American History

by Carnes, Mark C.

• ISBN13: 9780028649788
• ISBN10: 0028649788
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference

Summary

American History extracts a well-rounded selection of articles from Scribner's 8-vol. Dictionary of American History and its 2-vol. supplement, providing a concise ready-reference with extensive ties to the American history curriculum.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
A
Abnaki	1	(1)
Abortion	1	(3)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome	4	(3)
Adena	7	(1)
Advertising	8	(2)
Affirmative Action	10	(1)
African-American Religions and Sects	11	(2)
African Americans	13	(4)
African Methodist Episcopal Church	17	(1)
Afro-American Migration	17	(1)
Agrarian Movement	18	(1)
Agriculture, Department of	19	(1)
Air Force, United States	20	(6)
Aircraft, Development of	26	(3)
Alamo, Siege of the	29	(1)
Albany Congress	29	(1)
Alcatraz	30	(1)
Algonquin	30	(1)
Alien and Sedition Laws	31	(1)
Amana Community	31	(1)
Ambassadors	32	(1)
Amendments to the Constitution	32	(2)
America, Discovery and Early Exploration of	34	(2)
America First Committee	36	(1)
American Civil Liberties Union	36	(1)
American Colonization Society	36	(1)
American Expeditionary Forces	37	(1)
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations	37	(3)
American Indian Movement	40	(1)
American Labor Party	41	(1)
American Legion	41	(1)
American Party (Know-Nothings)	42	(1)
American Railway Union	42	(1)
Americans with Disabilities Act	42	(1)
Amistad Case	43	(1)
Amnesty	43	(1)
Anarchists	44	(1)
Andersonville Prison	45	(1)
Animal Protective Societies	45	(1)
Antifederalists	46	(1)
Anti-imperialists	47	(1)
Anti-Masonic Movements	48	(1)
Antinomian Controversy	49	(1)
Anti-Saloon League	50	(1)
Antislavery	50	(5)
Antitrust Laws	55	(1)
Antitrust Laws Since the 1960s	56	(1)
Apache	57	(1)
Apache Wars	58	(1)
Appalachia	58	(1)
Appomattox	59	(1)
Apprenticeship	60	(1)
Arab Americans	60	(1)
Arapaho	61	(1)
Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918	61	(1)
Arms Race with the Soviet Union	61	(2)
Disarmament Since SALT I	63	(4)
Army, Confederate	67	(1)
Arnold's Treason	68	(1)
Articles of Confederation	69	(1)
Article X	70	(1)
Asian Americans	71	(1)
Asian Religions and Sects	72	(1)
Assembly, Right of	73	(1)
Atlantic Charter	74	(1)
Atomic Bomb	74	(1)
Attica	75	(1)
Auburn Prison System	76	(1)
Automobile	77	(6)
Automobile Industry Since the 1970s	83	(3)
Aviation Industry	86	(5)
B
Bacon's Rebellion	91	(1)
Bad Lands	91	(1)
Bank Failures	91	(2)
Banking	93	(3)
Banking and Finance Since 1970	96	(2)
Bankruptcy Laws	98	(1)
Barbary Wars	99	(1)
Barnum's Museum	100	(1)
Baseball	100	(2)
Baseball Since 1970	102	(3)
Basketball	105	(2)
Bay of Pigs Invasion	107	(1)
Beirut Bombing	107	(1)
Berlin Airlift	108	(1)
Berlin Blockade	109	(1)
Bermuda Conference	109	(1)
Bicameral Legislatures	109	(1)
Bill of Rights	109	(4)
Black Codes	113	(1)
Blackfoot	113	(1)
Black Friday	114	(1)
Black Hawk War	114	(1)
Blacklisting	115	(1)
Black Panthers	115	(1)
Black Power	116	(1)
Bland-Allison Act	117	(1)
Bonus Army	117	(1)
Boomtowns	118	(1)
Bootlegging	118	(1)
Border States	119	(1)
Bosnia-Herzegovina	119	(1)
Boston Massacre	120	(1)
Boston Tea Party	121	(1)
Boxer Rebellion	121	(1)
Boycotting	121	(1)
Braddock's Expedition	122	(1)
Brady Photographs	123	(1)
Broadway	123	(1)
Brooklyn Bridge	124	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka	124	(1)
Budget, Federal	124	(1)
Bull Moose Party	125	(1)
Bunker Hill	125	(1)
Burr Conspiracy	126	(1)
Burr-Hamilton Duel	126	(1)
Burr Trial	127	(2)
C
Cabeza De Vaca, Travels of	129	(1)
Cabinet	129	(1)
