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dc.contributor.advisorSeger, Donnaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSwindell, Matthew G.
dc.creatorSwindell, Matthew G.en_US
dc.date2021-11-24T14:05:39.000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T11:34:18Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T11:34:18Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2021-08-31T11:13:14-07:00en_US
dc.identifierhonors_theses/337en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/820en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the 1880s, the town of Beverly, Massachusetts, was shaken to its core by a movement to divide the town and secure the independence of its wealthy Beverly Farms village. Soon, this municipal civil war threatened to thrust the Commonwealth of Massachusetts into political scandal. This thesis delves into the local background and national context of the Beverly division movement before tracing its progression from opposition to a street railway extension in 1885 to its pivotal point of near success in 1887. In the process, the paper discusses how, through embodiment of class division issues and concern over the growing influence of money in politics during the American Gilded Age, an effort to divide Beverly in two became the crisis of the Commonwealth.en_US
dc.titleDivision! The Crisis of the Commonwealth in Beverly's Civil Waren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.legacy.pubstatuspublisheden_US
dc.description.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.displayMay 2021en_US
dc.type.degreeBachelor of Arts (BA)en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitleHonors Thesesen_US
dc.legacy.identifierhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1337&context=honors_theses&unstamped=1en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritemhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/honors_theses/337en_US
dc.subject.keyword1880sen_US
dc.subject.keywordBeverlyen_US
dc.subject.keywordGilded Ageen_US
dc.subject.keywordMassachusettsen_US
dc.subject.keywordpoliticsen_US


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