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Aberdeen, Lord, 447, 459

abolitionists, 366-7, 393-4, 412-13, 459, 466, 473, 479, 518-22, 548-9, 565, 577; attacks against, 514, 518, 519, 522; and Brown, 589-91; and Civil War, 620, 625-6; and fugitive slaves, 393, 522; and Kansas-Nebraska Territory, 544 545-9, 551-2; newspapers of, 511, 514, 518, 521; political action by, 467-70, 521, 562; and religion, 500-1; strategy of, 519-22; women, 400, 403, 412-13; see also slavery

Adams, Abigail, 16-19, 58, 68, 69, 78, 106, 122, 123, 125, 128, 133, 143, 145, 168, 183, 268, 271-2

Adams, Charles, 145

Adams, Charles Francis, 619

Adams, Henry, 257, 433

Adams, John, 16-18, 24, 28, 35, 43, 66, 78, 91, 138, 161, 191, 227, 235, 267-8, 270-3, 368, 377, 378, 419, 476, 519; approves Alien and Sedition Acts, 125, 127, 138, 226, 263; character of, 106, 109, 146, 224-7, 228, 269; correspondence with Jefferson, 18-19, 226, 271-2; criticism of, 122, 128-30, 138, 271; death of, 273; and Declaration of Independence, 15, 23, 272; election of 1796, 107-9; election of 1800, 145-7, 151-3, 227; and foreign affairs, 100, 120-6; on government, 17-18, 109, 224-6, 272; midnight appointments of, 166, 183-4, 186; presidency of, 109-10, 120-33, 137, 145-6, 147-8, 159, 164, 168, 215, 260, 261, 370, 428; on property rights, 25, 226; reaction to Shays’s Rebellion of, 17-19; vice-presidency of, 68, 69-70, 71, 74, 83, 92, 103; war policy of, 121-6, 128; and XYZ Correspondence, 123

Adams, John Quincy, 17, 169, 170, 209, 232, 259-60, 324, 326, 327, 338, 352, 356, 420, 455; election of 1824, 264-8, 321, 378; election of 1828, 320-3; on Essexmen, 224; in Ghent treaty negotiations, 232-4; Indian policy of, 95, 452; as Minister to England, 235, 245; and Monroe Doctrine, 250-4; and morality in foreign affairs, 253-4; politics of, 228, 269; presidency of, 268-70, 272, 311, 370, 445; and property rights, 27, 268; as Secretary of State, 239, 245, 247-8, 252-4, 264, 440; on slavery issue, 465, 518; and tariff issue, 269-270

Adams, Samuel, 35, 43, 49-51, 74

Adams, Thomas, 143

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819), 248

Adet, Citizen, 109, 121

agriculture, 3-4, 72-3, 256, 274-5, 362, 433, 535; absentee ownership in, 283, 286; competition in, 528-9; and county fairs, 286-7, 308, 528; credit in, 13-14, 276, 285-6; depression in, 274, 328-9, 589; expansion of, 140-1, 526-9, 534; experiments in, 140-1, 278, 284, 286, 529, 530; farm families, 73, 141, 281-2, 293, 394-5; machinery and tools for, 275, 280, 282, 284, 286-7, 295, 307, 308, 394, 430, 527, 530, 533-4, 535; and protective tariff, 269-70; and slavery, 274, 275, 282-5, 301, 302; tenant farmers, 278-9; transportation of products, 276-7, 285, 286, 287, 299, 301-2, 528; see also individual regions

Alabama, 173, 450, 452, 468; migration to, 282, 315; secession of, 597

Alamo, 454-5

Alba, Duke of, 338-9

Albany, NY, 57, 91-2, 296, 298, 304, 370, 440, 603

Albany Argus, 371, 515

Albany Regency, 321, 343, 371-3

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 482, 487, 489

Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 100

Alexander, Capt. Edward, 611

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 194

Alexandria, Va., 64-5, 214, 609

Algiers, 195, 236

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 125-33, 138, 141, 184, 215, 226, 230, 263, 330; see also Kentucky resolution; Virginia resolution

Alison, Francis, 111

Allegheny Portage Railroad, 304, 316, 352

Allen, Charles, 472

Allen, John, 127

Allen, Samuel Clesson, 361

Allston, Washington, 489

Alton, Ill., 518-19, 528, 583

Alton Observer, 518

American Colonization Society, 329, 366, 468

American Indians, 4-7, 176, 178, 333, 370, 451-4, 621; as ally of Britain, 6, 96, 207, 216, 233-4; culture and governments of, 452-4; depredations against and removal of, 449, 450, 452-4; and federal government, 5-6, 55, 95-7, 180, 451-4, 543; inequality, political and social, of, 362, 383, 410, 453-, 519, 597; of Latin America, 244; uprisings by and wars with, 6, 27, 93, 94, 95-7, 207, 452, 456; in War of 1812, 211, 212-13, 216-17, 452; in West, 178-83, 207, 471; see also individual peoples

American national character, 8-9, 21; chauvinism in, 207-9, 237-5, 445-9, 454, 457, 458, 536, 538; Dickens’ assessment of, 317, 353; escapism in, 438, 443; Europeans on, 317-18, 353-4, 448, 536-7; on frontier, 207, 317-18, 477; ideological divisions in, 547-8; self-image of, 26, 237; speed mania in, 432; Tocqueville’s assessment of, 355-7, 449-50

American Philosophical Society, 22, 111, 116, 161, 179

American Revolution, 6, 13, 23, 25, 28, 99-100, 149, 220-1, 222, 480, 571

Ames, Fisher, 49, 84, 104, 147, 161, 218, 229

Anderson, Maj. Robert, 606-7

Andover Theological Seminary, 477, 508

Anglicans, 7, 111, 112, 257, 494

Annapolis Convention (1786), 16, 28

Antietam Creek, Battle of, 624

Anti-Federalists, 26, 29, 60-2, 68, 79, 82, 85, 89, 369; and ratification of Constitution, 43-4, 46-58; see also Republican party (Jeffersonian)

Anti-Masons, 334, 336, 341, 373, 380-1, 423, 437

antislavery movement, see abolitionists Brown, John; Conscience Whigs; Free Soil movement; Republican party; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; and other individuals and organizations

Appleton, Nathan, 292, 294, 437

Archilochus, 379

architecture, 106-7, 112, 430

Argus of Western America, 326

Ankara Indians, 180-1

Arista, Gen. Mariano, 461

Aristotle, 29

Arizona, 464

Arkansas, 242, 453, 530, 608, 621

Arkwright, Richard, 291

armaments industry, 216, 287-9, 290-1, 534

arms, 179-80; right to bear, 90

Armstrong, John, 212-13

Army, U.S., 124, 201, 215; in Indian wars, 96, 452; in Mexican War, 460-4; in War of 1812, 210-11, 212-13, 214; see also Union Army Articles of Confederation, 6, 23, 25, 39, 85, 261; Congress under, 16, 17, 43, 76, 96; faults of, 26, 29, 44; proposed Revision of, 28-9, 34, 49,