Cabot Voyages	129	(1)
Cahokia	130	(1)
California Alien Land Law	130	(1)
Campaigns, Presidential	130	(17)
Campaigns, Presidential Since the 1970s	147	(3)
Canada, Relations with	150	(1)
Canals	150	(2)
Capital Punishment	152	(1)
Capital Punishment Since 1977	153	(1)
Capitalism	154	(1)
Carpetbaggers	155	(1)
Catholic Church	156	(2)
Cattle Drives	158	(1)
Cavalry, Horse	159	(1)
Centennial Exposition	160	(1)
Central Intelligence Agency	161	(2)
Central Pacific-Union Pacific Race	163	(1)
Challenger Disaster	163	(1)
Chartered Companies	164	(1)
Checks and Balances	164	(1)
Cherokee Trail	164	(1)
Cherokee Wars	165	(1)
Cheyenne	165	(1)
Chicago Fire	166	(1)
Chickasaw Treaty	167	(1)
Child Labor	167	(2)
Children's Rights	169	(1)
Chinese, U.S. Relations with	170	(1)
China Relations Since the 1970s	171	(3)
Chinese Americans	174	(2)
Chinese Exclusion Act	176	(1)
Chippewa	177	(1)
Chisholm Trail	177	(1)
Chisholm v. Georgia	178	(1)
Christina, Fort	178	(1)
Church of England in the Colonies	178	(1)
Citizenship	179	(1)
Civil Disobedience	179	(1)
Civilian Conservation Corps	180	(1)
Civil Rights and Liberties	181	(3)
Civil Rights Movement	184	(3)
Civil Rights Movement Since the 1960s	187	(3)
Civil Service	190	(1)
Civil War	191	(9)
Class Conflict	200	(1)
Clayton Antitrust Act	201	(1)
Clovis Culture	202	(1)
Coal Mining and Organized Labor	203	(1)
Coercion Acts	204	(1)
Cold War	205	(1)
Cold War Since the 1960s	206	(3)
Collective Bargaining	209	(3)
Colonial Policy, British	212	(1)
Colonial Settlements	213	(2)
Colonial Wars	215	(1)
Colt Six-Shooter	215	(1)
Columbia River Exploration and Settlement	216	(1)
Columbus Quincentenary	216	(1)
Comanche	217	(1)
Commerce, Department of	218	(1)
The DOC Since 1970	218	(1)
Committees of Correspondence	219	(1)
Common Sense	220	(1)
Communist Party, United States of America	220	(3)
Compromise of 1850	223	(1)
Computers	224	(5)
Comstock Lode	229	(1)
Confiscation Acts	229	(1)
Congress, United States	230	(3)
Congress Since the 1970s	233	(3)
Congressional Caucuses	236	(1)
Conquistadores	236	(1)
Conscientious Objectors	237	(1)
Conservation	238	(2)
Conservatism	240	(1)
Constitution	241	(1)
Constitution of the United States	241	(15)
Consumer Protection	256	(1)
Consumer Protection Since the 1970s	257	(1)
Continental Congress	258	(2)
Contraception	260	(1)
Cookery	261	(1)
Cooperatives, Farmers'	262	(1)
Copperheads	263	(1)
Coronado's Expedition	263	(1)
Corporations	264	(2)
Corruption, Political	266	(1)
Cotton	267	(3)
Cowboys	270	(1)
Coxey's Army	271	(1)
Creek War	272	(1)
Creoles	273	(1)
Crime	273	(2)
Crime Since the 1970s	275	(3)
Crime, Organized	278	(4)
Crittenden Compromise	282	(1)
``Cross of Gold'' Speech	283	(1)
Cuba, Relations with	283	(1)
Cuban Americans	283	(2)
Cuban Missile Crisis	285	(1)
Cumberland Road	286	(1)
Currier & Ives	287	(2)
D
Dakota	289	(1)
Dakota Territory	290	(1)
Dale's Laws of Virginia	290	(1)
Dawes General Allotment Act	290	(1)
Declaration of Independence	291	(4)
Defense, Department of	295	(2)
Deficit, Federal	297	(1)
Delaware	298	(1)
Democracy	299	(2)
Democratic Party	301	(1)
Democratic Party Since the 1960s	302	(2)
Demography	304	(1)
Demographic Changes	305	(2)
Desegregation	307	(2)
Disability Rights Movement	309	(1)
Dollar Diplomacy	310	(1)
Doughboy	311	(1)
Draft	311	(3)
The Draft Since the 1970s	314	(1)
Draft Riots	314	(1)
Dred Scott Case	314	(1)
Due Process of Law	315	(2)
Dumbarton Oaks Conference	317	(1)
Dust Bowl	318	(1)
Dutch-Indian War	318	(1)
Dutch West India Company	318	(1)
E
Education	319	(9)
Education in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s	328	(3)
Edwardsean Theology	331	(1)
Eighteenth Amendment	331	(1)
