INDEX

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abolitionist movement

Abraham (biblical)

absolutism

Acheson, Dean

Act of Supremacy

Adams, Abigail

Adams, Henry

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Adams, Samuel

Addams, Jane

Addison, Joseph

advertising

Affordable Care Act

Afghanistan

African Americans. see also slavery; federal employment; inequality, colonial era; Progressivism and; voting; voting rights; in World War I; in World War II

Agee, James

Age of Discovery

Age of the Common Man

agrarian protest movement

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

Aguinaldo, Emilio

Aid for Families with Dependent Children

Alaska

Albany Congress

Alcott, Bronson

Alice Adams (Tarkington)

Alien and Sedition Acts

Allen, Frederick

Alliance for Progress

al-Qaeda

America. see also United States exploration of; ideology of; settlement, origins of

American Communist Party

American Creed

American Crisis, The (Paine)

American Dilemma, An (Myrdal)

American Expeditionary Force (AEF)

American Federation of Labor

American Liberty League

American Philosophical Society

American Protective League

American Railway Union

American Revolution

conflicts; defeats; economic effects; end of the; leadership; philosophy of the; precedents; purpose; supporters; triumphs; troop support

“American Scholar, The” (Emerson)

American System

Americas, exploration of the

“America the Beautiful,”

Anabaptists

Anaconda Plan

“And All We Call American” (Frost)

Anderson, Robert

Anglicanism

Anglo-Spanish War

Anti-Federalists

Antiquities Act

antitrust acts

Aquinas, Thomas

Architects’ Small House Service Bureau

aristocratic class

Aristotle

arms-limitation treaties

arms race

Armstrong, Louis

Articles of Confederation

Asbury, Francis

associationalism

Aswan Dam

atomic bomb

Austin, Stephen F.

automobile industry

aviation

baby boom

Bacon, Francis

Bacon’s Rebellion

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de

Banking Act

banking industry

condemnation of; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Federal Reserve Act; Federal Reserve Board; Great Depression; homeownership growth

Bank of the United States

Baruch, Bernard

Batista, Fulgencio

Battle of Antietam

Battle of Britain

Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Midway

Battle of Mobile Bay

Battle of the Chesapeake

Battle of the San Jacinto River

Battle of the Somme

Battle of the Wilderness

Bay of Pigs

Beard, Charles A.

Beaumont, Gustave de

Becker, Carl

Beilin, Israel

Bell, Alexander Graham

Bellamy, Edward

Ben-Gurion, David

Berlin, Irving

Berlin Wall

Bessemer process

Better Houses in America movement

Beveridge, Albert

Bicentennial celebration

Big Three summit

Bill of Rights

Billy Budd (Melville)

Black, Conrad

black power movement

Black Thursday

Blithedale Romance (Hawthorne)

Blitzkrieg tactic

Boleyn, Anne

Bolshevik Revolution

Bonus Expeditionary Force

Boorstin, Daniel

Booth, John Wilkes

Boston Tea Party

Boxer Rebellion

Braddock, Edward

Bradford, William

Bradley, Omar

Brandenburg Gate

Braynard, Frank

Breckenridge, John

Britain

Bill of Rights; civil war; colonization; constitutional governance; divine right of kings; emergence of; foreign policy; government; monarchy; Protestant Reformation; self-rule tradition; World War II

British–French relations

Brook Farm

Brooks, Preston

Brown, Charles Brockden

Brown, John

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchanan, James

Bunyan, John

Burgoyne, John “Gentleman Johnny,”

Burke, Edmund

Burned-Over District

Burns, James MacGregor

Burnside, Ambrose

Burr, Aaron

Bush, George Herbert Walker

Bush, George W.

Butler, Andrew

Butterfield, Herbert

Calhoun, John C.

California

Calvin, John

Calvinism

Cambodia

Camp David Accords

Capitulations of Santa Fe

Capone, “Scarface” Al

Caribbean Islands

Carlyle, Thomas

Carnegie, Andrew

Caro, Robert

Carolina

carpetbaggers

Carter, Jimmy

Carter, Rosalynn

Cartwright, Peter

Cass, Lewis

Castro, Fidel

Catherine of Aragon

Catholic Church

Catholic clergy

Catholics

discrimination against; freedom of worship; immigrants; Mexican; missionaries; political affiliation; Southern; in Vietnam; voters

Cato, a Tragedy (Addison)

Catton, Bruce

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Challenge to Liberty, The (Hoover)

Chamberlain, Joshua L.

