American History

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

Preface

Abnaki

(1)

Abortion

(3)

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

(3)

Adena

(1)

Advertising

(2)

Affirmative Action

(1)

African-American Religions and Sects

(2)

African Americans

(4)

African Methodist Episcopal Church

(1)

Afro-American Migration

(1)

Agrarian Movement

(1)

Agriculture, Department of

(1)

Air Force, United States

(6)

Aircraft, Development of

(3)

Alamo, Siege of the

(1)

Albany Congress

(1)

Alcatraz

(1)

Algonquin

(1)

Alien and Sedition Laws

(1)

Amana Community

(1)

Ambassadors

(1)

Amendments to the Constitution

(2)

America, Discovery and Early Exploration of

(2)

America First Committee

(1)

American Civil Liberties Union

(1)

American Colonization Society

(1)

American Expeditionary Forces

(1)

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

(3)

American Indian Movement

(1)

American Labor Party

(1)

American Legion

(1)

American Party (Know-Nothings)

(1)

American Railway Union

(1)

Americans with Disabilities Act

(1)

Amistad Case

(1)

Amnesty

(1)

Anarchists

(1)

Andersonville Prison

(1)

Animal Protective Societies

(1)

Antifederalists

(1)

Anti-imperialists

(1)

Anti-Masonic Movements

(1)

Antinomian Controversy

(1)

Anti-Saloon League

(1)

Antislavery

(5)

Antitrust Laws

(1)

Antitrust Laws Since the 1960s

(1)

Apache

(1)

Apache Wars

(1)

Appalachia

(1)

Appomattox

(1)

Apprenticeship

(1)

Arab Americans

(1)

Arapaho

(1)

Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918

(1)

Arms Race with the Soviet Union

(2)

Disarmament Since SALT I

(4)

Army, Confederate

(1)

Arnold's Treason

(1)

Articles of Confederation

(1)

Article X

(1)

Asian Americans

(1)

Asian Religions and Sects

(1)

Assembly, Right of

(1)

Atlantic Charter

(1)

Atomic Bomb

(1)

Attica

(1)

Auburn Prison System

(1)

Automobile

(6)

Automobile Industry Since the 1970s

(3)

Aviation Industry

(5)

Bacon's Rebellion

(1)

Bad Lands

(1)

Bank Failures

(2)

Banking

(3)

Banking and Finance Since 1970

(2)

Bankruptcy Laws

(1)

Barbary Wars

(1)

Barnum's Museum

100

(1)

Baseball

100

(2)

Baseball Since 1970

102

(3)

Basketball

105

(2)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

107

(1)

Beirut Bombing

107

(1)

Berlin Airlift

108

(1)

Berlin Blockade

109

(1)

Bermuda Conference

109

(1)

Bicameral Legislatures

109

(1)

Bill of Rights

109

(4)

Black Codes

113

(1)

Blackfoot

113

(1)

Black Friday

114

(1)

Black Hawk War

114

(1)

Blacklisting

115

(1)

Black Panthers

115

(1)

Black Power

116

(1)

Bland-Allison Act

117

(1)

Bonus Army

117

(1)

Boomtowns

118

(1)

Bootlegging

118

(1)

Border States

119

(1)

Bosnia-Herzegovina

119

(1)

Boston Massacre

120

(1)

Boston Tea Party

121

(1)

Boxer Rebellion

121

(1)

Boycotting

121

(1)

Braddock's Expedition

122

(1)

Brady Photographs

123

(1)

Broadway

123

(1)

Brooklyn Bridge

124

(1)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

124

(1)

Budget, Federal

124

(1)

Bull Moose Party

125

(1)

Bunker Hill

125

(1)

Burr Conspiracy

126

(1)

Burr-Hamilton Duel

126

(1)

Burr Trial

127

(2)

Cabeza De Vaca, Travels of

129

(1)

Cabinet

129

(1)

Cabot Voyages

129

(1)

Cahokia

130

(1)

California Alien Land Law

130

(1)

Campaigns, Presidential

130

(17)

Campaigns, Presidential Since the 1970s

147

(3)

Canada, Relations with

150

(1)

Canals

150

(2)

Capital Punishment

152

(1)

Capital Punishment Since 1977

153

(1)

Capitalism

154

(1)

Carpetbaggers

155

(1)

Catholic Church

156

(2)