Eisenhower Doctrine	332	(1)
Election of the President	332	(1)
Elections	333	(1)
Electoral College	334	(1)
Eleventh Amendment	335	(1)
Ellis Island	336	(1)
Emancipation Proclamation	336	(2)
Embargo Act	338	(1)
Eminent Domain	338	(1)
English Settlement	339	(1)
Environmental Movement	339	(2)
Environmental Protection Agency	341	(2)
Equal Rights Amendment	343	(1)
Erie Canal	344	(1)
Eskimo	344	(2)
Espionage Act	346	(1)
Euthanasia	346	(1)
Executive and Congress	347	(1)
Executive Orders	348	(1)
Expansion	349	(1)
Extradition	350	(1)
Exxon Valdez	350	(3)
F
Fair Deal	353	(1)
Fair Labor Standards Act	353	(1)
Fair-Trade Laws	354	(1)
Family	355	(2)
Recent Challenges for the Family	357	(2)
Farmers' Alliance	359	(1)
Federal-Aid Highway Program	360	(1)
Federal Bureau of Investigation	360	(1)
Federal Communications Commission	361	(1)
Federal Government	362	(2)
Federalist Party	364	(1)
Federal Reserve System	365	(3)
The Federal Reserve System Since the 1970s	368	(1)
Fifteenth Amendment	369	(1)
Filibuster, Congressional	370	(1)
Finney Revivals	371	(1)
First Lady	371	(1)
Five-Power Naval Treaty	372	(1)
Folk Art	372	(2)
Folsom Culture Complex	374	(1)
Food and Drug Administration	374	(1)
Food and Drug Administration	375	(1)
Food Stamp Program	376	(1)
Football	376	(2)
Force Acts	378	(1)
Foreign Aid	379	(2)
Forty-Niners	381	(1)
Fourteen Points	382	(1)
Fourteenth Amendment	382	(1)
Fox	383	(1)
Franchise	383	(4)
Free Blacks	387	(1)
Freedmen's Bureau	388	(1)
Freedom of Information Act	389	(1)
Freedom of the Press	390	(2)
Recent Developments Regarding Freedom of the Press	392	(1)
Freedom of Religion	393	(1)
Freedom of Speech	394	(1)
Freedom of Speech Since the 1970s	394	(1)
Freedom Riders	395	(1)
Free Soil Party	396	(1)
Free Trade	396	(2)
Fremont's Explorations	398	(1)
French and Indian War	398	(3)
Frontier	401	(1)
Fugitive Slave Acts	402	(1)
Fundamentalism	403	(1)
Fur Trade	404	(3)
G
Gabriel's Insurrection	407	(1)
Gadsden Purchase	407	(1)
Gag Rule, Antislavery	407	(1)
Gambling	407	(2)
Gay and Lesbian Movement	409	(1)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade	410	(1)
Geneva Accords of 1954	411	(1)
Gerrymander	412	(1)
Gettysburg Address	413	(1)
Ghent, Treaty of	413	(1)
Ghost Dance	414	(1)
GI Bill of Rights	414	(1)
Gilded Age	415	(1)
Global Warming	415	(1)
Gold Standard	416	(2)
Golden Gate Bridge	418	(1)
Good Neighbor Policy	418	(1)
Grand Army of the Republic	419	(1)
Grandfather Clause	420	(1)
Granger Movement	420	(1)
Great Awakening	421	(1)
Great Migration	422	(1)
Great Plains	423	(1)
Great Society	424	(1)
Greenback Movement	424	(1)
Green Mountain Boys	425	(1)
Grenada Invasion	425	(1)
Guadalcanal	426	(1)
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of	427	(1)
Guerrillas	427	(1)
Gulf War of 1991	428	(3)
Gun Control	431	(1)
Gunboats	431	(2)
H
Habeas Corpus, Writ of	433	(1)
Half Moon	434	(1)
Halfway Covenant	434	(1)
Hamilton's Fiscal Policies	434	(2)
Handsome Lake Cult	436	(1)
Hartford Convention	436	(1)
Harvard University	437	(1)
Haymarket Riot	438	(1)
Health Care	439	(2)
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of	441	(1)
Health and Human Service, Department of	442	(1)
Health Maintenance Organizations	442	(1)
Hispanic Americans	443	(1)
Hiss Case	444	(1)
Home Rule	445	(1)
Homestead Movement	445	(1)
Homestead Strike of 1892	446	(1)
Hookworm	446	(1)
Hopewell	447	(1)
Hopi	447	(1)
Hostage Crises	448	(1)
House Committee on Un-American Activities	449	(1)
Housing	450	(1)
Housing in the Late Twentieth Century	451	(1)
Housing and Urban Development, Department of	452	(1)
Hudson River	453	(1)
Hudson's Bay Company	454	(1)
Huguenots	455	(1)
