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The frontier state, 1818-1848
Chapter headings are: -The Land and the People -The New State Government, 1818-1828 -Ten Years of State Finance -The Convention Struggle -The War on Ninian Edwards -The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy -State Politics, 1830-1834 -The Last of the Indians -The Settlement of the North -The Internal Improvement System -The Wreck of the Internal Improvement System, 1837-1842 -The Struggle for Party Regularity, 1834-1838 -The Whig and Democratic Parties; The Convention System -The Passing of the Old Democracy -State Politics, 1840-1847 -State and Private Banking, 1830-1845 -The Internal Improvement System: The Solution -The Split of the Democratic Party, 1846-1848 -The Mormon War -The Slavery Question -Illinois in Ferment -Social, Educational, and Religious Advance, 1830-1848 -Bibliography