Cattle Drives

158

(1)

Cavalry, Horse

159

(1)

Centennial Exposition

160

(1)

Central Intelligence Agency

161

(2)

Central Pacific-Union Pacific Race

163

(1)

Challenger Disaster

163

(1)

Chartered Companies

164

(1)

Checks and Balances

164

(1)

Cherokee Trail

164

(1)

Cherokee Wars

165

(1)

Cheyenne

165

(1)

Chicago Fire

166

(1)

Chickasaw Treaty

167

(1)

Child Labor

167

(2)

Children's Rights

169

(1)

Chinese, U.S. Relations with

170

(1)

China Relations Since the 1970s

171

(3)

Chinese Americans

174

(2)

Chinese Exclusion Act

176

(1)

Chippewa

177

(1)

Chisholm Trail

177

(1)

Chisholm v. Georgia

178

(1)

Christina, Fort

178

(1)

Church of England in the Colonies

178

(1)

Citizenship

179

(1)

Civil Disobedience

179

(1)

Civilian Conservation Corps

180

(1)

Civil Rights and Liberties

181

(3)

Civil Rights Movement

184

(3)

Civil Rights Movement Since the 1960s

187

(3)

Civil Service

190

(1)

Civil War

191

(9)

Class Conflict

200

(1)

Clayton Antitrust Act

201

(1)

Clovis Culture

202

(1)

Coal Mining and Organized Labor

203

(1)

Coercion Acts

204

(1)

Cold War

205

(1)

Cold War Since the 1960s

206

(3)

Collective Bargaining

209

(3)

Colonial Policy, British

212

(1)

Colonial Settlements

213

(2)

Colonial Wars

215

(1)

Colt Six-Shooter

215

(1)

Columbia River Exploration and Settlement

216

(1)

Columbus Quincentenary

216

(1)

Comanche

217

(1)

Commerce, Department of

218

(1)

The DOC Since 1970

218

(1)

Committees of Correspondence

219

(1)

Common Sense

220

(1)

Communist Party, United States of America

220

(3)

Compromise of 1850

223

(1)

Computers

224

(5)

Comstock Lode

229

(1)

Confiscation Acts

229

(1)

Congress, United States

230

(3)

Congress Since the 1970s

233

(3)

Congressional Caucuses

236

(1)

Conquistadores

236

(1)

Conscientious Objectors

237

(1)

Conservation

238

(2)

Conservatism

240

(1)

Constitution

241

(1)

Constitution of the United States

241

(15)

Consumer Protection

256

(1)

Consumer Protection Since the 1970s

257

(1)

Continental Congress

258

(2)

Contraception

260

(1)

Cookery

261

(1)

Cooperatives, Farmers'

262

(1)

Copperheads

263

(1)

Coronado's Expedition

263

(1)

Corporations

264

(2)

Corruption, Political

266

(1)

Cotton

267

(3)

Cowboys

270

(1)

Coxey's Army

271

(1)

Creek War

272

(1)

Creoles

273

(1)

Crime

273

(2)

Crime Since the 1970s

275

(3)

Crime, Organized

278

(4)

Crittenden Compromise

282

(1)

``Cross of Gold'' Speech

283

(1)

Cuba, Relations with

283

(1)

Cuban Americans

283

(2)

Cuban Missile Crisis

285

(1)

Cumberland Road

286

(1)

Currier & Ives

287

(2)

Dakota

289

(1)

Dakota Territory

290

(1)

Dale's Laws of Virginia

290

(1)

Dawes General Allotment Act

290

(1)

Declaration of Independence

291

(4)

Defense, Department of

295

(2)

Deficit, Federal

297

(1)

Delaware

298

(1)

Democracy

299

(2)

Democratic Party

301

(1)

Democratic Party Since the 1960s

302

(2)

Demography

304

(1)

Demographic Changes

305

(2)

Desegregation

307

(2)

Disability Rights Movement

309

(1)

Dollar Diplomacy

310

(1)

Doughboy

311

(1)

Draft

311

(3)

The Draft Since the 1970s

314

(1)

Draft Riots

314

(1)

Dred Scott Case

314

(1)

Due Process of Law

315

(2)

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

317

(1)

Dust Bowl

318

(1)

Dutch-Indian War

318

(1)

Dutch West India Company

318

(1)

