Index

A

Adams, Charles Francis, 51
Adams, Henry, 71
Adams, John, 2, 8, 19, 25–27, 36
Adams, John Quincy, 36–39, 71
Adams, Samuel, 15
Addams, Jane, 77
Agnew, Spiro, 118
Agricultural Adjustment Act, 101
Alien Act, 26
Amendments (Constitutional), 17, 68, 91
Thirteenth, 68
Fourteenth, 68
Fifteenth, 68
Eighteenth, 91
Nineteenth, 91
American Antislavery Society, 47
American Party, 54, 56
American Revolution, 8–11, 14, 23, 25
Americans with Disabilities Act, 125
Anthony, Susan B., 77
Anti-Federalists, 14–17
Anti-Catholic (anti-Catholicism), 33, 53–54
anti-communism, 109
anti-elitism, 33
anti-foreign, 54, 56
Anti-Imperialist League, 84
Anti-Masonic Party, 33, 35
anti-party, 35
anti-prohibitionist, 55
Arthur, Chester, 79
Articles of Confederation, 8, 10–12, 14

B

Bayard, James, 27
Bell, John, 59
Benton, Thomas Hart, 56
Bernstein, Carl, 118
Biddle, Nicholas, 41
Bill of Rights, 15–17, 103
bi-metallic standard, 81
bin Laden, Osama, 130
Birney, James C., 49
Black Codes, 68
black nationalism, 115
Blaine, James G., 79–80
Booth, John Wilkes, 67, 72
Bork, Robert, 124
Boston Harbor, 131
Breckinridge, John, 59
Brooks, Preston S., 55
Brown, H. Rap, 115
Brown, Joe E., 71
Brown, John, 55, 58
Brown v. Board of Education, 110
Bryan, William Jennings, 81–84, 86–87
Buchanan, James, 56
Buchanan, Patrick, 126
Burns, Lucy, 91
Burr, Aaron, 25, 27–28
Bush, George H.W., 122, 125–26
Bush, George W., 129–33
Butler, Andrew P., 55
Byrd, Harry, 112

C

Calhoun, John C., 30, 37–38, 41, 48–49, 52
Cameron, Simon, 62
Carmichael, Stokely, 115
Carter, Jimmy, 120–22
Cass, Lewis, 50
Catholicism, 52, 56, 79, 112
Charleston Harbor, 60
Chase, Salmon P., 65
Christian Right, 123
Churchill, Winston, 106
Civil Rights Act, 110, 113–14
Civil War, 2, 46–59, 60, 62, 66, 68, 73–75, 79–80, 88
Clay, Henry, 30, 35–37, 40–41, 48, 51–52
Clean Air Act, 117
Cleveland, Grover, 75, 79–81
Clinton, Bill, 123, 126–29
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 127, 130
Cold War, 5, 105–106
Common Sense, 10
Communism, 99
Communist Party, 99, 106
Compromise of 1850, 52
Confederacy, 60, 65
Confiscation Act, 64
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 100
Congress for Industrial Workers, 101
Constitution, U.S., 1, 7, 9, 13–19, 27, 34, 37, 46, 61, 67, 73, 91, 130
Constitutional Union Party, 59
Contras, 124
Coolidge, Calvin, 92–95
Coughlin, Charles, 98, 100
Cox, James, 93
Crawford, William, 36–37
Crédit Mobilier, 72
“Crime against Kansas,” 55
Crockett, David, 43
“Cross of Gold” speech, 82
cultural war(s), 77, 126

D

Daley, Richard, 117
Daughtery, Harry, 93
Davis, Jefferson, 60–61
Davis, John W., 94
Debs, Eugene, 81, 87–88
Democratic Party, 41, 43–44, 49, 52, 56, 60, 64–66, 81, 90, 92, 101, 116–17
Democratic–Republican Party, 2, 18, 30
Department of Agriculture, 97
depression (economic), 11, 43–44, 72, 74, 81, 83–84, 90, 93, 95, 97–98, 104, 108, 131
Great Depression, 90, 97–98, 108, 131
Dewey, Thomas, 103–4, 107–9
Dole, Robert, 128
“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” 127
Douglas, Stephen A., 52–55, 57, 59, 83
Douglass, Frederick, 47–48
Dred Scott decision, 57
Duane, William, 25
Dukakis, Michael, 125

E

Eaton, John, 40
Eaton, Peggy O’Neale, 40
Eightieth Congress, 107
Eisenhower, Dwight D, 97, 109–12
elitism, 3, 10, 38
Enlightenment, 7
Espionage Act, 89
Evangelical(s), 47–48, 77, 121, 123