Human Rights	455	(1)
Human Rights During the Late Twentieth Century	456	(2)
Hydrogen Bomb	458	(1)
I
Immigration	459	(8)
Recent Trends in Immigration	467	(4)
Immigration Restriction	471	(1)
Impeachment	472	(2)
Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson	474	(1)
Imperialism	475	(1)
Impressment of Seamen	476	(1)
Income Tax Cases	477	(1)
Indentured Servants	478	(1)
Indian Affairs, Bureau of	479	(1)
Indian Land Cessions	480	(3)
Indian Policy, Colonial	483	(1)
Indian Policy, National	484	(2)
Indian Removal	486	(2)
Indian Territory	488	(1)
Industrial Revolution	488	(2)
Industrial Workers of the World	490	(1)
Inflation	491	(2)
Influenza	493	(1)
Interior, Department of the	494	(1)
Interstate Commerce Commission	495	(1)
Interstate Commerce Laws	496	(1)
Intolerable Acts	497	(1)
Iran-Contra Affair	497	(1)
Irish Americans	498	(1)
Ironclad Warships	499	(1)
Iroquois	500	(1)
Iroquois Treaty	501	(1)
Islam	501	(1)
Isolationism	502	(1)
Israel-Palestine Peace Accord	503	(1)
Italian Americans	504	(3)
J
Jacksonian Democracy	507	(1)
Jamestown	508	(1)
Japanese Americans	509	(1)
Japanese Exclusion Acts	510	(1)
Jay's Treaty	511	(1)
Jefferson-Burr Electoral Dispute	512	(1)
Jeffersonian Democracy	513	(1)
Jehovah's Witnesses	514	(1)
Jesuits	514	(1)
Jews, American	515	(1)
Jim Crow Laws	516	(1)
Jingoism	516	(1)
John Birch Society	517	(1)
Johnson Doctrine	517	(1)
Joint-Stock Land Banks	517	(1)
Jolliet and Marquette Discovery	518	(1)
Jonestown Massacre	518	(1)
Judicial Review	519	(2)
Judiciary	521	(5)
Jury Trial	526	(1)
Justice, Department of	527	(1)
Justice, Department of	528	(1)
K
Kansas-Nebraska Act	529	(2)
Kellogg-Briand Pact	531	(1)
Kennedy, John F., Assassination	531	(1)
Kent State Protest	531	(1)
King, Martin Luther, Assassination	532	(1)
King George's War	533	(1)
King Philip's War	533	(2)
King William's War	535	(1)
Kinsey Report	535	(1)
Klondike Rush	536	(1)
Knights of Labor	536	(1)
Korean Americans	537	(1)
Korean War	537	(2)
Ku Klux Klan	539	(4)
La Salle, Explorations of	543	(1)
Labor, Department of	543	(1)
Labor Parties	544	(1)
Labor Unions	545	(2)
Laissez-Faire	547	(1)
Land Policy	547	(1)
Latin America, Relations with	548	(3)
Latin American Policy Since 1970	551	(2)
Latter-Day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of	553	(1)
Mormonism Since World War II	554	(1)
League of Nations	555	(2)
League of Women Voters of the United States	557	(1)
Lecompton Constitution	557	(1)
Legal Tender	558	(1)
Legal Tender Act	558	(1)
Legislature	559	(1)
Lend-Lease	559	(1)
Lewis and Clark Expedition	560	(1)
Lexington and Concord	561	(1)
Liberal Republican Party	562	(1)
Liberalism	562	(1)
Liberalism Since the New Deal	563	(1)
Liberty Loans	563	(1)
Liberty Party	564	(1)
Libraries	564	(2)
Libraries in the Late Twentieth Century	566	(1)
Library of Congress	566	(2)
Library of Congress Since 1976	568	(1)
Lincoln, Assassination of	569	(1)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates	570	(1)
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case	571	(1)
Lindbergh's Atlantic Flight	571	(1)
Literacy Test	572	(1)
Literature	572	(5)
Literature Since 1970	577	(4)
Lobbies	581	(1)
Local Government	581	(3)
Log Cabin	584	(1)
Long Drive	584	(1)
Long, Huey, Assassination	584	(1)
Los Angeles Riots	584	(1)
Lost Generation	585	(1)
Louisiana Purchase	585	(2)
Loyalists	587	(1)
Loyalty Oaths	588	(1)
Lusitania, Sinking of the	589	(1)
Lynching	589	(2)
M
Magazines	591	(1)
Magazines Since World War II	592	(1)
Maine, Destruction of the	592	(1)
Majority Rule	593	(1)
Malaria	593	(1)
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara	594	(1)
Manhattan Project	595	(2)