Ashburton, Lord, 447-8, 458

assembly, freedom of, 55, 90, 91, 130

Astor, John Jacob, 429

Atchison, David R., 544

Atlantic Monthly, The, 588

Aupaumut, Capt. Hendrick, 96

Austerlitz, Battle of, 194-5, 197

Austin, Moses, 454

Austin, Stephen F., 454

Austria, 194, 213, 232, 249

Bache, Benjamin, 108-9, 122, 128-9

Back, H. E, 397

Bagley, Sarah, 397-400

Bailey, Thomas, 200, 234

Bailyn, Bernard, 117

Baker, Edward Dickinson, 620

Baldwin, James, 527

Baldwin, Luther, 129

Ball, Burgess, 99

Baltimore, Md., 65, 259, 333-4, 337, 342, 380, 393, 431, 469, 536, 560, 592-3, 604, 616, 619; in War of 1812, 214-15

Baltimore Patriot, 513-14

Baltimore Sun, 514

Bancroft, George, 361, 487

banking, 14, 80, 285-6, 295-6; and federal government, 86, 424-5, legislation, 339-40, 424-6, 435; and Panic of 1857, 588-9; state system, 236, 344-5· 373, 374, see also United States Bank

Bank of New York, 80

Banks, Nathaniel P., 553, 560

Baptists, 7, 24, 257, 373, 439, 494-5, 496-7, 514

Barbary pirates, 195-6, 212

Barber, Benjamin, 140

Barlow, Joel, 297

Barnard, Henry, 505-7

Barnburners, 468-70, 549

Bates, Edward, 593-4, 604, 626

Bayard, James. 232-3

Beaumont, Gustave de, 354

Beauregard, Gen. Pierre G. T, 606, 609-11

Bee, Gen. Barnard, 610

Beecher, Catharine, 507-8

Beecher, Henry Ward, 546

Beecher, Lyman, 497-500, 507

Belgium, 438

Bell, John, 593, 596-7

Bellevue, N.Y.C., 407

Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 245, 267

Benjamin, Judah, 612-13

Bennett, James Gordon, 513, 515

Benson, Lee, 373

Benton, Thomas Hart, 208, 242, 321, 327-8, 343-4, 358, 421, 425, 458, 473, 544, 560

Berlin, 416

Berlin, Isaiah, 379

Bernard, John, 256

Bestor, Arthur, 442

Bethlehem, Pa., 146, 439

Biddle, Nicholas, 239, 335, 337-9, 340, 347, 361, 373, 378, 445, 46, 513

Biddle, Owen, 117

Billings (Adams’s hired man), 106

Bill of Rights, 89-90, 91, 125, 130, 134, 141, 493, 511; absence of, in Constitution, 42, 50, 51, 53-5, 57, 59, 60, 69; in state constitutions, 60, 89, 134, 511

Birkbeck, Morris, 315-16

Birney, James G., 468

Bismarck, Otto von, 531

black Americans, 7, 81; African culture of, 149, 387, 568; colonization of, 360, 366-7, 394, 468, 500, 626; education of, 111, 115; and Emancipation Proclamation, 625-8; employment of, 406, 408, 409; equal rights for, 510; inequality of and prejudice against, 114, 142, 263, 356, 362, 365, 383, 384, 392-4, 407, 410, 469, 510, 519, 548, 564, 572, 576, 584-7, 597, 623; leadership of, 149-51, 387, 391-2, 394-5, 415; suffrage for, 392; urban, 80-1, 114, 116; see also slavery

Black Hawk, 452

Blackstone, Sir William, 363

Blair, Francis Preston, 326, 332, 375

Blair, Montgomery, 605, 626

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 573

Bliss, George, Jr., 432

Bloomington, Ill., 555, 558, 622-3

Bogardus, James, 534

Bolivar, Simon, 248, 251

book publishing, 588

Boone, Daniel, 180, 449

Boorstin, Daniel, 429

Boscawen, N.H., 279, 281

Boston, 7, 8, 50, 235, 240, 337-8, 339, 361, 403, 429-30, 480, 508, 512, 514, 518-19, 529, 549-550, 589: Dickens on, 351, 352; as financial center, 220, 296; Jubilee of 1826 in, 270, 273; politics in, 74, 161, 220, 435-5, 545; as port city, 220, 276, 373, 374, 432, 536; religion in, 476, 483, 499; society and culture in, 14, 220-21, 222-3, 355, 393, 408-9, 435-7, 478, 481, 482, 589; Washington’s visit to, 73-4; see also New England

Boston American Herald, 50

Boston Associates, 292-6

Boston Courier, 434

Boston Daily Times, 514

Boston Gazette, 99

Boston Independent Chronicle, 139, 188-9

Boston Post, 514

Boston Statesman, 374

Boston Transcript, 512

Boulton, Matthew, 297, 300

Bowdoin, James, 14, 33, 35, 49

Bowie, James, 455

Bowler, Jack, 149-50

Bowles, Samuel, 512, 546

Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, 492

Bradford, David, 98

Bradford, William, 110

Bragg, Braxton, 464

Brant, Irving, 168

Brant, Joseph, 6

Brazil, 244, 249

Breckinridge, John, 186

Breckinridge, John C, 592, 597, 614

Bridger, Jim, 455

Brisbane, Albert, 442-3

British Honduras, 540

Brook Farm, Mass., 443, 489, 491

Brooks, Preston S., 552, 565, 566

Brooks, Van Wyck, 222, 482, 488

Brown, Jacob, 213

Brown, John, 522, 551, 589-91

Brown, Joseph, 613

Brown, Moses, 292

Brown, Paul, 442

Brown College, 74

Brown family, 302, 307

Browning, Orville, 558

Bruchey, Stuart, 433

Bryant, William Cullen, 201, 547, 588, 594, 596; Thanatopsis, 477

Buchanan, James, 421, 458; and Dred Scott decision, 577-8, 582-3; in election of 1856, 559-62; Minister in London, 536, 538, 539; presidency of, 563, 578-80, 589, 591, 599, 603, 606

Buell, Don Carlos, 621

Buena Vista, Mexico, 462

Buffalo, N.Y., 302-3, 446, 470, 532

Buffalo Republic, 547

Bulfinch, Charles, 217, 220, 430, 478

Bull, Ephraim, 529

Bull Run, Battle of, 609-12, 615, 623, 624

Bulwer-Lytton, Henry, 540

Bunker Hill, Mass., 240, 430

Burnet, John, 129

Burns, Anthony, 549-50

Burns, Robert, 223

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose, 621, 626

Burr, Aaron: duel with Hamilton, 192, 193, 196; and election of 1796, 107-9; and election of 1800, 145, 147, 152-5, 196, 230, 378; treason trial of, 202-3; as vice-president, 159, 192; western conspiracy of, 196-7, 319

business, 533-5; criticism of, 485; investment in, 531, 534; and law profession, 436; and Panic of 1857, 588-9; and political parties, 427, 435-7, 593; power of, 347-8; see also capitalism; industry; labor