F

factions, 8, 18–19, 21, 24–25, 30, 56, 71, 133
Fair Deal, 109
Fair Labor Standards Act, 101
Fall, Albert, 94
Falwell, Jerry, 123
Farmers’ Alliance Movement, 81
Federal agencies
Environmental Protection Agency, 117
Food and Drug Administration, 86
Freedman’s Bureau, 69
Indian Bureau, 93
National Recovery Administration, 97
Veterans Bureau, 93
Women’s Bureau, 93
Works Progress Administration, 99, 100
Federal Home Loan Bank Act, 96
Federal Reserve Act, 88
Federal Reserve Bank, 122
Federalism, 91
Federalist Papers, 15
Federalist Party, 2, 18–19, 22, 35
Federalists, 14–16, 18–31, 51, 62, 65
Ferraro, Geraldine, 124
Fillmore, Millard, 51–52, 56
Finney, Charles Grandison, 34
First Gulf War, 125
Five Civilized Tribes, 40
Food and Drug Administration, 86
Ford, Gerald R., 118, 120–21
foreign policy, 11, 18, 22, 30, 84, 105, 108, 117, 121, 124
Foreign Relations Committee, 91
Franklin, Benjamin, 8
Free Soil Party, 35, 50–51
Freedman’s Bureau, 69
Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 40, 48
Frémont, John C., 56, 64–65
Friedan, Betty, 115
Fugitive Slave Act, 52

G

Garfield, James A., 79
Garrison, William Lloyd, 47–48
gays, 127
Genêt, Edmond Charles, 22–23
Gingrich, Newt, 127–28
Giuliani, Rudy, 127
Glass-Steagall Act, 96
“gold bug,” 81
Goldwater, Barry, 114
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 124
Gore, Albert Jr., 126, 129
Grant, Ulysses S., 70–72
Great Society, 114–16
Greeley, Horace, 65, 71
Greenback Party, 2, 76
Grundy, Felix, 30
Guiteau, Charles, 79

H

Hamilton, Alexander, 2, 4, 8–9, 11–12, 15–16, 18–23, 26–27
Hamlin, Hannibal, 65
Hanna, Mark, 82–83
Harding, Warren G., 92–95, 128
Harrison, Benjamin, 80–81
Harrison, William Henry, 35, 43–45, 80
Hartford Convention, 31
Hay, John, 84
Hayes, Rutherford B., 72, 75
Henry, Patrick, 15
Hiss, Alger, 109
Hitler, Adolf, 102
Homestead Act, 61
Hoover, Herbert, 95–96
Hoover, J. Edgar, 92–93
Horton, Willie, 125
Humphrey, Hubert, 108, 111–12, 116–17
Hussein, Saddam, 130

I

Indian Bureau, 93
Indian Removal Act, 40
industrialization, 4
Interstate Commerce Commission Act, 80
Iranian crisis, 122

J

Jackson, Andrew, 30–31, 36–44, 49, 51, 88
Jacobins, 19
Jay, John, 15, 19, 23–24
Jay Treaty, 24
Jefferson, Thomas, 2, 4, 8, 10, 18–23, 25–30, 36
“Jew Deal,” 99
Johnson, Andrew, 60, 65, 67–70
Johnson, Hiram, 85
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 112–14, 116, 126, 131
Johnson, Richard M., 43
Jones, Bob Jr., 95
Jones, Samuel, 85
Justice Department, 93, 110

K

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 53–54, 56
Kendall, Amos, 39
Kennedy, Anthony, 124
Kennedy, Edward, 122, 129
Kennedy, John F., 111–13
Kennedy, Robert, 116
Kerry, John, 130
Keynes, John Maynard, 101
King, Martin Luther Jr., 112–13, 116
Know-Nothing Party, 2, 35, 54, 56, 59
Korean War, 109

L

Labor Department, 93
LaFollette, Robert, 85–86, 94
Landon, Alf, 100
League of Nations, 91–93
Lee, Arthur, 16
Lee, Robert E., 65
Lemke, William, 100
Lewis, John L., 101
Liberal Republican Party, 71
Libertarian Party, 2
Liberty League, 99
Lincoln, Abraham, 46, 50, 57–67, 71
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 91
Long, Huey, 99–100
Louis XVI (king of France), 22
Louisiana Purchase, 28, 36
Lovejoy, Elijah, 48
Low, Seth, 85