Chamberlain, Mellen

Chamber of Commerce

Chaplin, Charlie

Charles I

Charles II

Charles V

Chase, Samuel

Cherokee tribe

Chesterton, G.K.

Chiang Kai-shek

child labor

Child Nutrition Act

children

Aid for Families with Dependent Children; Child Nutrition Act; labor protections

China

Choctaw tribe

Churchill, Winston

Church of England

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Cicero

citizenship

city-manager system of governance

city-states

Civic Biology, A (Hunter)

civic virtue

Civilian Conservation Corps

civilizations, early

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Civil Rights Act of 1964

civil rights movement

Civil War

advantages, North vs. South; casualties; causes underlying; economic effects, North vs. South; end of the; major campaigns; prelude to the; presidential election; purpose; reunification post-, facing; slavery and the; strategy for victory

Civil War, steps to the

Compromise of 1850; Dred Scott v. Sandford; Fort Sumter; Harpers Ferry raid; Kansas–Nebraska Act; Lincoln’s election; Mexican War of 1846; Missouri Compromise; secession

Civil Works Administration

Clark, George Rogers

Clark, Mark

Clark, William

“Clash of Civilizations?, The” (Huntington)

Clay, Henry

Clean Air Act

Clemenceau, Georges

Cleveland, Grover

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, De Witt

Clinton, Hillary

Coercive Acts

Coffin, Catherine

Coffin, Levi

Cohan, George M.

Cohens v. Virginia

Cold War

beginnings; Chinese Communist Party and; counterculture era; Eisenhower on; end of the; executive power in the; JFK administration; Korean War era; NSC strategy; nuclear weapons; presidential power; Reagan administration; reasons underlying; space race; world order post-

colonialism

colonies, North American

citizenship

English influence; independence, move toward; national form of consciousness; oversight of the; religion and settlement of; self-rule; tax protests

Columbian Exchange

Columbus, Christopher

commerce

Committee on Public Information

Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

common law

Common Sense (Paine)

communications revolution

Communism. see also Soviet Union

containment policy; failure of; fear of; growth of in United States; in Korea; rise of, in Russia

communitarianism

Compromise of 1850

Compromise of 1877

concentration camps

Concord circle

“Concord Hymn” (Emerson)

Confederate States of America

Congregational Churches

Congress, formation of the

Congressional Government (Wilson)

Connecticut

conquistadors

conservation

conservative movement

conservative Protestantism

Constitutional Convention (Philadelphia Convention)

Constitutional Union Party

Constitution Day

Constitution of the United States. see also specific amendments

achievements; Article VII; checks and balances; Congressional representation; electoral votes; framers; framing of the; imperilment of; interpreting the; Lincoln and the; martial powers under the; presidential transitions; Progressive position on; purpose; ratification; shortcomings; on slavery; states rights; sufficiency of the; supremacy clause; TR’s interpretation of; uniqueness

construction industry

consumer economy

consumerism

consumer protections

Continental Army

Continental Congress

Contract with America

Coolidge, Calvin

Coolidge, Grace Goodhue

Cooper, James Fenimore

Copperhead Democrats

Coral Sea naval battle

Cornwallis, Charles

Corruption in government

FDR administration; Harding administration; Nixon administration; Teapot Dome scandal; World War II

Cortés, Hernando

Corwin Amendment

cotton economy

Coughlin, Charles

counterculture

Crawford, William

credit, consumer

Creel, George

Creel Committee

Crockett, Davy

Cromwell, Oliver

Crusades

Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

Currency Act

Daniels, Jonathan

Darrow, Clarence

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Darwin, Charles

Darwinism

Daugherty, Harry M.

Davis, Jefferson

Davis, John W.

Dawes Severalty Act

Daylight Saving Time

D-Day invasion

Dean, John

Debs, Eugene V.