``Manifest Destiny''	597	(1)
Mann Act	597	(1)
Manufacturing	597	(3)
Marbury v. Madison	600	(1)
Marriage and Divorce	601	(1)
Marshall Plan	602	(1)
Martial Law	603	(1)
Mason-Dixon Line	604	(1)
Massachusetts Bay Company	605	(1)
Mayflower	606	(1)
Mayflower Compact	607	(1)
Maysville Veto	607	(1)
McCarran-Walter Act	607	(1)
McCarthy-Army Hearings	608	(1)
McCormick Reaper	609	(1)
McCulloch v. Maryland	609	(1)
McGuffey's Readers	610	(1)
Meat Inspection Laws	610	(1)
Medicare and Medicaid	610	(2)
Medicine and Surgery	612	(4)
Medicine in the Late Twentieth Century	616	(2)
Mennonites	618	(1)
Mental Illness, Treatment of	618	(4)
Mercantilism	622	(1)
Methodists	623	(1)
Mexican Americans	624	(1)
Mexican War	625	(2)
Mexico, Gulf of	627	(1)
Mexico, Punitive Expedition into	627	(1)
Mexico, Relations with	628	(1)
Mexican Relations in the Late Twentieth Century	629	(1)
Middle East, Relations with	630	(3)
Middle Passage	633	(1)
Midnight Judges	633	(1)
Midway Islands	633	(1)
Migration, Group	634	(1)
Minimum-Wage Legislation	635	(2)
Minority Rights	637	(1)
Mint, Federal	638	(1)
Minutemen	638	(1)
Miranda v. Arizona	639	(1)
Miscegenation	639	(1)
Missions, Foreign	640	(1)
Missions, Frontier	640	(1)
Mississippian Cultures	641	(1)
Mississippi Valley	641	(1)
Missouri Compromise	642	(1)
Mobilization	643	(1)
Modoc War	644	(1)
Mohave	645	(1)
Molasses Act	645	(1)
Molly Maguires	646	(1)
Money	646	(4)
Monopoly	650	(1)
Monroe Doctrine	651	(2)
Montgomery Convention	653	(1)
Monticello	654	(1)
Montreal, Capture of	654	(1)
Moon Landing	655	(1)
Mormon Trail	656	(1)
Morrill Act	656	(1)
Most-Favored-Nation Principle	656	(1)
Mounds and Mound Builders	656	(2)
Mountain Men	658	(1)
Movies	658	(4)
Muckrakers	662	(1)
Mugwumps	662	(1)
Multiculturalism	663	(1)
Municipal Reform	663	(1)
Museums	664	(2)
Music, Classical	666	(1)
Music, Country and Western	667	(1)
Music, Jazz	668	(1)
Music, Rock and Roll	669	(1)
Music Television	669	(1)
Mutiny	670	(1)
N
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders	671	(1)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	671	(2)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	673	(1)
Naacp Since 1975	674	(1)
National Institutes of Health	674	(1)
Nih in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s	675	(1)
National Labor Relations Act	676	(1)
National Recovery Administration	677	(1)
National Republican Party	677	(1)
National Rifle Association	678	(1)
National Road	678	(1)
National Urban League	678	(1)
Native Americans	679	(2)
Nativism	681	(1)
Nat Turner's Rebellion	682	(1)
Naturalization	683	(1)
Navaho	684	(2)
Navigation Acts	686	(1)
Navy, United States	687	(10)
Neutrality	697	(3)
New Amsterdam	700	(1)
New Deal	701	(6)
New England	707	(1)
``New England Way''	708	(1)
New France	709	(1)
New Freedom	709	(1)
New Frontier	709	(1)
New Harmony Settlement	710	(1)
New Nationalism	710	(1)
New Netherland	710	(2)
New Plymouth Colony	712	(1)
New South	713	(2)
Newspapers	715	(12)
Newspapers Since the 1950s	727	(1)
Nez Perce War	728	(1)
Niagara Movement	728	(1)
Nineteenth Amendment	729	(1)
Nixon, Resignation of	729	(1)
North American Free Trade Agreement	730	(2)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization	732	(1)
Northwest Passage	733	(1)
Northwest Territory	734	(1)
Nuclear Power	734	(2)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	736	(1)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	736	(1)
Nullification	737	(1)
Nursing	738	(2)
Nursing Since the 1960s	740	(1)
O
Oil Crises	741	(1)
Oklahoma City Bombing	741	(1)
Oklahoma Squatters	742	(1)
``Old Hickory''	742	(1)
Old Northwest	742	(1)
Olive Branch Petition	743	(1)