M

MacArthur, Douglas, 96
Madison, James, 2, 4, 8, 12–13, 15, 17– 23, 26–27, 29–30, 36
Malcolm X, 115
Marbury v. Madison (1803), 28
Marshall, John, 28
Martial Act, 72
Martin, Luther, 8
Mason(s), 33–35
Mason, George, 8
Maysville Road Bill, 40
McCain, John, 130–31
McCarthy, Eugene, 116
McCarthy, Joseph, 107, 110–11
McCarthyism, 107
McClellan, George B., 65–66
McGovern, George, 117–18
McKinley, William, 82–84, 93
McLean, John, 38
Meat Inspection Act, 86
Mellon, Andrew, 93
Mexican-American War, 46, 51
Missouri Compromise, 36, 48, 53
Mitchell, John, 118
Mondale, Walter, 123–24
Monroe, James, 27, 29–30, 35–36
Montesquieu, 7
Morgan, J.P., 82
Morgan, William, 33
Mormon(s), 34, 51, 121
Morrill Act, 61
Morris, Gouverneur, 8, 14
mugwump(s), 76, 79

N

Nader, Ralph, 129
Nast, Thomas, 71
national bank(s), 5, 18, 20–21, 35, 42, 44–45
first national bank, 21
second national bank, 42
National Industrial Recovery Act, 101
National Liberty Party, 35, 49
National Origins Act, 94
National Recovery Administration, 97
National Union Party, 65, 100
National Woman’s Party, 91
nativist, nativism, 53–54
New Deal, 91, 97–103, 105–6, 109–10, 119
New Nationalism, 87
New Right, 121
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 26
Nixon, Richard, 106, 109–10, 112–13, 116–18, 120–21, 125
Noriega, Manuel, 125
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 127, 129
North, Oliver, 124
Northrup, Solomon, 47
Notes on the State of Virginia, 20
Nullification Crisis, 43

O

Obama, Barack, 130–33
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 124
Omnibus Bill, 51

P

Paine, Thomas, 10
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 92
Panama Canal, 121
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 131–132
Paul, Alice, 91
People’s Party, 2, 81
Perot, Ross, 126, 128
Philadelphia Convention, 8–9, 12–13, 15
Pinckney, Charles C., 29
Pinckney’s Treaty, 24
Poindexter, John, 124
political parties
American Party, 54, 56
Anti-Masonic Party, 33, 35
Communist Party, 99, 106
Constitutional Union Party, 59
Democratic Party, 41, 43–44, 49, 52, 56, 60, 64–66, 81, 90, 92, 101, 116–17
Federalist Party, 2, 18–19, 22, 35
Democratic-Republican Party, 2, 18, 30
Free Soil Party, 35, 50–51
Greenback Party, 76
Know-Nothing Party, 2, 35, 54, 56, 59
Liberal Republican Party, 71
Libertarian Party, 2
National Liberty Party, 35, 49
National Union Party, 65, 100
National Woman’s Party, 91
People’s Party, 2, 81
Progressive Party, 2, 87, 94, 108
Prohibition Party, 80
Radical Democracy Party, 65
Reform Party, 2, 126
Republican Party, 2, 46, 54–71, 76, 86, 95, 119
Socialist Party, 2, 87
States’ Rights Party, 108
Tea Party, 131–32
Whig Party, 2, 33, 35, 42–46, 48–53, 55, 57, 59, 62, 119
Polk, James K., 49–50
populism (ist), 43, 81–84
popular democracy, 1, 8–10, 13–15
popular sovereignty, 8, 14, 35, 53, 55, 57
Pierce, Franklin, 52–53, 56
primary system, 85, 116, 120–21
Progressive Party, 2, 87, 94, 108
Progressivism, 75, 91
prohibition, 77, 85, 91, 97
Prohibition Party, 80
Pure Food and Drug Act, 86

R

Radical Democracy Party, 65
Radical Republican, 60, 65, 67–70
Randolph, Edmund, 8
Randolph, John, 29
Raskob, John J., 99
Reagan, Ronald, 115, 121–25
“Reagan Revolution,” 122
Reconstruction, 60, 65–73, 110
anti, 70
finance, 96
radical, 70–71
Reconstruction Act, 69
reform, reformers, 4, 69, 71–72, 75–81, 84–89, 90, 93, 95–96, 103, 117
antiparty, 35
antislavery, 53
civil service, 79
health care, 131
moral, 47
prison, 4
Reform Party, 126
Social Security, 122
tax, 124
temperance, 53
welfare, 117, 126–29
women, 63, 78
Reform Party, 2, 126
Reorganization Act, 101
Report on Manufacturers (1791), 20
republican government, 5, 7–9, 12,
Republican Party, 2, 46, 54–71, 76, 86, 95, 119
“Republican Revolution,” 128
“Revolution of 1800”, 27
Revolutionary War, 131
Robertson, Pat, 123
Rockefeller, Nelson, 114
Roe v. Wade, 123
Romney, Mitt, 132–33
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 111
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 90, 93, 96–104, 106
Roosevelt, Theodore, 75, 84–88
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 7
rule of law, 4, 13