Declaration of American Rights

Declaration of Independence

actions underlying; adoption of; aspirations of; endurance of; fulfilling the spirit of; “Gettysburg Address” and the; goal of; influence of; natural-rights philosophy; opposition to; popular sovereignty doctrine vs.; Progressive position on; questions raised

Declaration of Neutrality

Declaratory Act

deficit spending. see national debt

Deism

Democracy in America (Tocqueville)

Democratic Party

African American vote; beginnings; Civil War position; Compromise of 1877; FDR election and administration; Kansas–Nebraska Act effect; Nixon administration; political machine; weakening of the; Wilson administration

Dempsey, Jack

Department of Commerce and Labor

Department of Homeland Security

Dewey, George

Dewey, John

Dewey, Thomas E.

Dias, Bartolomeu

Dickinson, John

Diem, Ngo Dinh

discrimination

in education; immigrant; racial; disease; disinterestedness ethic

diversity

“Divine and Supernatural Light, A”

(Edwards)

divine right of kings

Dix, Dorothea

Dole, Bob

Dominican Republic

Donald, David

Dos Passos, John

Douglas, Stephen A.

Douglass, Frederick

draft, military

draft dodgers

Drake, Francis

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Dukakis, Michael

Dull, Paul

Dulles, Allen

Dulles, John Foster

Dunkirk

Dunning, William A.

Dwight, Timothy

East Germany

East India Company

economic mobility

Economic Recovery Tax Act

economics, trickle down

economy. see also Great Depression; national debt; New Deal American System for fostering growth; automobile; Bush administration; Carter administration; Economic Recovery Tax Act; financial panic of 1873; Ford administration; Great Recession of; Harding administration; Hoover administration; Jefferson administration; JFK administration; Madison administration; mail-order retail businesses; Nixon administration; Obama administration; post–Civil War; post-Revolution; Reagan administration; recession of 1920–21; recession of 1937; recession of 1982; stagflation; Washington administration; World War I; World War I, era, post-; World War II; World War II, era, post-

Ederle, Gertrude

education

Edwards, Jonathan

Egypt

Eighteenth Amendment

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight

Electoral College

electricity

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Elizabeth I

Ellington, Duke

Ellsworth, Oliver

el-Sadat, Anwar

Elysian Fields

“Emancipation Proclamation” (Lincoln)

Embargo Act

Emergency Relief Act

Emerson, Ellen

Emerson, John

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Endangered Species Act

Enforcement Acts

England. see Britain

Enlightenment

environmentalism

Epictetus

Era of Good Feelings

Erie Canal

Eriksson, Leif

Erik the Red

espionage

Espionage Act

Essex Junto

Ethic of responsibility in politics

eugenics

Euromissile crisis

Europe

absolutism in; American history relation; Crusades, impact on; religious unity, undoing of; trade routes opening, effect on; evangelical Protestantism

Evans, Charles

Evans, Oliver

Everett, Edward

evolution

exceptionalism

Executive Reorganization Act

expansionism

British Empire; Communist Party; Germany; pre–World War II; through Manifest Destiny; United States

exploration

early; Lewis and Clark; oceangoing; Portugal and; technology and

factory system

Fairbanks, Douglas

Fall, Albert

“Farewell Address” (Eisenhower)

“Farewell Address” (Washington)

Farragut, David

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Election Campaign Act

federal farmland banks

Federal Highways Act

federalism

Federalist–Anti-Federalist debate

Federalist, The (Publius); Federalist 1 (Hamilton); Federalist 10 (Madison); Federalist 51 (Madison)

Federalist Party

Adams administration; Democratic Republicans vs.; end of the; Jefferson administration; judiciary; Republican Party vs.; War of 1812 and the

Federal Reserve Act

Federal Reserve Board

Federal Theater Project

Federal Trade Commission

Felt, Mark

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)

feminist movement

Ferdinand, Archduke Franz

Ferdinand, King of Spain

Fifteenth Amendment

Fifth Amendment

Fillmore, Millard

financial panic of 1873

Finney, Charles Grandison

First Amendment

First Battle of Bull Run

“First Inaugural Address” (Jefferson)

“First Inaugural Address” (Lincoln)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzhugh, George

Fletcher v. Peck

Flexner, James Thomas

Food Administration

food stamps. see Aid for Families with Dependent Children

Forbes, Charles R.

Ford, Gerald R.