Education

319

(9)

Education in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

328

(3)

Edwardsean Theology

331

(1)

Eighteenth Amendment

331

(1)

Eisenhower Doctrine

332

(1)

Election of the President

332

(1)

Elections

333

(1)

Electoral College

334

(1)

Eleventh Amendment

335

(1)

Ellis Island

336

(1)

Emancipation Proclamation

336

(2)

Embargo Act

338

(1)

Eminent Domain

338

(1)

English Settlement

339

(1)

Environmental Movement

339

(2)

Environmental Protection Agency

341

(2)

Equal Rights Amendment

343

(1)

Erie Canal

344

(1)

Eskimo

344

(2)

Espionage Act

346

(1)

Euthanasia

346

(1)

Executive and Congress

347

(1)

Executive Orders

348

(1)

Expansion

349

(1)

Extradition

350

(1)

Exxon Valdez

350

(3)

Fair Deal

353

(1)

Fair Labor Standards Act

353

(1)

Fair-Trade Laws

354

(1)

Family

355

(2)

Recent Challenges for the Family

357

(2)

Farmers' Alliance

359

(1)

Federal-Aid Highway Program

360

(1)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

360

(1)

Federal Communications Commission

361

(1)

Federal Government

362

(2)

Federalist Party

364

(1)

Federal Reserve System

365

(3)

The Federal Reserve System Since the 1970s

368

(1)

Fifteenth Amendment

369

(1)

Filibuster, Congressional

370

(1)

Finney Revivals

371

(1)

First Lady

371

(1)

Five-Power Naval Treaty

372

(1)

Folk Art

372

(2)

Folsom Culture Complex

374

(1)

Food and Drug Administration

374

(1)

Food and Drug Administration

375

(1)

Food Stamp Program

376

(1)

Football

376

(2)

Force Acts

378

(1)

Foreign Aid

379

(2)

Forty-Niners

381

(1)

Fourteen Points

382

(1)

Fourteenth Amendment

382

(1)

Fox

383

(1)

Franchise

383

(4)

Free Blacks

387

(1)

Freedmen's Bureau

388

(1)

Freedom of Information Act

389

(1)

Freedom of the Press

390

(2)

Recent Developments Regarding Freedom of the Press

392

(1)

Freedom of Religion

393

(1)

Freedom of Speech

394

(1)

Freedom of Speech Since the 1970s

394

(1)

Freedom Riders

395

(1)

Free Soil Party

396

(1)

Free Trade

396

(2)

Fremont's Explorations

398

(1)

French and Indian War

398

(3)

Frontier

401

(1)

Fugitive Slave Acts

402

(1)

Fundamentalism

403

(1)

Fur Trade

404

(3)

Gabriel's Insurrection

407

(1)

Gadsden Purchase

407

(1)

Gag Rule, Antislavery

407

(1)

Gambling

407

(2)

Gay and Lesbian Movement

409

(1)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

410

(1)

Geneva Accords of 1954

411

(1)

Gerrymander

412

(1)

Gettysburg Address

413

(1)

Ghent, Treaty of

413

(1)

Ghost Dance

414

(1)

GI Bill of Rights

414

(1)

Gilded Age

415

(1)

Global Warming

415

(1)

Gold Standard

416

(2)

Golden Gate Bridge

418

(1)

Good Neighbor Policy

418

(1)

Grand Army of the Republic

419

(1)

Grandfather Clause

420

(1)

Granger Movement

420

(1)

Great Awakening

421

(1)

Great Migration

422

(1)

Great Plains

423

(1)

Great Society

424

(1)

Greenback Movement

424

(1)

Green Mountain Boys

425

(1)

Grenada Invasion

425

(1)

Guadalcanal

426

(1)

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of

427

(1)

Guerrillas

427

(1)

Gulf War of 1991

428

(3)

Gun Control

431

(1)

Gunboats

431

(2)

Habeas Corpus, Writ of

433

(1)

Half Moon

434

(1)

Halfway Covenant

434

(1)

Hamilton's Fiscal Policies

434

(2)

Handsome Lake Cult

436

(1)

Hartford Convention

436

(1)

Harvard University

437

(1)

Haymarket Riot

438

(1)

Health Care

439

(2)

Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of

441

(1)

Health and Human Service, Department of

442

(1)