Butler, Andrew P., 544, 551-2

Butler, Franklin, 371

Butler, Pierce, 413

Byllesby, Langdon, 360

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 478

Cable, George W., 533

Cabot, George, 75, 153, 218, 231

Cabot, John, 75

Cabot, William, 276

Cabot family, 292, 307

Cadwalader, Gen. George, 619

Cairo, Ill., 532, 616, 617

Calhoun, Florida, 326, 332

Calhoun, John C, 427, 459, 525-6; in Congress, 235, 237, 240, 339, 346, 425, 470-1, 566, 570; debate with Webster, 337; feud with Jackson, 332-3, 334, 570; and nullification, 329, 330-1, 333, 336, 337, 544, 571-3; presidential ambitions of, 264-5, 268, 331, 333, 339, 572; and secession, 473-4; as Secretary of War, 239, 247, 264, 332; South Carolina Exposition of, 329; as vice-president, 268, 272, 322, 326-7, 332-3; and War of 1812, 209, 328

California, 392, 455-6, 515; admitted as free state, 472, 473, 475; gold rush in, 471, 475, 515, 534, 539, 587, 589; under Mexican rule, 455, 458, 460, 464; Mexican War in, 461-2

Calvinism, 78, 476, 479, 494, 497-8

Cambreleng, Churchill C 344-5

Cambridge, Mass., 51, 74, 222, 478, 481

Cameron, Simon, 594-5, 605, 617, 620

Campbell, John A., 575

Canada, 540; boundary disputes with, 7, 103, 235, 447-8; rebellion against British, 446-7; and War of 1812, 207-8, 210-11, 213, 234

canals, 236, 240-1, 286, 302-5, 309, 352, 528, 531; caste system on, 317; financing of, 302-3, 306, 309; labor on, see also Erie Canal; internal improvements

canneries, 529

Canning, George, 249, 251

Canot, Captain, 385

capitalism, 224, 333, 451, 574, 577

competition in, 438, 440, 443-4, 483, 491-2; expansion of, 251, 491, 593; and Jacksonian democracy, 347-8; see also business; industry; labor

Caribbean Sea, 102, 113-14, 124, 174, 244, 618

Carlisle, Pa., 48

Carlyle, Thomas, 481

Carroll, Anna Ella, 615

Carson, Kit, 455

Carter, Robert, III, 256

Cartwright, Peter, 496-7

Cash, W. J., 450

Cass, Lewis, 332, 469-70, 473, 565

Castlereagh, Viscount, 245, 249

Catawba Indians, 150

Catholic Church, 7, 78, 81, 373, 498-9, 500, 547, 554, 559; in Latin America, 244; persecution of, 498-9, 500, 509, 548; schools of, 509

Catlin, George, 451

cattle ranching, 528-9, 530

Central America, 244; isthmian canal in, 539-40, and Monroe Doctrine, 251-2; rebellions in, 248-9, 252; U.S. expansionist interest in, 539-40

Cerro Gordo, Mexico, 463

Chacabuco, Battle of, 248

Chambers, William, 376, 422

Chandler, Zachariah, 620

Channing, Edward, 240

Channing, William Ellery, 240, 434-6, 479, 481, 489, 518-19, 545

Chapman, Maria, 519-20

Chapultepec, 463-4

Charles River, 292-3, 478

Charles River Bridge case, 466

Charleston, S.C., 7, 52, 101, 107, 149, 319, 329, 337, 393, 412, 450, 514, 567, 569, 592; and Civil War, 605-7

Charlestown, Mass., 75, 430, 497

Charlottesville, Va., 182, 255, 273

Chase, James, 380

Chase, Salmon P., 469, 545-6, 554, 565, 594, 604, 626, 627

Chase, Samuel, 129-30, 146, 185, 186, 202, 228-9

Chateaubriand, François René de, 478

Chauncey, Comm. Isaac, 212

checks and balances: in Constitution, 34-5, 37, 38-9, 61, 63, 134-5, 168, 190, 193, 269, 368, 381, 605; in a republic, 17-18, 34, 118, 120, 134, 260-1, 262-3, 272, 372, 625

Cherokee Indians, 6, 95, 335, 452-3

Chesapeake, U.S.S., 199, 212, 228

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 450

Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 568

Chicago, Ill., 211, 450, 514, 528, 530-5 passim, 543, 555, 583, 594-6

Chicago Daily Tribune, 514

Chicago Democrat, 514

Chickasaw Indians, 6, 95, 452

Chicopee, Mass., 295, 307

Child, David Lee, 403, 411

Child, Lydia Maria, 402-3, 411-13, 520-1, 588, 590

Chile, 248

China, 542

Chippewa, Battle of, 213

Chippewa Indians, 96

Choctaw Indians, 6, 95, 452-3

Christianity, 457, 476; see also individual sects and denominations

Churubusco, Mexico, 463

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 225

Cincinnati, Ohio, 266, 300, 301-2, 352, 415, 420, 450, 500, 514, 545, 559, 573, 603, 604, 616

cities, 162, 302; competition among, 309; population of, 7, 80, 511; port, 218-23, 275-6, 295-6, 310, 344, 370, 528, 535-6; society in, 78-83, 115, 125, 355-6, 405-9

Civil War: battles, 605-7, 609-12, 621-2, 624, 626; blockade, 615, 618; causes, 449, 598-600; and Joint Committee ofCongress, 620; see also Confederate Army; Union Army

Claflin, H. B., 534

Clark, James, 374-5

Clark, William, 178-83, 190, 458

Clay, Cassius, 573

Clay, Henry, 239, 241, 268, 325, 326, 352, 358, 375, 427, 452, 525-6, 587, 593; American System of, 270, 320, 331; and censure of Jackson, proposed, 340, 346; and Compromise of 1850, 472-5; election of 1824, 264-7, 321; election of 1832, 331, 333-6, 376; in Ghent negotiations, 232-4; presidential ambitions of, 232, 264-7, 322, 331, 339, 341, 423-4, 426, 459, 468, 469; in Senate, 327, 337, 339, 345, 423-6; as Speaker of the House, 207, 235, 236-7, 243, 247, 264; as spokesman for West, 207-8, 232; and War of 1812, 207-8, 209

Clayton, John M., 540

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850), 540

Clermont (steamboat), 296, 311

Cleveland, Ohio, 420, 532, 535

Cleveland Leader, 547

Clinton, Iowa, 302

Clinton, De Witt, 210, 212, 227, 238, 265, 266, 273, 370-1, 440; and Erie Canal, 303-11 passim, 371