Ford, Henry

foreign policy

Adams administration; China; Cuba; France; French Indochina; Great Britain; Iran; isolationism; Israel; Johnson administration; Latin America; Madison administration; Middle East; Monroe administration; neutrality doctrine; Nixon administration; Philippines; Roosevelt administration; Southeast Asia; Soviet Union; Taiwan; Truman administration; Washington administration; Wilson administration

Forest Service, U.S.

Fort Leonard Wood

Fort McHenry

Fort Sumter

Fort Ticonderoga

Fourier, Charles

Fourteen Points

Fourteenth Amendment

Fourth Great Awakening

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth

France

colonization by; Communist expansionism; emergence of; foreign policy; monarchy; Revolution, support for the; World War II

Franco, Francisco

Franklin, Benjamin

Frederick the Great

Freedmen’s Bureau

freedom of religion

freedom of speech

Free-Soil Party

free trade principle

Frémont, John C.

French and Indian War

French Indochina

French Revolution

Friedan, Betty

frontier

Frost, Robert

Fuchs, Klaus

Fuel Administration

Fugitive Slave Act

Fugitive Slave Clause

Fugitive Slave Law

Fuller, Margaret

Fulton, Robert

fundamentalism

Gage, Thomas

Gandhi, Mohandas

Garbo, Greta

Garrison, William Lloyd

Genovese, Eugene

George, Henry

George II

George III

German Democratic Republic

Germany

Blitzkrieg tactic; expansion; post–World War II; reunification; World War I; World War II

Gershwin, George

“Gettysburg Address” (Lincoln)

Gibbons v. Ogden

GI Bill of Rights

Gingrich, Newt

Gladden, Washington

Glorious Revolution

“God Bless America” (Berlin)

“God Bless the USA” (Greenwood)

“Go Down Moses,”

gold rush

gold standard

Goldwater, Barry

Gompers, Samuel

Gone with the Wind (film)

Good Neighbor Policy

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gore, Albert

governance

city-manager system of; science of

government, U.S. see also economy; national debt; three branches of; business partnerships; cabinet; regulatory agencies; separation of powers

Graham, Billy

Grand Review of the Union armies

Grange, Red

Grant, Ulysses S.

Grasse, Comte de

Great American Songbook

Great Awakening

Great Britain. see Britain

Great Compromise

Great Contraction

Great Depression

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)

Great Railroad Strike

Great Recession of 2007–8

Great Society

Greece

Greenland

Greenstein, Fred

Greenwood, Lee

Greer

Grenville, George

Guadalcanal Diary (Tregaskis)

Guam

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Hamby, Alonzo

Hamilton, Alexander

Hammond, James Henry

Handlin, Oscar

Hanna, Mark

Harding, Warren G.

Harpers Ferry raid

Hartford Convention

Hawaii annexation

Hawkins, John

Hawley–Smoot Tariff

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hay, John

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Haymarket riot

Hayne, Robert Y.

Hearst, William Randolph

Henricus Martellus map

Henry, Patrick

Henry the Navigator

Henry VII

Henry VIII

Hepburn Act

Hetch Hetchy Valley

Higher Education Act

Highway Beautification Act

highway construction

Hiss, Alger

Hitler, Adolf

Hoar, George Frisbie

Hobart, Garret

Ho Chi Minh

Hofstadter, Richard

Holmes, John

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.

Holocaust

Home Modernizing Bureau

homeownership

Homestead Act

Homestead steel strike

Hooker, Joseph

Hoover, Herbert

House Committee on Un-American Activities

“House Divided” (Lincoln)

Housing Department

Houston, Sam

Howe, Samuel Gridley

Howe, William

Howells, William Dean

Hughes, Langston

Hull, Cordell

human rights policy

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Hunter, George William

Huntington, Samuel

Hussein, Saddam

hypermercantilism

“I Have a Dream” (King)

immigrant labor

immigrants

immigration

Immigration Act

immigration restrictions

impeachment

Clinton, Bill; Johnson, Andrew; Nixon, Richard M.

imperialism

Imperial Presidency, The (Schlesinger)

income tax

Indian policy

Indian Removal Act

Indies

individualism

Individualism, Old and New (Dewey)

industrialization

Infante Henrique

Influence of Sea Power upon History, The (Mahan)

infrastructure

automobile industry effect; highway construction; improvements; railroad industry

innovation

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin)

Internal Revenue Service

internment camps

Interstate Commerce Act

Interstate Commerce Commission

interventionism

Intolerable Acts

Iran

Iran hostage situation

Iraq

Irving, Washington

Isabella, Queen of Spain

Isles of the Blessed

isolationism

Israel

Italy

Ivanhoe (Scott)

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,”

James, William

James I

James II

Japan

Japanese Americans

Jay, John

Jay Treaty

jazz

Jazz Singer, The, (film)

Jefferson, Thomas

Jesus

Johannsen, Robert W.

