Excerpt from Great Epochs in American History, Vol. 7 of 10: Described by Famous Writers From Columbus to Roosevelt Exactly twenty years had now gone by since the Missouri Compromise became a law. That famous instrument for promoting tranquillity be tween the North and South had been followed by internal peace as to slavery; but it has quite other distinction for services rendered to the Re public. More to it than to any other cause is prob ably due that long period of national repose in which undisturbed were ushered in western ex pension, new and more expeditious transportation methods, manufacturing enterprises, the sewing machine, the rotary printing-press, and machine implements for farming. 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.