Clinton, George, 43-4, 55-7, 66, 69, 79, 92, 102, 192, 204, 210, 370, 378

clockmaking, 289-90

clothing trades, 406, 534

Cobb, Howell, 471

Coffin, Hannah, 281

Coffin, Thomas, 279-81

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 481

Collins, James, 485

Collins, Wilkie, 588

Colombia, 244, 265

Colorado, 464

Colt, Samuel, 290, 534

Columbia, S.C., 569, 572, 597

Columbia College, 31-2, 81

Columbian Centinel (newspaper), 176, 206-7, 217

Columbia River, 458-9

Columbus, Ohio, 420, 450

Commager, Henry S., 355

common law, 130, 143, 402, 436

Common Sense (Paine), 117-18

Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 416, 444, 467

communitarianism, 439-44

Compromise of 1850, 472-5, 522, 543, 598

Concord, Mass., 276, 529, 561; literati of, 468, 479-81, 483-8, 489, 590

Concord, N.H., 326, 338

Conestoga wagons, 315-16, 449

Confederate Army, 607, 614, 622-5, 628; in battle, 605-7, 609-12, 621-2, 624, 626; conscription in, 613-14; strategy of, 608

Confederate Navy, 621-2

Confederate States of America, 608, 612, 618, 626; border states in, 602, 604, 606, 608, 620, 626; constitution of, 601, 612; Davis as president of, 600-3, 606, 608, 612-14, 628; government of, 612-13; negative brand of liberty in, 613; states’ rights in, 612-14

Congregationalists, 7, 24, 52, 223, 373, 476, 494, 497-8, 507

Congress, U.S., 6, 76-7, 84-9, 97, 110-12, 146, 175, 199-201, 237, 240-1, 250-1, 259, 269-70, 301, 458, 459-60, 564; Alien and Sedition Acts, 125-33, 141; under Articles of Confederation, 16, 17, 43, 76, 96; bank issues, 335, 339-40, 344-6, 424-6; brokerage in, 61, 62, 243, 263, 270, 426, 427, 475, 565; caucus system in, 171-2, 183, 204, 210, 212, 228, 238, 265, 369, 378, 379; in Civil War, 615, 619-21, 626-7; Dickens on, 352; enumerated powers of, 38-9, 40, 152, 188, 215, 619; and Mexican War, 461, 465; and national defense, 210, 215, 235, 236; negative veto in, 37, 262; and nullification and secession, 327-31, 336-7, 603, 605; political parties in, 104, 136, 145, 171-2, 369, 377; representation in, 36-7, 61, 62-3, 465-6; and slavery issue, 242-3, 345-6, 464, 465-6, 470-1, 472-5, 543-7, 549-50, 551-2, 591, 625; in War of 1812, 206, 208-9, 211, 328; see also House of Representatives; legislative branch; Senate

Connecticut, 49, 72-3, 94, 280, 282, 288, 290, 351, 433, 505, 506, 528, 536; politics in, 183, 231, 239

Connecticut compromise, 37, 40

Connecticut River, 220, 223, 231, 310, 448

Conscience Whigs, 468-70, 549

conservatives, 345, 372, 374, 422; fear egalitarianism, 118, 224; for suffrage restrictions, 226, 364, 365; see also Essex. Junto

Constitution, U.S., 38, 61, 135, 215, 252, 261, 366, 379, 465, 493, 520, 615; amending, 40, 42, 89-90, 177; broad construction of, 87-8, 177, 259, 261: and citizenship and statehood, 176-7, 576; debates over interpretation of, 104, 240; and federalism, 34-5, 40, 61, 135, 136, 140, 260, 262, 369, 374, 598; and impeachment, 40, 60; intellectual roots of, 28, 29, 368; ratification of, 40, 42-59, 89-90, 104, 134, 367, 428; strict construction of, 177, 258, 423, 466; see also Bill of Rights; checks and balances; separation of powers

Constitution, U.S.S., 196, 211

Constitutional Convention, 16, 19, 23, 27-42, 49, 62, 104, 134; see also Framers of Constitution

Constitutional Union party, 593

construction industry, 405, 406, 433, 534

Continental Congresses, 23, 24, 28

contracts, sanctity of, 27, 260, 400

Contreras, Mexico, 463

conventions, see nominating conventions

Coolidge, John, 480

Cooper, James Fenimore, 477

Cooper, Thomas, 129-30, 569, 572

Cooperstown, N.Y., 477

Cooper Union, N.Y.C., 594

Copley, John Singleton, 221

cotton, 141, 274-5, 276, 277, 282-7, 302, 315, 318-9, 450, 529-30, 567, 589, 608, 618; see also textile industry

cotton gin, 275, 282, 287-8, 291, 295, 308, 311, 315, 347, 567

Cotton Whigs, 468, 470, 545

courts, 14, 39, 55, 70, 90, 130, 184, 375, 392; equality in, 17-18, 453; see also judicial branch

Cowles, Alfred, 514

Coxe, Tench, 89

Cranch, Mary, 122

Cranch, Richard, 71

Crane, Ichabod, 558

Crawford, William H., 238-9, 247, 254-5, 264-7, 378

Creek Indians, 6, 216-17, 452-3

Crimean War, 539-40, 588

Crittenden, John J., 425, 565, 593

Crockett, Davy, 455

Cuba, 249; U.S. interest in, 537-9

culture: of liberty, 476-522; in New England, 476-92; urban, 78-9, 81, 110-11, 112, 115, 220, 222-3; Virginia, 255-7, 263-4, 482

Cumberland, Md., 299, 450

Cummings, Arthur, 610-11

Cummins, Maria S., 517

Cunningham, Noble, 190

Curtis, Benjamin R., 575

Curtis, James, 346

Cushing, William, 185, 222

Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory, 282-5

Dalzell, Robert, 466

Dana, Francis, 49

Dana, Samuel, 127

Dane, Nathan, 231

Dangerfield, George, 267, 270

Daniel, Peter V., 575

Dartmouth College, 74, 478

Davis, David, 556, 558, 595

Davis, Jefferson, 462, 473, 564-5; as president of Confederacy, 600-3, 606, 608, 612-14, 628; as Secretary of War, 545, 564

Davis, Richard Beale, 255

Davis, Varina (Mrs. Jefferson), 601

Day, Benjamin H., 512-13

Day, Luke, 14

Dayton, Ohio, 210, 419-20

Dearborn, Henry, 166

Decatur, Ill., 558

Decatur, Capt. Stephen, 196, 236

Declaration of Independence, 15, 21, 23, 40, 49, 62, 140, 142, 249, 270, 272-3, 352, 383, 411, 572, 573, 584, 586-7, 595, 604