Health Maintenance Organizations

442

(1)

Hispanic Americans

443

(1)

Hiss Case

444

(1)

Home Rule

445

(1)

Homestead Movement

445

(1)

Homestead Strike of 1892

446

(1)

Hookworm

446

(1)

Hopewell

447

(1)

Hopi

447

(1)

Hostage Crises

448

(1)

House Committee on Un-American Activities

449

(1)

Housing

450

(1)

Housing in the Late Twentieth Century

451

(1)

Housing and Urban Development, Department of

452

(1)

Hudson River

453

(1)

Hudson's Bay Company

454

(1)

Huguenots

455

(1)

Human Rights

455

(1)

Human Rights During the Late Twentieth Century

456

(2)

Hydrogen Bomb

458

(1)

Immigration

459

(8)

Recent Trends in Immigration

467

(4)

Immigration Restriction

471

(1)

Impeachment

472

(2)

Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson

474

(1)

Imperialism

475

(1)

Impressment of Seamen

476

(1)

Income Tax Cases

477

(1)

Indentured Servants

478

(1)

Indian Affairs, Bureau of

479

(1)

Indian Land Cessions

480

(3)

Indian Policy, Colonial

483

(1)

Indian Policy, National

484

(2)

Indian Removal

486

(2)

Indian Territory

488

(1)

Industrial Revolution

488

(2)

Industrial Workers of the World

490

(1)

Inflation

491

(2)

Influenza

493

(1)

Interior, Department of the

494

(1)

Interstate Commerce Commission

495

(1)

Interstate Commerce Laws

496

(1)

Intolerable Acts

497

(1)

Iran-Contra Affair

497

(1)

Irish Americans

498

(1)

Ironclad Warships

499

(1)

Iroquois

500

(1)

Iroquois Treaty

501

(1)

Islam

501

(1)

Isolationism

502

(1)

Israel-Palestine Peace Accord

503

(1)

Italian Americans

504

(3)

Jacksonian Democracy

507

(1)

Jamestown

508

(1)

Japanese Americans

509

(1)

Japanese Exclusion Acts

510

(1)

Jay's Treaty

511

(1)

Jefferson-Burr Electoral Dispute

512

(1)

Jeffersonian Democracy

513

(1)

Jehovah's Witnesses

514

(1)

Jesuits

514

(1)

Jews, American

515

(1)

Jim Crow Laws

516

(1)

Jingoism

516

(1)

John Birch Society

517

(1)

Johnson Doctrine

517

(1)

Joint-Stock Land Banks

517

(1)

Jolliet and Marquette Discovery

518

(1)

Jonestown Massacre

518

(1)

Judicial Review

519

(2)

Judiciary

521

(5)

Jury Trial

526

(1)

Justice, Department of

527

(1)

Justice, Department of

528

(1)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

529

(2)

Kellogg-Briand Pact

531

(1)

Kennedy, John F., Assassination

531

(1)

Kent State Protest

531

(1)

King, Martin Luther, Assassination

532

(1)

King George's War

533

(1)

King Philip's War

533

(2)

King William's War

535

(1)

Kinsey Report

535

(1)

Klondike Rush

536

(1)

Knights of Labor

536

(1)

Korean Americans

537

(1)

Korean War

537

(2)

Ku Klux Klan

539

(4)

La Salle, Explorations of

543

(1)

Labor, Department of

543

(1)

Labor Parties

544

(1)

Labor Unions

545

(2)

Laissez-Faire

547

(1)

Land Policy

547

(1)

Latin America, Relations with

548

(3)

Latin American Policy Since 1970

551

(2)

Latter-Day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of

553

(1)

Mormonism Since World War II

554

(1)

League of Nations

555

(2)

League of Women Voters of the United States

557

(1)

Lecompton Constitution

557

(1)

Legal Tender

558

(1)

Legal Tender Act

558

(1)

Legislature

559

(1)

Lend-Lease

559

(1)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

560

(1)

Lexington and Concord

561

(1)

Liberal Republican Party

562

(1)

Liberalism

562

(1)

Liberalism Since the New Deal

563

(1)

Liberty Loans

563

(1)

Liberty Party

564

(1)

Libraries

564

(2)

Libraries in the Late Twentieth Century

566

(1)

Library of Congress

566

(2)

Library of Congress Since 1976

568

(1)

