The Encyclopedia of American Political History

by Finkelman, Paul; Wallenstein, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781568025117
• ISBN10: 1568025114
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

Particularly helpful to anyone hoping to understand the evolution and intricacies of the modern American political process, The Encyclopedia of American Political History identifies the most significant personalities, trends, campaigns and elections, protests and rebellions, laws, statutes, and policies in American political history.

Alphabetically organized for easy access to include:
-- A complete chronology and an at-a-glance timeline of American political history, which helps establish a context for key figures, events, and concepts
-- More than 240 signed, original articles by prominent scholars o American political history, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced by subject for easy access
-- A glossary of frequently used abbreviations and their meanings as well as historical summaries of presidential election results for quick lookup
-- Thorough historical coverage beginning with the late 1700s.
-- Over 150 photographs, illustrations, maps, and tables to provide a rich visual presentation
-- Detailed index for easy searching an

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
About the Editors	xiii
Contributors	xv
Descriptive Time Line of Political Events in U.S. History	xxi
Adams, John	1	(1)
Adams, John Quincy	2	(1)
Affirmative Action	3	(3)
African American Politics	6	(3)
American Independent Party	9	(1)
American Revolution	9	(4)
Anti-Masonic Party	13	(1)
Antitrust	14	(2)
Apportionment	16	(3)
Arthur, Chester A.	19	(1)
Articles of Confederation	19	(4)
Bank War	23	(1)
Bill of Rights	24	(2)
Black Panthers	26	(1)
Black Suffrage	26	(4)
Bonus March	30	(1)
Breckinridge Democrats	30	(1)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka	31	(2)
Buchanan, James	33	(1)
Buckley v. Valeo	34	(1)
Bush, George	35	(4)
Cabinet	39	(3)
Calhoun, John C.	42	(1)
Campaign Finance	43	(3)
Campaigning	46	(5)
Carter, Jimmy	51	(2)
Census	53	(4)
Civil-Military Relations	57	(4)
Civil Rights Act of 1866	61	(1)
Civil Rights Act of 1875	62	(2)
Civil Rights Acts (Modern)	64	(3)
Civil Rights Movement	67	(4)
Civil Unrest and Rioting	71	(5)
Civil War	76	(3)
Cleveland, Grover	79	(1)
Clinton, Bill	80	(4)
Clinton-Era Scandals	84	(2)
Cloture	86	(1)
Cold War	86	(6)
Committee System	92	(2)
Communist Party USA	94	(1)
Compromise of 1850	95	(2)
Compromise of 1877	97	(1)
Comstock Act	98	(1)
Congress	99	(4)
Congressional Budget Office	103	(1)
Conservative Party	104	(1)
Constitution, Ratification	104	(2)
Constitution, U.S.	106	(3)
Constitutional Amendments	109	(3)
Constitutional Convention	112	(3)
Constitutional Union Party	115	(1)
Coolidge, Calvin	115	(1)
Coxey's Army	115	(1)
Credit Mobilier Scandal	116	(1)
Currency and Money Supply	117	(2)
Declaration of Independence	119	(2)
Democratic Party	121	(5)
Dixiecrats (States' Rights Party)	126	(3)
Eaton Affair	129	(1)
Economic Sanctions	130	(1)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	131	(3)
Electoral College	134	(1)
Emancipation Proclamation	135	(1)
Embargo	136	(1)
Equal Rights Amendment	137	(2)
Fair Deal	139	(1)
Federal Housing Programs	140	(1)
Federal Reserve System	141	(1)
Federalism	142	(2)
Federalists	144	(1)
Filibuster	145	(1)
Fillmore, Millard	146	(1)
Ford, Gerald R.	146	(1)
Free Soil Party	147	(1)
Freedmen's Bureau Acts	148	(2)
Fugitive Slave Laws	150	(3)
Gag Rule	153	(1)
Garfield, James A.	153	(1)
Gerrymandering	154	(2)
G.I. Bill	156	(1)
Gilded Age	157	(2)
Grant, Ulysses S.	159	(2)
Great Depression	161	(2)
Great Society	163	(2)
Gun Control and Policy	165	(4)
Harding, Warren G.	169	(1)
Harrison, Benjamin	170	(1)
Harrison, William Henry	170	(1)
Hartford Convention Resolutions	171	(1)
Hayes, Rutherford B.	172	(1)
Higher Education Act	172	(1)
Hoover, Herbert C.	173	(2)
House Leadership: Speaker	175	(2)
Immigration and Naturalization: Society and Politics	177	(4)
Immigration and Naturalization: Twentieth-Century Law and Policy	181	(2)
Impeachment	183	(3)
Independent Counsel	186	(2)
Indian Policy	188	(4)