Declaration of the Rights of Man, 99

Deere, John, 430, 527

Defoe, Daniel, 112; Robinson Crusoe, 527

Delaware, 47, 239, 504

Delaware Indians, 6, 96

democracy, 118, 225, 457; and education, 502, 506, 510; equality in, 19, 20-1, 354-8, 361-2, 383, 411, 416, 525; Jacksonian, 347-50, 354-8, 361-2, 363-4, 376, 453, 511; work ethic in, 506, 510; see also republic

Democracy in America, see Tocqueville, Alexis de

Democratic party, 343, 358, 373, 435-6, 466-7, 515, 525, 536, 554; and Civil War, 615; in Congress, 340, 344, 566, 577; convention and election of 1860, 592-3, 596-7, 600; election of 1832, 331-6, 380; election of 1836, 341-2; election of 1840, 421-2; election of 1848, 468-70; election of 1856, 559-62; factions in, 330, 338, 345, 360, 361, 425, 427, 466, 468-71, 553-4; fiscal policies of, 344-6, 347; formation of, 322-3; lack of political philosophy in, 348-9; as majority, 576-8, 579, 599; and “manifest destiny,” 458, 459, 538-40; slavery issue in, 348-9, 465, 467, 468-71, 473, 547-8, 554, 558, 626; in South, 559, 560-2, 564, 576-8, 579-80, 592-3, 599; state, 373, 374, 408; see also Jackson, Andrew: and Democratic party

Denmark, 24

Derna, Libya, 196

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 515

Detroit, Mich., 210, 212-13, 450, 532

Dial, The (journal), 483

Dickens, Charles, 317, 351-3, 356, 527, 575

Dickinson, John, 35

Diderot, Denis, 100

District of Columbia, 424, 470, 472

divorce, 360, 361, 402

Dixon, Archibald, 544

Doherty, E. P., 610

Donald, David, 574

Donelson, Emily, 332

Dorr, Thomas, 365

Dorr’s Rebellion, 466

Douglas, Stephen A., 457, 473, 565, 580-1, 615; in convention and election of 1860, 592-3, 596-8, 600; debates with Lincoln, 557, 581-7, 594; election of 1856, 559; and Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 543-7, 549, 551-2, 557; popular sovereignty doctrine of, 544, 550, 577, 579-80, 584-5, 592

Douglass, Frederick, 393-4, 412-13, 590, 626

Duane, James, 56, 81

Duane, William, 162, 199, 339

Du Bois, W. E. B., 14, 149

Dubuque, Iowa, 302

Du Pont Company, 430

Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 165, 169, 430

Durfee, Amos, 446-7

Dutch, 81, 113, 114; canal system, 302 Dutch Reformed Church, 7, 78, 370

Dwight, Timothy, 161, 167, 280, 492, 493, 494, 497-8

Dwight family, 292, 307

Eads, James Buchanan, 617

East, the, 86, 277, 309, 355, 356, 494, 528-9; see also New England; North, the

East Chelmsford, Mass., 294

East Indies, British, 103

Eastman, Mehitable, 398-9, 403

Eaton, Clement, 573

Eaton, Maj. John H., 321, 325-6

Eaton, Peggy (Mrs. John), 326-7, 332

Eberhardt, Johann Ludwig, 289-91

economy, 140-1; change in, and internal improvements, 302, 306-11; credit in, 276, 285-6, 339-40, 360, 374, 434, 451; and equality, 361-2; expanding, 29, 433, 533-5, 553, 587-9, 593; federal action in, 84, 236-7; and politics, 428-9; see also banking; fiscal policies; Panic

education, 111-12, 115, 407, 441, 453, 476, 482, 486: classical, 28, 44, 111; and democracy, 502, 506, 510; parochial, 509; private, 75-6, 504-6, 507; public, 76, 352, 358, 360, 372, 467, 498, 501-11, 565; and religion, 497-8, 506, 507-9; in a republic, 19, 109, 144, 501-2

Edwards, Jonathan, 196, 497

election campaigns, 107, 147, 265-7, 375, 378-9, 419-22, 583, 596; see also political parties

Electoral College, 38, 67, 107-8, 148, 152, 227, 266, 367; and Twelfth Amendment, 229-30

Ellet, Charles, 617, 621

Ellsworth, Oliver, 184

Emancipation Proclamation, 625-8

Embargo Act (1807), 199-203, 205, 228, 230, 276, 278, 282, 291, 488

Emerson, Dr. John, 576

Emerson, Lidian (Mrs. Ralph Waldo), 479-80, 481, 561

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 223, 331, 396, 451, 476-88, passim, 491, 517, 522, 526, 545, 561, 588, 590; Conduct of Life, The, 588; Nature, 481-2

Emporia Kansas News, 579

Engels, Friedrich, 416, 444, 467

England, 249, 368, 416, 431, 438, 477, 625; liberty in, 23-4, 61, 117, 571; manufacturing, 200, 217, 251, 275, 282, 285-6, 291-2, 293, 439; trade, 249, 251, 506; see also Great Britain

Enlightenment, 493

Ephrata, Pa., 439

Episcopalians, 257

Eppes, John W, 258

equality, 142-3; economic, 361-2, 440; inegalitarianism, 143, 355-6, 383-4, 440, 441-2, 535, 597-8; and Jacksonian democracy, 347-8, 350, 354-8, 361-2; legal, 17-18, 362, 453; and liberty, 25, 143, 226, 228-9, 258, 263, 272, 347-8, 491, 500, 520, 571-3, 575, 587, 593; political, 362-3, 378, 584; social, 362, 440, 584; see also democracy: equality in; liberty

Eric Canal, 301, 302-4, 305, 431, 432, 450, 499, 517; financing and construction of, 302-3, 306-7, 309; grass-roots support for, 309, 310; passengers and freight on, 316-17, 528, 532

Erie Railroad, 408, 531

Essex Junto. 165, 223-4, 228, 230-1, 361

Europe, 16, 26, 172, 249, 252; culture in, 477, 478, 483; Holy Alliance in, 248-52; investments in U.S. from, 531, 534, 587; reaction to Monroe Doctrine in, 251; revolutionary movements in, 254, 416, 438, 467, 536-7, 538; see also Napoleonic wars