Lincoln, Assassination of

569

(1)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

570

(1)

Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

571

(1)

Lindbergh's Atlantic Flight

571

(1)

Literacy Test

572

(1)

Literature

572

(5)

Literature Since 1970

577

(4)

Lobbies

581

(1)

Local Government

581

(3)

Log Cabin

584

(1)

Long Drive

584

(1)

Long, Huey, Assassination

584

(1)

Los Angeles Riots

584

(1)

Lost Generation

585

(1)

Louisiana Purchase

585

(2)

Loyalists

587

(1)

Loyalty Oaths

588

(1)

Lusitania, Sinking of the

589

(1)

Lynching

589

(2)

Magazines

591

(1)

Magazines Since World War II

592

(1)

Maine, Destruction of the

592

(1)

Majority Rule

593

(1)

Malaria

593

(1)

Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara

594

(1)

Manhattan Project

595

(2)

``Manifest Destiny''

597

(1)

Mann Act

597

(1)

Manufacturing

597

(3)

Marbury v. Madison

600

(1)

Marriage and Divorce

601

(1)

Marshall Plan

602

(1)

Martial Law

603

(1)

Mason-Dixon Line

604

(1)

Massachusetts Bay Company

605

(1)

Mayflower

606

(1)

Mayflower Compact

607

(1)

Maysville Veto

607

(1)

McCarran-Walter Act

607

(1)

McCarthy-Army Hearings

608

(1)

McCormick Reaper

609

(1)

McCulloch v. Maryland

609

(1)

McGuffey's Readers

610

(1)

Meat Inspection Laws

610

(1)

Medicare and Medicaid

610

(2)

Medicine and Surgery

612

(4)

Medicine in the Late Twentieth Century

616

(2)

Mennonites

618

(1)

Mental Illness, Treatment of

618

(4)

Mercantilism

622

(1)

Methodists

623

(1)

Mexican Americans

624

(1)

Mexican War

625

(2)

Mexico, Gulf of

627

(1)

Mexico, Punitive Expedition into

627

(1)

Mexico, Relations with

628

(1)

Mexican Relations in the Late Twentieth Century

629

(1)

Middle East, Relations with

630

(3)

Middle Passage

633

(1)

Midnight Judges

633

(1)

Midway Islands

633

(1)

Migration, Group

634

(1)

Minimum-Wage Legislation

635

(2)

Minority Rights

637

(1)

Mint, Federal

638

(1)

Minutemen

638

(1)

Miranda v. Arizona

639

(1)

Miscegenation

639

(1)

Missions, Foreign

640

(1)

Missions, Frontier

640

(1)

Mississippian Cultures

641

(1)

Mississippi Valley

641

(1)

Missouri Compromise

642

(1)

Mobilization

643

(1)

Modoc War

644

(1)

Mohave

645

(1)

Molasses Act

645

(1)

Molly Maguires

646

(1)

Money

646

(4)

Monopoly

650

(1)

Monroe Doctrine

651

(2)

Montgomery Convention

653

(1)

Monticello

654

(1)

Montreal, Capture of

654

(1)

Moon Landing

655

(1)

Mormon Trail

656

(1)

Morrill Act

656

(1)

Most-Favored-Nation Principle

656

(1)

Mounds and Mound Builders

656

(2)

Mountain Men

658

(1)

Movies

658

(4)

Muckrakers

662

(1)

Mugwumps

662

(1)

Multiculturalism

663

(1)

Municipal Reform

663

(1)

Museums

664

(2)

Music, Classical

666

(1)

Music, Country and Western

667

(1)

Music, Jazz

668

(1)

Music, Rock and Roll

669

(1)

Music Television

669

(1)

Mutiny

670

(1)

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

671

(1)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

671

(2)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

673

(1)

Naacp Since 1975

674

(1)

National Institutes of Health

674

(1)

Nih in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s

675

(1)

National Labor Relations Act

676

(1)

National Recovery Administration

677

(1)

National Republican Party

677

(1)

National Rifle Association

678

(1)

National Road

678

(1)

National Urban League

678

(1)

Native Americans

679

(2)

Nativism

681

(1)

Nat Turner's Rebellion

682

(1)

Naturalization

683

(1)

Navaho

684

(2)

Navigation Acts

686

(1)

Navy, United States

687

(10)

Neutrality

697

(3)