S

scandal(s), 72, 79
Continental, 79
Clinton administration, 127–29
Harding administration, 93–94
Iran Contra, 124
Truman administration, 107–9
Watergate, 118
Scott, Winfield, 52–53
Sedition Act, 25–26, 89
Seward, William H., 44, 59, 66–67
Seymour, Horatio, 65, 70–71
Shays, Daniel, 11
Shays Rebellion, 11
Sherman Antitrust Act, 80–81
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 81
Sherman, William T., 66
Sinclair, Upton, 86, 98
slavery, 4–5, 11, 14, 26, 34–36, 46–59, 64, 67–69, 73
Smith, Alfred, 94–95, 99
Social Security Act, 90
socialism (ist), 2, 75, 81, 86, 87–88, 91, 98–99
Socialist Party, 2, 87
Spanish American War, 86,
Stanton, Edwin, 70
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 77
Stalin, Joseph, 106
State Department, 109
Steinem, Gloria, 115
Stevenson, Adlai, 109–10
States’ Rights Party, 108
Stone, Lucy, 77
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), 117
Suffrage, 3, 18, 32–34, 69–70, 74, 77–78, 87, 91
Sumner, Charles, 55, 66–67

T

Taft-Hartley Act, 107
Taft, Robert, 109
Taft, William Howard, 75, 86–88
Taney, Roger, 43, 57
Tappan, Arthur, 47
Tappan, Louis, 47
tariffs, 4, 11, 19–20, 35, 38–39, 41, 43, 49, 59, 61, 76, 80, 82, 86, 88, 93
“Tariff of Abominations,” 38–39
Tax Reform Act, 124
Taylor, Zachary, 49, 51–52
Tea Party, 131–32
Tecumseh, 28, 43–44
terrorism, 93, 130
9/11, 130
Ku Klux Klan, 93
third parties, 2, 35, 59, 75, 81, 88, 100, 117, 126
Thomas, Clarence, 125
Thompson, Tommy, 127
Thurmond, Strom, 108
Tilden, Samuel, 72
Townsend, Francis, 99–100
Treaty of Greenville, 24
Truman, Harry S, 103–4, 107–9
Truth, Sojourner, 48
Tubman, Harriet, 48
Turner’s Rebellion, 47
two-party system, 2, 25, 33, 61, 66, 73
Tweed, William Marcy, 79
Tyler, John, 44–45, 48–49

U

Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 107
Union Leagues, 68
U’Ren, William, 85
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 110
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 63

V

Van Buren, Martin, 35, 38–41, 43–45, 49–51, 82
Vesey, Denmark, 47
Veterans Bureau, 93
Vietnam War, 105, 116–17
Virginia dynasty, 27
Volstead Act, 91
Voting Rights Act, 114

W

Wade, Benjamin, 65, 70
Wade-Davis Bill, 67
Wallace, George, 117
Wallace, Henry, 102–3, 106, 108
War Hawk(s), 30, 37
War of 1812, 2, 18, 51
war on poverty, 114
Warren, Earl, 110
Washington, D.C., 3, 30, 37, 48, 50, 54, 63, 66, 81, 92, 96, 103, 113, 118, 132
Washington, George, 2, 7, 9, 15–24, 26
Weaver, James Baird, 82
Webster, Daniel, 43, 52
Weed, Thurlow, 44
Weld, Theodore, 47
Whig Party, 2, 33, 35, 42–46, 48–53, 55, 57, 59, 62, 119
Whiskey Rebellion, 21–23
White, Hugh Lawson, 43
Willard, Frances, 77
Willkie, Wendell, 102, 109
Wilmot, David, 50
Wilson, James, 8
Wilson, Woodrow, 75, 87–89, 91–93, 95, 113
“Wilson’s League,” 93. See also League of Nations
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 63, 77
Woodard, Bob, 118
Works Progress Administration, 99–100
World War One, 84, 91, 95–96
World War Two, 3, 5, 31, 38, 102, 105–6, 109, 112