Eustis, William, 211

Evans, George H., 360, 517

Evans, Col. Nathan, 610

Evans, Oliver, 297

Everett, Edward, 341; 396, 434, 436, 452, 478, 501-2, 554, 578-9, 591, 593

Ewing, Thomas, 424

executive branch, 36, 37-8, 168, 187-9, 193, 226; see also President

factionalism, 91, 92, 93, 239, 241, 261, 502; and liberty, 29-30, 45, 54, 60-1

Fair, Charles, 622

Fairhaven, Mass., 541

Fallen Timbers, Battle of the, 97

Farley, Harriet, 396-7

farming, see agriculture

Farragut. David, 608, 621

federal government, 83, 383; bureaucracy of, 71, 78, 324-5, 346, 565, 617; factions in, 91, 92, 93, 502; geometry of balance in, 465-7, 472-5, 544, 598-9; and liberty, 62, 263, 491, southern power elite in, 576-8; strong, support for, 21, 26, 30, 34-7, 41, 42-58, 60, 126, 226, 241, 350, 433, 436; supremacy of, 259, 335; weak, support for, 43-4, 46-60, 61, 162, 258, 347; see also states’ rights: vs. federal government

federalism, 369, 374; see also Constitution, U.S.: and federalism

Federalist, 44-6, 60, 215, 261, 262, 511

Federalist party, 109, 137, 138, 164-6, 223, 227-31, 357, 369, 377; and Alien and Sedition Acts, 126-34, 138, 230; antiwar position in, 206, 208-9, 210, 217-18, 230-1, 235; in Congress, 122, 136, 153-4, 186, 190, 202, 209, 227, 235, 237, 378; control of judiciary by, 128, 183-6, 193; decline and fall of, 191-2, 217-18, 227-31, 239, 243, 266, 377, 420; election of 1796, 107-8; election of 1800, 145-8, 151-5, 227; election of 1804, 183, 227; election of 1808, 203-4, 227, 230; election of 1812, 210, 227; election of 1816, 227, 238-9; and foreign affairs. 102-4, 121, 123, 124, 174-7, passim, 200, 230, 231; Hartford convention of, 217, 218, 224, 231, 261; state, 210, 227, 229; view of liberty in, 226, 228-9, 231, 347; see also Essex Junto

Federalists (supporters of new Constitution), 30, 60-3, 69, 79-80, 82, 83-9, 98, 369; and ratification of Constitution, 42-58

Fell, Jesse. 595

Fenno, John, 80, 87, 90, 135

Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, 416, 467

Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 248-9

Fillmore, Millard: in election of 1856, 559-62; presidency of, 474, 525, 531, 542

Finney, Charles C, 492, 500

First Amendment, 493, 500

fiscal policies, 8, 13, 84-7, 97, 168-9, 344-7, 419-20, 457, 589; see also Hamilton, Alexander: as Secretary of Treasury

Fischer, David, 223, 228

fishing industry, 219-20, 234, 540

Fisk, Theophilus, 361

Fitch, John, 41, 277, 297

Fitzhugh, George, 572-4

Fitzsimmons, Thomas, 35

Flagg, Azariah, 371

Fletcher v. Peck (1810), 259

Florida, 452, 530, 597, 612

Florida, Spanish, 7, 173-4, 176, 207, 244-8; Jackson’s campaign in, 245-7, 320, 332

Foner, Eric, 118, 469

Foote, Comm. Andrew, 621

Force bill (1833), 337

foreign affairs; chauvinism in, 207-9, 237-8, 445-9, 458, 536, 538, and Constitution, 38, 61; disputes over, and domestic disputes, 99-105; expansionism, 536-40; interventionism, 251-4; leadership in, 252, 449; and liberty, 537; neutrality, 101-4, 195, 198, 205-6, 249, 254, 446; non-interventionism, 250-2; Realpolitik in, 245, 253; self-interest vs. morality in, 195, 252-4; see also Mexican War; War of 1812; and individual countries and residents

Forman, Joshua, 305-6

Forrest, Gen. Nathan Bedford, 622

Fort Dearborn, 1

Fort Donelson, 621

Fort Erie, 213

Fort Greenville, 97

Fort Henry, 621

Fort Johnson, 605

Fort Maiden, 213

Fort McHenry, 619

Fort Moultrie, 606

Fort Sumter, 605-7

Foster, William, 361

Fourier, Charles, 403, 442-4, 517

Fox, George, 527

Fox, Gustavus, 618

Framers of Constitution, 28-42, 83, 104, 262, 311, 364, 368, 428, 493, 565, 574, 587, 594; and absence of bill of rights, 42, 50, 51, 53-5, 57, 59, 60, 69; and checks and balances, 34-5, 37, 38-9, 61, 63, 368; and foreign and military affairs, 216, 252; oppose political parties, 13, 134, 379; and separation of powers, 36, 61, 63, 216, 261, 368; slavery compromise of, 39-40; see also Constitution, U.S.

France, 4, 5, 18, 80, 95, 99-100, 113, 124, 150, 162, 179, 232, 249, 250, 275, 297, 354, 416, 431, 438, 442, 467, 539; American sympathy for, 104, 109, 205, 208, 377; attacks U.S. shipping, 102, 121, 124, 205-6, 208, 291, 445; blockade of, 198-9; and Confederacy, 601; quasi-war with, 120-5, 127, U.S. claims against, 445-6; war declaration (1792) of, 99-102, 125; XYZ Correspondence, 123; see also Napoleon I

Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 194

Frankfort, Ky., 326

Franklin, Benjamin, 21-3, 30, 108, 111, 116, 117, 226, 302, 304, 448; at Constitutional Convention, 31, 35, 39, 40, 42; and liberty, 24-5

Franklin, James, 24

Fraunces, Phoebe, 81

Fraunces, Samuel, 81

Fraunces’ Tavern, NYC, 77, 81

Fredericksburg, Battle of, 626

Freedom, Pa., 604

Free Enquirer, The; 415, 517

Freehling, William, 333, 567

Free Inquirer, The, 360

Freeman, Elizabeth, 20

Free Soil movement (and party), 468-70, 545, 547-9, 553, 579, 584, 593

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 452

Frémont, Jessie Benton (Mrs. John C), 560

Frémont, Capt. John C, 462, 472, 616, 617, 620; in election of 1856, 559-62

French Revolution, 98, 99-100, 149, 445, 498, 571; American sympathy for, 99-101, 126, 137, 253

Freneau, Philip, 8, 1, 90, 93

Fries, John, 146

frontier, the, 7, 93, 94, 95-6, 395, 410, 416, 421, 449, 450, 507; American character on, 207, 317-18, 477; religion on, 492-7; see also West, the

Fuller, Margaret, 483, 487, 516

Fulton, Robert, 170, 277, 296-301, 308, 311, 431

Galena, 111, 562, 622

Gallatin, Albert, 127, 145, 166-7, 177, 200, 202, 205, 232-4, 236, 268, 304-5

Gallatin, James, 233-4

Gandhi. Mohandas K., 486

Garrison, William Lloyd, 366, 394, 411-12, 517, 519-21

Gassendi. Pierre, 170

Gazette of the United States, 80, 90

Geddes, James, 303

Genêt, Edmond, 101-2, 121

Genius of Universal Emancipation (journal), 517

Genovese, Eugene, 387

George III, King of England, 40, 194

Georgetown, 65, 168, 450

Georgia, 47, 92, 173, 246, 274, 286, 385, 409, 433, 597; Indians of, 452-3; states’ rights in, 335, 346; Yazoo land fraud, 259-60