John, King of England

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Hiram

Johnson, Hugh

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Johnson, Samuel

Johnston, Joseph E.

Jones, Bobby

Jones, Samuel “Golden Rule,”

Jones Act

Jordan, David Starr

Joseph, chief of the Nez Perce

journalism

corruption in; gargoyle; history and; investigative; yellow

judicial branch

Judiciary Act

Jungle, The (Sinclair)

justification by faith doctrine

Kaiser, Henry J.

Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, The (film)

Kaiser Shipyard

kamikaze

Kansas–Nebraska Act

Keaton, Buster

Keegan, John

Kellogg–Briand Pact

Kennan, George E.

Kennedy, John E.

Kennedy, Joseph P.

Kennedy, Robert

Kennedy, Ted

Kern, Jerome

Key, Francis Scott

Keynes, John Maynard

Khmer Rouge

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Khrushchev, Nikita

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

King, Rufus

Kissinger, Henry

Knox, Henry

Kohl, Helmut

Korean War

Krock Arthur

Ku Klux Klan

Kuwait

Lafayette, Marquis de

La Follette, Robert

Landon, Alf

Larson, Edward

Latin American relations, interwar years

Lawrence, D. H.

Leadership (Burns)

League of Nations

Leatherstocking tales (Cooper)

Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

Lę Đúc Tho

Lee, Luther

Lee, Richard Henry

Lee, Robert E.

Lend-Lease Bill

L’Enfant, Pierre

Lenin, Vladimir

Leo X

Leo XIII

Levittowns

Lewis, Meriwether

Leyte Gulf

liberal Progressivism

Liberator, The (newspaper)

Liberty ships

Lincoln, Abraham

Lindbergh, Charles

Lippmann, Walter

literature

Livingston, Robert R.

Lloyd, Henry Demarest

Lloyd George, David

Locke, John

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Long, Huey P.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Looking Backward (Bellamy)

Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Territory

Ludlow Amendment

Lusitania

Luther, Martin; “Ninety-Five Theses” and; Lynn, Kenneth S.

MacArthur, Douglas

Madison, James

Magellan, Ferdinand

Maguires, Molly

Mahan, Alfred Thayer

Mayhew, Jonathan

Maine

Malcolm X

Manifest Destiny

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (Sloan)

Mann, Horace

manners, revolution in

Man O’War

Mao Zedong

Marbury, William

Marbury v. Madison

“March of the Flag, The” (Beveridge)

March on Washington

Marco Polo

Marshall, George

Marshall, John

Marshall Plan

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee

Marx, Karl

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary I

Mason, George

Massachusetts Bay colonies

Massachusetts Bay Company

Mayflower Compact

McCain, John

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Joseph

McClellan, George C.

McCord, John

McCulloch v. Maryland

McGovern, George

McKinley, William

McKitrick, Eric

McNamara, Robert S.

Meade, George G.

Meat Inspection Act

Medicaid

Medicare

Mellon, Andrew W.

Melville, Herman

Mencken, H. L.

mercantilism

merchant class

merchant-princes

Methodism

Mexican Americans

Mexican War of 1846

Mexico

Middle Ages

military, U.S.

defense spending; post–World War I; servicemen, post–World War II; Strategic Defense Initiative; World War I buildup; World War II

Millerites

Mills Brothers

Mind of the Master Class, The (Genovese & Fox-Genovese)

minimum wage laws

Missouri

Missouri Compromise

Missouri Territory

Moby-Dick (Melville)

“Modell of Christian Charity, A” (Winthrop)

modernism

modernization

Moley, Raymond

monarchy

Monroe, James

Monroe Doctrine

Montesquieu

Montgomery, Bernard

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Montgomery Ward

More, Thomas

“Moral Equivalent of War, The” (James)

morals

Protestant; revolution in

Morgan, J. Pierpont

Mormonism

Morrill Tariff

Morris, Gouverneur

Morris, Jan

Moses (biblical)

movies

muckrakers

Muir, John

Mumford, Lewis

Murphy, Audie

music, popular

Mussolini, Benito

Myrdal, Gunnar

Napoleon

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

national bank, U.S.