Oneida Colony	743	(1)
Open Door Policy	744	(1)
Opinion Polls	745	(1)
Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787	746	(1)
Oregon Missions	747	(1)
Oregon Trail	747	(2)
Oregon Treaty of 1846	749	(1)
Organization of American States	749	(2)
P
Pacifism	751	(1)
Panama Canal Treaty	752	(1)
Panama, Declaration of	753	(1)
Panama Invasion	753	(1)
Panic of 1837	754	(1)
Panic of 1893	754	(1)
Panic of 1929	755	(1)
Paris, Treaty of (1763)	756	(1)
Paris, Peace of (1783)	757	(1)
Paris, Treaty of (1898)	757	(1)
Parks, National, and National Monuments	758	(2)
Parks, National	760	(1)
Patents and U.S. Patent Office	761	(1)
Patroons	762	(1)
Pawnee	763	(1)
Peace Corps	763	(1)
Peace Movements	764	(2)
Peace Movements Since the 1970s	766	(1)
Pearl Harbor	767	(2)
Pendleton Act	769	(1)
Pennsylvania Germans	769	(1)
Pentagon Papers	769	(2)
Pequot War	771	(1)
Perry's Expedition to Japan	771	(1)
Petition, Right of	772	(1)
Philadelphia Riots	773	(1)
Phonograph	773	(2)
Photographic Industry	775	(1)
Photography	776	(2)
Piedmont Region	778	(1)
Pikes Peak	778	(1)
Pike's Southwestern Expedition	778	(1)
Pike's Upper Mississippi Expedition	779	(1)
Pilgrims	779	(1)
Pioneers	780	(2)
Piracy	782	(1)
Plank Roads	782	(1)
Plantation System of the South	783	(1)
Plastics	784	(1)
Platt Amendment	785	(1)
Pledge of Allegiance	786	(1)
Plessy v. Ferguson	786	(1)
Pocket Veto	786	(1)
Polar Exploration	787	(2)
Police	789	(1)
Police Since the Early 1970s	790	(1)
Polish Americans	791	(1)
Political Action Committees	792	(1)
Political Cartoons	793	(1)
Polk Doctrine	794	(1)
Poll Tax	794	(1)
Polygamy	795	(1)
Ponce De Le on's Discovery	795	(1)
Pontiac's War	795	(1)
Pony Express	796	(1)
Poor Richard's Almanac	797	(1)
Popular Sovereignty	797	(1)
Populism	798	(2)
Postal Service, United States	800	(1)
Potomac River	800	(1)
Potsdam Conference	801	(1)
Poverty	801	(1)
Powell's Explorations	802	(1)
Powhatan Confederacy	802	(1)
Presbyterianism	803	(1)
Preservation Movement	804	(1)
President	805	(2)
Presidency	807	(3)
Presidential Succession	810	(1)
Price-Fixing	810	(1)
Primary, Direct	811	(1)
Printing Press, Early American	812	(1)
Prisoners of War and Missing in Action	812	(1)
Privateers and Privateering	813	(1)
Proclamation of 1763	814	(1)
Progressive Movement	815	(2)
Progressive Party	817	(1)
Prohibition	817	(2)
Prohibition Party	819	(1)
Property Qualifications	819	(1)
Prospectors	819	(1)
Protestantism	820	(2)
Public Domain	822	(3)
Public Land Commissions	825	(1)
Public Opinion	826	(2)
Pueblo Revolt	828	(1)
Puerto Rican Americans	828	(1)
Pullman Strike	829	(1)
Punishment, Cruel and Unusual	830	(1)
Puritans and Puritanism	830	(3)
Q
Quakers	833	(1)
Quartering Act	834	(1)
Queen Anne's War	835	(2)
R
Radical Republicans	837	(1)
Radicals and Radicalism	838	(1)
Radio	839	(2)
Railroads	841	(14)
Railroad Strike of 1877	855	(1)
Railroad Strikes of 1886	855	(1)
Raleigh's Lost Colony	855	(1)
Raleigh's Patent and First Colony	856	(1)
Reaganomics	857	(1)
Reciprocal Trade Agreements	857	(2)
Reconstruction	859	(3)
Reconstruction Acts	862	(1)
Red River Indian War	863	(1)
Referendum	863	(1)
Reformed Churches	864	(1)
Registration of Voters	864	(1)
Regulators	865	(1)
Religious Liberty	865	(1)
Removal Act of 1830	866	(1)
Reparation Commission	866	(1)
Representation	867	(1)
Representative Government	868	(1)
Republican Party	869	(1)
Republican Party from 1968 until Present Day	870	(3)
Reservation System, Termination of	873	(1)
Reserved Powers of States	873	(1)
Reserved Powers of the People	874	(1)
Resettlement Administration	875	(1)
Resolution, Legislative	875	(1)
Revenue, Public	875	(1)
Revolution, American	876	(13)