German immigrants, 80, 113, 289-90, 405, 439, 450, 547, 549, 555, 622

Germany, 416, 431

Gerry, Elbridge, 121-4, and

Constitution, 31, 35, 38, 42, 43, 49-51

Ghent, Treaty of, 231-5

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), 259, 577

Giddings, Joshua, 595

Giles, William Branch. 185-6, 258

Gilmer, Thomas W., 424

Gladstone, William, 32

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 517

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 478, 481, 490

gold, see California: gold rush in

Goldsmith, Oliver, 112

Gonzales, Tex., 454

Goodyear, Charles, 534

Gorham, Nathaniel, 35

Gouge, William M., 344

government: Adams on, 17-18, 109, 224-6, 272; Jackson on, 348; Madison on, 29-30, 45-6; see also democracy; republic

grain products, 528, 529-30

granite, 429-30

Grant, Ulysses S., 462, 464, 617, 621, 623

Grayson, William, 53

Great Britain, 80, 141, 179, 222, 246, 247, 275, 297, 319, 405, 446, 512, 530, 539, 540, 542, 547, 587, American opinion of, 101-4, 205-6, 228, 231, 377, 445, 448; American possessions of, 95, 100, 173-4, 245, 455, 458-9, 540; attacks U.S. shipping, 102-3, 291; Canadian rebellion against, 446-7; and Confederacy, 601, 618-19; France declares war on (1792), 99-102, 125; and Ghent treaty, 232-5; and Holy Alliance, 249-50; impressment of seamen by, 103, 198-200, 203-9 passim, 228, 233-4; Indian allies of, 6, 96, 207, 216, 223-4; and Monroe Doctrine, 251; Royal Navy, 102, 194-5, 198, 205, 211, 212-14, 216, 220-1, 232, 234, 235, 251; and U.S.-Canadian boundary dispute, 7, 103, 235, 447-8; in War of 1812, 208-15, 216-17; see also Napoleonic wars

Great Lakes, 212-13, 233, 235, 305, 532; region, 310, 405, 449-50

Greece, 248, 250, 254

Greeley, Horace, 421, 433, 443-4, 487, 515-17, 530, 609, 612; and slavery, 546-7, 549, 580-1, 585, 594-5, 604, 625

Green, Constance McLaughlin, 566

Green, Duff, 332

Greene, Catherine, 274, 275, 287

Greytown, Mosquito Coast. 540

Grier, Robert C„ 575, 577

Grimké, Angelina and Sarah, 412-13, 521

Griswold, Roger, 138

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 464

Guerrière, H.M.S., 211

Guizot. Francois, 354

habeas corpus, Civil War suspension of, 613, 615, 619

Haiti, 360, 367

Hale, John P., 469-70

Hall, John, 289

Hallet, Benjamin, 519

Hamilton, Alexander, 19, 21, 23, 36, 68, 69, 72, 77, 81, 122-7 passim, 131, 133, 138, 146, 191, 227, 268, 433, 511, 607; duel of, with Burr, 192, 193, 196; and election of 1796, 107-9; election of 1800, 145, 147, 148, 153-5; and foreign affairs, 100-1, 103, 121, 253; and Jefferson, 90-1, 101; opposition to, 85-7, 93, 137; as Secretary of Treasury, 71, 79-80, 84-9; 90-1, 97-8, 168-9; supports strong central government, 26, 41, 42, 44-5, 55-S, 236, 246, 259

Hammond, James Henry, 572-4

Hampton, Wade, 608

Hampton Roads, Va., 622

Hancock, John, 33, 49, 51, 74, 519

Handlin, Oscar, 174

Hare, Robert, 434

Harmony, Ind., 439-40

Harper, Robert Goodloe, 259-60

Harper and Brothers, 588

Harpers Ferry, Va., 179, 289, 590, 609

Harper’s Weekly, 605

Harrington, James, 368

Harris, B. F., 528

Harris, Townsend, 542

Harrisburg, Pa., 265-6, 269

Harrison, Benjamin, 53

Harrison, William Henry, 207, 212-13, 341-2, 437, 622; election and presidency of, 419-22, 424, 468

Hartford. Conn., 31, 73, 218, 220, 222, 351; Federalist convention in, 217, 218, 224, 231, 261

Hartford and New Haven Railroad, 433

Hariz, Louis, 349, 435

Harvard College, 32, 74, 218, 221-4, 240, 255, 257, 271, 338, 351, 436, 477-8, 480-1, 483, 486, 519

Harvey, Charles T., 532

Havana, Cuba, 244, 538

Hawaii, 540-1

Hawkins, Hall, 389

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 223, 347, 487-90, 491, 517, 534, 588; Scarlet Letter, The, 476, 488-9

Hawthorne, Sophia (Mrs. Nathaniel), 489

Hayne, Robert Y 327-31, 336-7, 570

Hedge, Levi, 222

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 443

Helper, Hinton Rowan, 592

Henry, Patrick, 8, 29, 43, 53-5, 68, 91, 95, 108, 140, 255

Henshaw, David, 374, 376

Herald of Freedom (newspaper), 551

Herndon, William, 555-6, 558, 561, 580-1, 603

Herrera, José Joaquin, 460

Hidalgo, Miguel, 248

Higginson, Stephen, 218

Hildreth, Richard, 522

Hill, Isaac, 326

Hilliard, H. W., 472

history: causal agents in, 383-4, 422, 598; on Jackson, 346-7; original records in, 384, 396; stream of, 578

History of Paper Money and Banking (Gouge), 344

Hobbes, Thomas, 28

Hoe printing press, 535

Holland, 99, 172, 174, 175, 176, 447

Hollidaysburg Aurora, 316

Holmes, Mary J., 517

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 479, 588

Holyoke, Mass., 295

Hone, Philip, 475

Honolulu, Hawaii, 540

Hopkinson, Francis, 112

Horrocks and Johnson power loom, 292

Horseshoe Bend, Battle of, 217

Hough, Pvt. Daniel, 607

House of Representatives, 152-5, 266-7, 322, 408, 440; election to, 36-7, 61, 68, 364, 381; and foreign affairs, 103-4, 123; see also Congress

Houston, Sam, 454

Hudson River, 91, 172, 213, 233, 278, 296-7, 301-2, 305, 352, 370, 431-3

Hudson’s Bay Company, 455, 458-9

Hughes, Bishop John, 509

Hull, Capt. Isaac, 211

Hull, Gen. William, 210-11, 216

Hume, David, 28

Humphreys, David, 64, 70

Hungary, 416, 467, 536-7

Hunkers, 468-9

Hunt, Millicent Leib, 395, 402

Hunter, Gen. David, 620

Hunter, Robert M. T., 544

Hussey’s reaper, 527

ice industry, 429

Illinois, 299, 392, 452, 496, 499-500, 528, 529, 543, 554-5, 576, 599, 622-3;

migration to, 207, 315, 449, 450, 451, 527; politics in, 267, 556-9, 561-2, 580-7, 594-5