National Banking Act

national debt

Affordable Care Act and; Coolidge administration; decreasing the; Eisenhower administration; future of; growth; Jefferson administration; Mellon policies and; national security and; Obama administration; post–Civil War; Reagan administration; Wilson administration; World War I; World War II

National Energy Act

National Environmental Policy Act

national forests

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Nationalist Party

National Labor Relations Act

national monuments

national parks

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

National Road

National Security Council

National Union Party

National War Labor Board

nativism

Nat Turner Rebellion

natural resource conservation

Navigation Acts

neutrality acts

neutrality doctrine

New Atlantis, The (Bacon)

New Deal

Eisenhower administration and; Goldwater opposition to; Legacy of; overview of the; presidential power; Reagan position toward; Second; Truman administration and

New England colonies

New Freedom platform

New Frontier platform

New Harmony

New Mexico

New Nationalism

Newton, Isaac

New World

Nimitz, Chester

Nineteenth Amendment

“Ninety-Five Theses” (Luther)

Nixon, Richard M.

“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,”

Nonseparating Congregationalists

North, Lord

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Northern Securities Company

Northwest Ordinance

Northwest Territory

Noyes, John Humphrey

NSC-

nuclear weapons

arms limitations; arms race; Bay of Pigs; Cold War; Strategic Defense Initiative

Nullification Crisis

Nye, Gerald

Nye Committee

Obama, Barack

Occupational Health and Safety Act

Office of Price Administration

Office of War Mobilization

Oglethorpe, James

Ohrdruf camp

oil industry

Ojibwa

Okinawa

Olive Branch Petition

Olympic Games

Oneida Community

Only Yesterday (Allen)

Operation Desert Storm

optimism, age of

Ordinance of Nullification

Oregon Territory

organized labor

Orlando, Vittorio

O’Sullivan, John L.

Otis, James

“Our Native Writers” (Longfellow)

“Over There” (Cohan)

Owen, Robert

“Own Your Own Home” campaign

Pahlavi, Reza

Paine, Thomas

Palestine

Palmer, A. Mitchell

Palmer raids

Panama Canal

Pan-American Conference

Parade of Ships

Pascal, Blaise

Patch, A. M.

patents

Paterson, William

patriotism, shape of

Patton, George

Peace Corps

Pearl Harbor

Pendergast, T. J.

Penn, William

Pennsylvania Gazette (newspaper)

People’s Party

People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Pershing, John J.

Philip II

Philippines

Phillips, U. B.

Phillips, Wendell

Pickett, George

Pickford, Mary

Pierce, Franklin

Pilgrims

Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)

Pinchot, Gifford

pirates, Barbary

Pitt, William

Plains Indians

Plains of Abraham

Plan of Union (Albany Congress)

plantation society

Platt Amendment

Plymouth Plantation

Poe, Edgar Allan

political machine

political parties. see also specific parties

emergence of; partisanship; transfer of power; two-party system

Polk, James K.

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin)

popular sovereignty doctrine

populism

Populists

Pottawatomie Massacre

Powhatan Indians

predestination doctrine

presidency

ethics in the; executive power; impeachment; parliamentary style; power of the; scandal in the; term limits; two-term tradition; war-making power

presidential authority

presidential elections, contentious

Preston, Levi

Progress and Poverty (George)

Progressive Era

Progressive Party

1948 presidential election; beliefs shared; constituents; socioeconomic profile

Progressivism/Progressive movement alcohol, objections to; beginnings; ethic of disinteredness; Kennedy administration; minorities, position on; philosophies of governance; public support for; reforms agreed on; Theodore Roosevelt administration; underpinnings; war, position on; Wilson administration; workforce protection reforms

Prohibition

propaganda

property rights

proslavery apologists

Protestantism

colonial; conservative; Enlightenment rationalism and; evangelical; Mormonism and; reformist; southern