Revolutionary War, American Army in the	889	(2)
Revolutionary War, British Army in the	891	(1)
Revolutionary War, Foreign Volunteers in	892	(1)
Riots	892	(2)
Roanoke Island, Capture of	894	(1)
Robber Barons	894	(1)
Rockefeller Foundation	895	(1)
Rocky Mountains	895	(1)
Roe v. Wade	896	(1)
Rosenburg Case	897	(1)
Rough Riders	897	(2)
S
Sacco-Vanzetti Case	899	(1)
Sand Creek Massacre	899	(1)
Sauk Prairie	900	(1)
Savings and Loan Crisis	900	(1)
Scab	901	(1)
Scalawag	902	(1)
Scopes Trial	902	(1)
Scotch-Irish	903	(1)
Scottsboro Case	904	(1)
Search and Seizure, Unreasonable	904	(1)
Secession, Ordinance of	905	(1)
Secession, Right of	905	(1)
Secession of Southern States	906	(1)
Secret Service, United States	907	(1)
Secret Societies	908	(1)
Sectionalism	908	(2)
Sedition Acts	910	(1)
Segregation	910	(2)
Seminole	912	(1)
Seminole Wars	913	(1)
Seventeenth Amendment	914	(1)
Shakers	914	(1)
Sharecropper	915	(1)
Shawnee	916	(1)
Shawnee and Delaware Migration	916	(1)
Shays's Rebellion	916	(1)
Shenandoah Valley	917	(1)
Sherman Antitrust Act	918	(1)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act	918	(1)
Shipbuilding	919	(1)
Shipping Act of 1916	920	(1)
Silver Democrats	920	(1)
Silver Prospecting and Mining	921	(1)
Sioux Wars	921	(1)
Sixteenth Amendment	922	(1)
Skyscrapers	922	(1)
Slave Insurrections	923	(1)
Slavery	924	(5)
Slave States	929	(1)
Slave Trade	929	(3)
Slums	932	(1)
Smallpox	933	(2)
Smith Act	935	(1)
Smith Explorations	935	(1)
Social Gospel	935	(1)
Socialist Movement	936	(1)
Socialist Party of America	937	(1)
Social Security	938	(1)
Social Work	939	(1)
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children	940	(1)
Soldiers and Sailors Conventions	940	(1)
Sons of Liberty (American Revolution)	940	(1)
Sons of Liberty (Civil War)	941	(1)
Sooners	941	(1)
South, Antebellum	941	(3)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference	944	(1)
South Pass	944	(1)
Space Program	945	(2)
Spanish-American War	947	(2)
Speaker of the House of Representatives	949	(1)
Specie Payments, Suspension and Resumption of	950	(2)
Spies	952	(2)
Spoils System	954	(1)
``Square Deal''	955	(1)
Stamp Act	955	(1)
Stamp Act Congress	956	(1)
Standard Oil Company	956	(1)
``Star-Spangled Banner''	957	(1)
Starving Time	958	(1)
State Constitutions	958	(2)
State, Department of	960	(2)
States' Rights	962	(1)
Statue of Liberty	963	(1)
Steamboats	963	(1)
Steam Power and Engines	964	(1)
Steel Strikes	965	(1)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt)	966	(1)
Strategic Defense Initiative (Sdi)	967	(1)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee	968	(1)
Subways	968	(1)
Suffrage, Exclusion from the	969	(1)
Sugar Acts	970	(1)
Sugar Industry	971	(1)
Summit Conferences, Presidential	971	(2)
Sumter, Fort	973	(1)
Supreme Court	973	(2)
Supreme Court After the Warren Court	975	(2)
Sweatshop	977	(2)
T
Taft-Hartley Act	979	(1)
Tammany Hall	980	(1)
Tariff	981	(11)
Taxation	992	(11)
Teapot Dome Oil Scandal	1003	(1)
Telecommunications	1004	(1)
Telegraph	1005	(1)
Telephone	1006	(1)
Television	1007	(1)
Television at the End of the Twentieth Century	1008	(1)
Teller Amendment	1009	(1)
Temperance Movement	1010	(1)
Tenements	1011	(1)
Ten-Forties	1012	(1)
Tennessee Valley Authority	1012	(1)
Tenure of Office Act	1013	(1)
Territories of the United States	1014	(1)
Terrorism	1015	(1)
Texas v. White	1016	(1)
Textiles	1016	(3)
Thanksgiving Day	1019	(1)
Theater	1020	(4)
Theater Since the 1960s	1024	(1)
Third Parties	1025	(1)
Third Parties and Independents	1026	(1)
Thirteenth Amendment	1027	(1)
Three Mile Island	1028	(1)
Tidewater	1028	(1)
