8 in this sisterhood was Ohio. New England gave the formative impulses to this State by the part which the Ohio Company played in securing the Ordinance9 of 1787, and at Marietta and Cleveland Massachusetts and Connecticut planted enduring centers of Puritan influence. During the same period New
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残余部分( vestige的名词复数 ); 遗迹; 痕迹; 毫不 | |
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tributaries
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commonwealth
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eldest
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jersey
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colonists
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migration
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tempted
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abiding
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limestone
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northward
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distinguished
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ancestry
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affiliation
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ascendancy
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followers
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geographical
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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antagonisms
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prudent
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economist
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mediator
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unifying
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pathos
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opposition
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indifference
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potent
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antagonistic
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adj.敌对的 | |
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eastward
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adv.向东;adj.向东的;n.东方,东部 | |
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westward
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radically
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talisman
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treasury
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petroleum
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n.原油,石油 | |
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artery
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complexity
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affected
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bucolic
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destined
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differentiates
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区分,区别,辨别( differentiate的第三人称单数 ); 区别对待; 表明…间的差别,构成…间差别的特征 | |
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attest
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metropolis
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colossal
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spacious
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transformation
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