A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 60

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

LX THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES The region of the world that displayed the most immediate and striking results from the new inventions in transport was North America. Politically the United States embodied, and its constitution crystallized, the ...Read Moreideas of the middle eighteenth century. It dispensed with state-church or crown, it would have no titles, it protected property very jealously as a method of freedom, and—the exact practice varied at first in the different states—it gave nearly every adult male citizen a vote. Its method of voting was barbarically crude, and as a consequence its political life fell Read Less