Titanic, Sinking of the	1029	(1)
Tobacco Industry	1029	(1)
Tobacco Industry Since the 1970s	1030	(2)
Toleration Acts	1032	(1)
Tom Thumb	1033	(1)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution	1033	(1)
Torpedo Warfare	1033	(1)
Townshend Acts	1034	(1)
Trading Posts, Frontier	1035	(1)
Trail of Tears	1036	(1)
Train Robberies	1036	(1)
Transcendentalism	1036	(1)
Transportation, Department of	1037	(1)
Trapping	1038	(1)
Treason	1039	(1)
Treasury, United States	1039	(1)
Treasury, Department of the	1040	(1)
Treaties with Foreign Nations	1041	(3)
Trespass Act	1044	(1)
Triangular Trade	1045	(1)
Truman Doctrine	1046	(1)
``Trust-Busting''	1046	(1)
Trusts	1046	(3)
Tuberculosis	1049	(2)
Tuscarora War	1051	(1)
Tuskegee Institute	1051	(1)
Tweed Ring	1051	(1)
Twelfth Amendment	1052	(1)
Twenty-First Amendment	1053	(1)
Twenty-Second Amendment	1053	(1)
Twenty-Third Amendment	1053	(1)
Twenty-Fourth Amendment	1053	(1)
Twenty-Fifth Amendment	1053	(1)
Twenty-Sixth Amendment	1054	(1)
Two-Party System	1054	(1)
Two-Thirds Rule	1055	(2)
U
``Uncle Sam''	1057	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly	1057	(1)
Underground Railroad	1057	(1)
Unicameral Legislatures	1058	(1)
Union Pacific Railroad	1059	(1)
Union Party	1060	(1)
United Mine Workers of America	1060	(1)
United Nations	1060	(4)
United States of America	1064	(1)
United States v. Knight Company	1064	(1)
Urban Living	1064	(3)
V
Vaudeville	1067	(1)
Veracruz Incident	1067	(1)
Versailles, Treaty of	1068	(1)
Vesey Rebellion	1069	(1)
Veterans Affairs, Department of	1069	(1)
Veto Power of the President	1069	(1)
Vice Presidency	1070	(1)
Vice Presidency at the End of the Twentieth Century	1071	(1)
Vietnam War	1072	(3)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions	1075	(1)
Virginia Company of London	1075	(2)
Virginia Declaration of Rights	1077	(1)
Virginia Resolves	1077	(1)
Volstead Act	1077	(1)
Volunteerism	1078	(1)
Voting	1078	(1)
Voting Rights Act of 1965	1079	(2)
W
Waco Siege	1081	(1)
Wade-Davis Bill	1081	(1)
Wagon Trains	1081	(2)
Wall Street	1083	(1)
Wall Street Since the 1970s	1084	(2)
Wampum	1086	(1)
Wappinger Confederacy	1087	(1)
War Crimes Trials	1087	(1)
War, Declaration of	1087	(1)
War Department	1088	(1)
War Finance Corporation	1089	(1)
War Hawks	1090	(1)
War Industries Board	1090	(1)
War Labor Board	1090	(1)
War of 1812	1091	(3)
War Opposition Organizations	1094	(1)
War Powers Act	1095	(1)
Warren Commission	1096	(1)
Warships	1096	(4)
Washington Naval Conference	1100	(1)
Washington's Farewell Address	1101	(1)
Watergate, Aftermath of	1101	(2)
Welfare	1103	(1)
Wells, Fargo and Company	1104	(1)
Western Exploration	1105	(2)
Western Union Telegraph Company	1107	(1)
Westward Movement	1107	(3)
Wheat	1110	(1)
Whig Party	1111	(1)
Whiskey	1111	(1)
Whiskey Rebellion	1112	(1)
White House	1113	(1)
White Supremacists	1114	(1)
``Wigwam''	1114	(1)
Wildcat Money	1114	(1)
Wildcat Oil Drilling	1114	(1)
Wilderness Road	1115	(1)
Wildlife Preservation	1115	(2)
Wilmot Proviso	1117	(1)
Winnebago	1117	(1)
Witchcraft	1118	(1)
Woman's Christian Temperance Union	1119	(1)
Woman's Party, National	1120	(1)
Woman's Rights Movement	1120	(2)
Women's Movement Since the 1970s	1122	(3)
Woodstock	1125	(1)
Works Progress Administration	1125	(2)
World War I	1127	(3)
World War II	1130	(7)
World's Fairs	1137	(1)
Writs of Assistance	1138	(1)
X
Xyz Affair	1139	(2)
Y
Yalta Conference	1141	(1)
Yankee	1141	(1)
``Yellow-Dog'' Contract	1142	(1)
Yellow Fever	1142	(1)
Yellow Journalism	1143	(1)
Yellowstone National Park	1143	(1)
Yosemite National Park	1144	(1)
Yurok	1145	(2)
Z
Zenger Trial	1147	(1)
Zimmerman Telegram	1147	(2)
Index	1149