Protestant Reformation

Protestant revivalism

Puerto Rico

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pullman strike

Pure Food and Drug Act

Puritans

Quakers

Quartering Act

race riots

Radical Republicans

radio

Railroad Administration

railroad industry

Rape of Nanking

Rappites

Rauschenbusch, Walter

Reagan, Ronald

Reaganomics

recession of 1920–21

recession of 1937

recession of 1982

recession of 2007–8

Reconstruction

bitterness of; congressional control; end to; Grant administration; Johnson’s plan for; readmission requirements

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Red Scare

reformist Protestantism

refrigerators

religion. see also specific religions

colonial settlement and; in Mexico; Great Awakening; post-Revolution; revolutionary unsettlements; slave

Religious Right

Renan, Ernest

Reno, Milo

Republican Party (Democratic Republicans, 1792–1825) 1800 presidential election; dominance of the; Federalist Party vs.; War of 1812

Republican Party (1854 to present) 1952 presidential election; African American vote; Buchanan administration; Clinton administration; Compromise of 1877; creation of; Eisenhower election; elections of 1866; Harding administration; Latin American relations, interwar years; Lincoln and the; in the South; Truman administration

Reston, James

Revenue Act

Revere, Paul

revivalism

right to trial by jury

Riis, Jacob

Ripley, George

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson B.

Rockingham, Marquis of

“Rock My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham,”

Rodgers, Daniel T.

Rogers, Will

romanticism

Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis

Romney, Mitt

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Elihu

Rosenberg, Ethel

Rosenberg, Julius

Ross, Edmund

Rush, Benjamin

Rusk, Dean

Russian Revolution

Russo-Japanese War

Ruth, Babe

Samoa

San Salvador

Santa Anna, Antonio López de

Santa Maria

scalawags

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne)

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

Schenck v. United States

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

Scientific Revolution

Scopes, John

Scott, Dred

Scott, Walther

Scott, Winfield

search warrants (writs of assistance)

secession

Essex Junto; Lincoln on; New England states; Southern states

Second American Revolution

Second Great Awakening

“Second Inaugural Address” (Lincoln)

Second New Deal

Second Treatise of Civil Government (Locke)

Securities and Exchange Commission

Sedition Act

Seeley, John

“Self-Reliance” (Emerson)

Separatists

September 2001, terrorist attacks

Serviceman’s Readjustment Act

servitude, indentured

Seventeenth Amendment

Seven Years’ War

Seward, William

Shakers

sharecropping

Share Our Wealth Society

Shawnee tribe

Shays, Daniel

Shay’s Rebellion

Sherman, Roger

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

“Significance of the Frontier in American History, The” (Turner)

Silent Majority

Sinclair, Upton

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Edwards)

Sino-Japanese War

Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance

Sirhan, Sirhan

Sixteenth Amendment

Slater, Samuel

slave codes

slavery

abolitionist movement; Civil War and; Constitution on; economics of; Fugitive Slave Act; Fugitive Slave Law; history of, in America; as institution; in Mexico; Missouri Compromise and; Northwest Ordinance prohibiting; Southern; Wilmot Proviso opposing

slave society

slaves, emancipated

slave uprisings

Slidell, John

Smith, Adam

Smith, Al

Smith, Hyrum

Smith, John

Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Smith, Sidney

Smith Act

Social Gospel

Socialist Party

Social Security

Social Security Act

Social Security Trust Fund

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,”

South, the

class structure; cotton economy; culture of; emergence of the; slavery in the

South Carolina

South Carolina Exposition and Protest (Calhoun)

Southerner Discovers the South, A (Daniels)

Soviet Union. see also Communism

Afghanistan invasion; in China; Cold War; in Cuba; end of the; expansionism; Germany divided; rivalry with China; space exploration; in World War II

space exploration

Spanish–American War

Spanish Civil War

Spanish colonialism

Spanish exploration

Spanish influenza

Spender, Stephen

Spirit of St. Louis

Square Deal

stagflation

Stalin, Josef

Stamp Act

Standard Oil Company

Stanley, Ann Lee

Stanton, Edwin

Starr, Ellen

“Star-Spangled Banner, The” (Key)

State, The (Wilson)

states rights

“Steal Away to Jesus,”

steamboat technology

steel manufacture

Steffens, Lincoln

Stephens, Alexander

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von

Stevenson, Adlai

Story, Joseph

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strategic Defense Initiative

Strong, Josiah

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

submarine warfare

suburban development

Suez Canal

Sugar Act

Sumner, Charles

Supreme Court

Taft, Robert

Taft, William Howard

Taft–Hartley Act

Taino people

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de

Taney, Roger B.