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall	192	(1)
Interest Groups	192	(4)
Interstate Highway System	196	(2)
Iran-Contra Scandal	198	(3)
Jackson, Andrew	201	(3)
Jacksonian Democracy	204	(1)
Jefferson, Thomas	205	(3)
Jeffersonian Democracy	208	(1)
Johnson, Andrew	209	(1)
Johnson, Lyndon B.	210	(2)
Judiciary Acts	212	(3)
Kansas-Nebraska Act	215	(1)
Kennedy, John F.	216	(2)
Know Nothing (American) Party	218	(1)
Koreagate	219	(1)
Korean War	220	(3)
Labor Politics and Policies	223	(5)
Landslide Elections	228	(1)
Liberal Party	229	(1)
Liberty Party	230	(1)
Lincoln, Abraham	230	(4)
Lobbyists	234	(1)
Local Government	235	(2)
Logan Act	237	(2)
Madison, James	239	(3)
Manifest Destiny	242	(1)
Marches on Washington	243	(4)
McCarthyism	247	(2)
McKinley, William	249	(2)
Mexican-American War	251	(1)
Missouri Compromise	252	(2)
Monroe, James	254	(1)
Morrill Land-Grant College Acts	255	(2)
National Debt	257	(1)
National Security Document 68	258	(1)
National Woman's Party	258	(1)
Nativism	259	(1)
New Deal	260	(4)
New Freedom	264	(1)
New Frontier	265	(2)
New Nationalism	267	(1)
Newspapers and Political Parties	268	(2)
Nixon, Richard M.	270	(4)
Northwest Ordinance	274	(1)
Nullification	275	(2)
Office of Management and Budget	277	(2)
Panic of 1819	279	(1)
Panic of 1837	280	(1)
Panic of 1857	281	(1)
Panic of 1893	281	(2)
Peace and Freedom Party	283	(1)
Persian Gulf War	283	(3)
Petition Campaigns	286	(1)
Pierce, Franklin	287	(1)
Political Action Committees	287	(2)
Political Contributions in the Late Nineteenth Century	289	(1)
Political Parties	289	(5)
Polk, James K.	294	(1)
Poll Tax	295	(2)
Polling and Public Opinion	297	(3)
Popular Sovereignty	300	(1)
Populist (People's) Party	300	(1)
Presidency	301	(4)
Presidential Elections	305	(1)
Presidential Succession Amendments	306	(2)
Private and Public Welfare, Pre-New Deal	308	(2)
Progressive Era	310	(2)
Progressive Labor Party	312	(1)
Progressive Party (H. Wallace)	312	(1)
Progressive Party (La Follette)	313	(1)
Prohibition and Temperance	313	(2)
Rainbow Coalition	315	(1)
Reagan, Ronald	315	(2)
Reapportionment Cases	317	(2)
Reconstruction	319	(4)
Red Scare	323	(1)
Reform Party	324	(1)
Reproductive Rights	324	(2)
Republican Party	326	(4)
Roosevelt, Franklin D.	330	(3)
Roosevelt, Theodore	333	(2)
Sally Hemings Affair	335	(1)
Scandals and Corruption	336	(3)
Secession	339	(2)
Sectionalism	341	(4)
Sedition Act of 1798	345	(1)
Seminole War	346	(1)
Senate Leadership: Early Period	347	(1)
Senate Leadership: Modern	348	(1)
Seneca Falls Convention	348	(2)
Sex Discrimination in Employment: Title VII	350	(1)
Sex Discrimination in Higher Education: Title IX	350	(1)
Shaw v. Reno	351	(1)
Shays's Rebellion	352	(2)
Slavery	354	(4)
Social Security	358	(1)
Socialist Party	359	(2)
Soft Money and Twentieth-Century Politics	361	(1)
Spanish-American War	361	(2)
Square Deal	363	(1)
State Apportionment	364	(1)
State Government	364	(4)
Statehood	368	(1)
States' Rights/Sovereignty	369	(3)
Suffrage	372	(4)
Super Majority	376	(1)
Supreme Court	377	(4)
Taft, William Howard	381	(1)
Talt Radio	382	(1)
Tariff History	383	(3)
Taxation and Twentieth-Century Politics	386	(3)
Taylor, Zachary	389	(1)
Teapot Dome and Other Harding Administration Scandals	390	(1)
Television and American Politics	391	(3)
Tennessee Valley Authority	394	(1)
Term Limits	395	(2)
Territorial Expansion	397	(3)
Territorial Government and New State Formation	400	(2)
Think Tanks and the Academic Policy Community	402	(2)
Third Parties	404	(1)
Three-Fifths Clause	405	(1)
Treaties: Commercial	406	(3)
Treaties: Peace, Armament, and Defense	409	(6)
Treaty Making	415	(2)
Truman, Harry S.	417	(4)
Twelfth Amendment	421	(1)
Tyler, John	422	(1)
Van Buren, Martin	423	(1)
Veto Power	424	(1)
Vice Presidency	425	(1)
Vietnam War	426	(5)
War of 1812	431	(1)
War Powers	432	(2)
Washington, George	434	(3)
Watergate	437	(2)
Watershed Elections	439	(1)
Welfare State	440	(1)
Whig Party	441	(1)
Whiskey Rebellion	442	(1)
Wilson, Woodrow	443	(2)
Woman's Suffrage Movement	445	(2)
World War I	447	(2)
World War II: Domestic Politics	449	(4)
World War II: Foreign and Military Policy	453	(4)
Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations	457	(8)
Index	465