DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH 373 



At the end of the war there were thirty six states, three 

 of which had been created since Lincoln's first election. These 

 were Kansas, admitted in January, 1861, a few weeks before 

 Buchanan stepped out of office; West Virginia, admitted about 

 the middle of the war; and Nevada, created just in time to 

 take part in the presidential canvass of 1864. The first state 

 created after Appomattox was Nebraska, which was let in in 

 1867. Nebraska was the original name of the whole territory 

 comprising the Kansas, Nebraska and other states of to-day. 

 It was organized as a territory at the same time as Kansas, in 

 1854. The more southerly territory, however, increased 

 faster in population, and was admitted just after the southern 

 members of the senate had left congress to follow their states 

 in secession. While Kansas had 106,000 population in 1860, 

 the year of Lincoln's election, Nebraska had only 28,000. 

 By 1870, however, Nebraska's inhabitants had increased to 

 122,000. The growth in the railway mileage of the north 

 and west accounted for most of this expansion. Colorado, 

 which had been trying to get in ever since 1861, when its popu- 

 lation was only about 35,000, succeeded in 1876, and became 

 the centennial state. Then thirteen years elapsed before any 

 more additions were made to the number of stars on the flag, 

 the longest time which had passed between successive state 

 creations except when Missouri, let in in Monroe's time, left 

 a gap of fifteen years before her nearest successor, Arkansas, 

 came in in the latter part of Jackson's second term. But a 

 large bunch of states came in together this time. The rail- 

 ways had been building up the country west of the Missouri. 

 Villard's and other roads had been carrying people over into 

 the shadow of the Rockies and beyond them quicker and 

 cheaper than they had gone from the western border of Penn- 

 sylvania over into Ohio two thirds of a century earlier. The 

 consequence was seen in 1889, when North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, Montana, and Washington came in nearly together, 

 and when Idaho and Wyoming were admitted a few months 

 later. This completed the roll as it is to-day, except that 

 Utah did not get in until 1896. 



But in some respects the south was by far the largest 

 gainer of all the sections through the collapse of the confed- 