Illinois Central Railroad, 556, 589

immigrants, 141, 395, 404-9, 415, 433, 450, 530, 534, 553; and Alien Act, 126, 127-8; in cities, 80-1, 113, 114, 116, 356, 404-9; education of, 509-10, 565; employment of, 405-6, 408-9; and nativism, 547-8, 553-4, 559: and politics, 407-8, 554, 559

impressment, see Great Britain: impressment of seamen by indentured servants, 7, 114, 503

Independence, Mo., 456

Independent Journal, 44

Independent Treasury Act (1840), 344-6, 424, 426

Indiana, 207, 315, 392, 449, 496, 508, 527-8; canal system in, 305; communitarianism in, 439, 440-2; politics in, 562, 597, 603

individual rights: ideology of, 143, 415-16, 435, 437, 440, 479, 571-3; vs. community, 30, 115-16, 475, 491-2; see also liberty; man

industry, 433, 438; capital for, 80, 295-6, 534, 587; and equality, 355, 362; expansion of, 141, 251, 291, 295, 485, 533-5· 587-9, 599; and government, 84, 88-9, 236-7, 287-8, 291, 505, 564; and individual liberty, 485-7, 489-90, 491-2; machinery for, 216, 282, 288-9, 290-1, 295, 307, 396, 430, 533-4, 535; tariffs for, 236, 269-70, 293, 295, 347, 437, 505; see also business; capitalism; labor; textile industry

Ingham, Samuel D., 235, 325

Ingraham, Joseph. 284-5

Intellectuals, 27, 145, 442, 444, 477; of Virginia, 255-64 passim

internal improvements: competition for, 308-9; government subsidies for, 236, 240-1, 307-8, 309, 329, 331, 347, 505, 506, 564; as political issue, 320, 333, 334, 375, 435, 599; see also transportation

interstate commerce, 259, 301

Iowa, 392, 451, 527, 532

Ireland, 405, 407, 459

Irish immigrants, 80-1, 113, 126, 305, 309, 373, 405, 406, 407-8, 450, 480, 498, 547, 548, 555

iron, 530-1, 534

Iroquois Indians, 5, 6, 96

Irving, Washington, 477

Isely, Jeter, 547

Italy, 24, 174-5, 254, 416, 438

Izard, George, 213

Jackson, Andrew. 239, 268, 318-19, 343,-421, 453, 459, 580; and Calhoun, 332-3, 334, 570; censured by Senate, 340, 346, 423; and Congress, 247, 327, 346; and Democratic party, 323, 341, 340, 347-9, 359, 363-4, 381, 455, 457; in election of 1824, 265-7, 321, 378; in election of 1828, 320-3, 375-6; election of 1832, 331-6, 380; Florida campaign of, 245-7, 319, 332; and foreign affairs, 445-6, 455; kitchen cabinet of, 325-6, 339; nullification policy of, 329, 330-1, 335, 330-7, 346, 348, 357; presidency of, 323-41, 344, 345, 346-7, 358, 359, 361, 378, 383, 428, 575, 598, 619; spoils system of, 324-5, 333, 346, 374; supporters of, 269, 320-4, 349, 358, 423; tour of, 337-8; and United States Bank, 335-6, 338-40, 347, 373, 374, 375, 428, 466; in War of 1812, 213, 216-17, 231, 235, 319; see also democracy: Jacksonian

Jackson, George, 55

Jackson, James. 85, 88

Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 292, 294

Jackson. Rachel (Mrs. Andrew), 319, 323, 326-7, 402

Jackson, Gen. Thomas (Stonewall), 610-11, 613, 622, 623, 624

Jalapa, Mexico, 463

Japan, 542

Jay, John, 19, 41, 43, 44-5, 53, 56-7, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 79, 103, 147, 148, 152, 154, 184, 215, 235

Jay, Mrs. John, 81

Jay family, 370

Jay treaty (1794), 103-4, 120, 226, 137

Jefferson, Thomas, 18, 26, 43, 55, 77, 162, 231, 260, 319, 325, 340, 347, 357, 360, 368, 377, 414, 419, 435, 439, 478, 483, 493; Alien and Sedition Acts opposed by, 126, 127, 131-2, 184, 230, 330; and Burr conspiracy, 197, 202-3; and canals, 303, 305-6, 310; character and philosophy of, 62-3, 161-3, 165, 168, 170, 171, 238, 501, 502; and Congress, 165, 167, 168-72, 202, 263; correspondence with Adamses, 18-19, 226, 271-2; and Declaration of Independence, 23, 40, 272, 411; in election of 1796, 107-9, 378; election of 1800, 144-7, 151-5, 378; in election of 1804, 183, 227; and Embargo Act, 199-202, 203, 230; and foreign affairs, 162, 167, 168, 173-5, 195-201, 230, 249, 253; and French Revolution, 99-100; and Hamilton, 90-1, 101; and judiciary, 183-9, 193, 202; and Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, 131-2, 134, 139, 145, 162; and Lewis and Clark expedition, 178-83, 190; and Louisiana Purchase, 176-8, 189, 230; and Madison, 28, 91-2, 203-4, 206, 208, 212, 255; at Monticello, 106-7, 163, 168, 201, 255, 256, 270-3, 440; and political parties, 90, 99, 135, 239, 279; political strategy and appointments of, 161, 164-7, 186, 190-2, 239; presidency of, 159-72, 183-93, 195, 205, 215, 228, 259, 260, 261, 263, 378, 383, 428, 598; on rebellion, 18-19, 162; and Republican party, 122, 137, 138-9, 145, 146-7, 159, 164-7, 169-72, 173, 184, 185-6, 190-2, 202, 258, 262-3, 269, 369, 498, 549; as Secretary of State, 71, 88, 90-1, 101, 103, 162; and slavery issue, 151, 243; as vice-president, 108-9, 122, 138, 146, 162

Jerusalem, Va., 392

Jervis, John B, 432

Jews, 7, 78, 81, 92

Johnson, Andrew, 346

Johnson, Richard M., 235, 342, 421

Johnson, Samuel, 25

Johnson, William Samuel, 31

Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney, 608, 621

Johnston, Gen. Joseph, 463, 609-10, 613

Johnstone, Robert, 169, 172

Jones, Anson, 460

Jones, Charles Colcock, 385-8, 390-1

Jones, Mary (Mrs. Charles Colcock), 388

Jones, William, 212

Jubilee of 1826, 270, 272-3

Judd, Norman, 595

judicial branch, 36, 38-9, 40, 60, 128, 183-6, 193, 619; independence of, 184-9, 193, 202, 350, see also courts; Supreme Court judicial review, 40, 133, 187-9, 93, 202, 577

Judiciary Act: of 1789, 70, 130, 186-9; of 1801, 168, 183-4, 186, 202