Tappan, Arthur

Tappan, Lewis

Tarbell, Ida

Tariff of 1832

tariffs, protective

Tariff of 1828

Tarkington, Booth

taxation

Economic Recovery Tax Act; JFK administration; LBJ administration; post-Revolution; post–World War I; Revenue Act; tax protests

Taylor, Frederick Winslow

Taylor, Zachary

Tea Party (1773)

Tea Party (2009)

Teapot Dome scandal

Tecumseh

telegraph

Teller, Henry

temperance movement

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Tenth Amendment

Tenure of Office Act

terrorism

Ku Klux Klan; post–World War I; World Trade Center bombing (1993); World Trade Center Twin Towers attacks (2001)

Tet Offensive

Texas

Texas Revolution

textile manufacturing

Thirteenth Amendment

This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)

Thoreau, Henry David

Thurmond, Strom

Tilden, Bill

Tilden, Samuel J.

time standardization

tobacco

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Townsend, Francis E.

Townsend Recovery Plan

Townshend, Charles

Townshend Acts

trade

British; doctrine of neutral rights; domestic; Embargo Act; French and Indian War; Louisiana Purchase and; regulation of

trade agreements

Trail of Tears

Transcendentalism

Transportation Department

transportation system

highway construction; railroad industry

Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Versailles

Tregaskis, Richard

Truman, Harry S.

Truman Committee

Truman Doctrine

Trump, Donald J.

Tubman, Harriet

Turkey

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Turner, Nat

Twain, Mark

Twelfth Amendment

Twenty-Second Amendment

Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

Underground Railroad

unemployment insurance

unions

Unitarianism

United Nations

unwarranted search and seizure

urbanization

urban reform

Utopia (More)

utopianism

Valentino, Rudolph

Van Buren, Martin

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Vasco da Gama

V-E Day

Veterans Administration

Veterans Day

Victory ships

Vietnam

Vietnam War

Virginia

Virginia Company

Virginia Plan

virtual representation doctrine

voting rights

Voting Rights Act

Wade–Davis Bill

Wagner, Robert

Wagner Act

Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Thoreau)

Wallace, George C.

Wallace, Henry A.

War Democrats

warfare-welfare state

War Guilt Clause

War Hawks

War Industries Board (WIB)

War of 1812

war on poverty

War Powers Act

War Production Board

Warren, Earl

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, George

Washington Conference

Washington D.C.

Watergate

Watts riots

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)

Weber, Max

Webster, Daniel

Weimar Republic

Weissmuller, Johnny

Weld, Theodore Dwight

welfare reform (Clinton)

West Germany

Westinghouse, George

“What Is a Nation?” (Renan)

Whig Party

White, William Allen

Whitefield, George

Whitlock, Brand

Whitman, Walt

Whitney, Eli

Williams, Roger

Willkie, Wendell

Wills, Helen

Wilmot, David

Wilmot Proviso

Wilson, Charles

Wilson, Sloan

Wilson, Woodrow

Winthrop, John

Wolfe, James

women

feminist movement; inequality, colonial era; slave; voting rights; workforce protections for; World War I workforce

women’s rights

Wood, Robert E.

Worcester v. Georgia

Wordsworth, William

Works Progress Administration

World Trade Center bombing

World Trade Center Twin Towers attacks

“World Turned Upside Down, The” (ballad)

World War I

casualties; causes underlying, ; civil rights protections; disillusionment following; economy; economy post-; effects following; end of; FDR’s use of; intensification; peace talks; public position on; submarine warfare; U.S. entry into

World War II

Allied response; atomic bombing; casualties; celebrations post-; D-Day invasion; demobilization; economy; end of; European theater; events leading up to; industrialization; internment camps; legacy; minority involvement; Pacific theater; postwar world; postwar years; public position on; recovery and rebuilding post-; relief programs; strategic bombing; submarine warfare; U.S. entry into; U.S. involvement pre-entry

“WPA” (Mills Brothers)

Wright, Elizur, Jr.

Yalta Conference

yellow journalism

Young, Brigham

Young Americans for Freedom

Zimmerman Telegram

Zionist movement