New Amsterdam

700

(1)

New Deal

701

(6)

New England

707

(1)

``New England Way''

708

(1)

New France

709

(1)

New Freedom

709

(1)

New Frontier

709

(1)

New Harmony Settlement

710

(1)

New Nationalism

710

(1)

New Netherland

710

(2)

New Plymouth Colony

712

(1)

New South

713

(2)

Newspapers

715

(12)

Newspapers Since the 1950s

727

(1)

Nez Perce War

728

(1)

Niagara Movement

728

(1)

Nineteenth Amendment

729

(1)

Nixon, Resignation of

729

(1)

North American Free Trade Agreement

730

(2)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

732

(1)

Northwest Passage

733

(1)

Northwest Territory

734

(1)

Nuclear Power

734

(2)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

736

(1)

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

736

(1)

Nullification

737

(1)

Nursing

738

(2)

Nursing Since the 1960s

740

(1)

Oil Crises

741

(1)

Oklahoma City Bombing

741

(1)

Oklahoma Squatters

742

(1)

``Old Hickory''

742

(1)

Old Northwest

742

(1)

Olive Branch Petition

743

(1)

Oneida Colony

743

(1)

Open Door Policy

744

(1)

Opinion Polls

745

(1)

Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787

746

(1)

Oregon Missions

747

(1)

Oregon Trail

747

(2)

Oregon Treaty of 1846

749

(1)

Organization of American States

749

(2)

Pacifism

751

(1)

Panama Canal Treaty

752

(1)

Panama, Declaration of

753

(1)

Panama Invasion

753

(1)

Panic of 1837

754

(1)

Panic of 1893

754

(1)

Panic of 1929

755

(1)

Paris, Treaty of (1763)

756

(1)

Paris, Peace of (1783)

757

(1)

Paris, Treaty of (1898)

757

(1)

Parks, National, and National Monuments

758

(2)

Parks, National

760

(1)

Patents and U.S. Patent Office

761

(1)

Patroons

762

(1)

Pawnee

763

(1)

Peace Corps

763

(1)

Peace Movements

764

(2)

Peace Movements Since the 1970s

766

(1)

Pearl Harbor

767

(2)

Pendleton Act

769

(1)

Pennsylvania Germans

769

(1)

Pentagon Papers

769

(2)

Pequot War

771

(1)

Perry's Expedition to Japan

771

(1)

Petition, Right of

772

(1)

Philadelphia Riots

773

(1)

Phonograph

773

(2)

Photographic Industry

775

(1)

Photography

776

(2)

Piedmont Region

778

(1)

Pikes Peak

778

(1)

Pike's Southwestern Expedition

778

(1)

Pike's Upper Mississippi Expedition

779

(1)

Pilgrims

779

(1)

Pioneers

780

(2)

Piracy

782

(1)

Plank Roads

782

(1)

Plantation System of the South

783

(1)

Plastics

784

(1)

Platt Amendment

785

(1)

Pledge of Allegiance

786

(1)

Plessy v. Ferguson

786

(1)

Pocket Veto

786

(1)

Polar Exploration

787

(2)

Police

789

(1)

Police Since the Early 1970s

790

(1)

Polish Americans

791

(1)

Political Action Committees

792

(1)

Political Cartoons

793

(1)

Polk Doctrine

794

(1)

Poll Tax

794

(1)

Polygamy

795

(1)

Ponce De Le on's Discovery

795

(1)

Pontiac's War

795

(1)

Pony Express

796

(1)

Poor Richard's Almanac

797

(1)

Popular Sovereignty

797

(1)

Populism

798

(2)

Postal Service, United States

800

(1)

Potomac River

800

(1)

Potsdam Conference

801

(1)

Poverty

801

(1)

Powell's Explorations

802

(1)

Powhatan Confederacy

802

(1)

Presbyterianism

803

(1)

Preservation Movement

804

(1)

President

805

(2)

Presidency

807

(3)

Presidential Succession

810

(1)

Price-Fixing

810

(1)

Primary, Direct

811

(1)

Printing Press, Early American

812

(1)

Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

812

(1)

Privateers and Privateering

813

(1)

Proclamation of 1763

814

(1)

Progressive Movement

815

(2)

Progressive Party

817

(1)

Prohibition

817

(2)

Prohibition Party

819

(1)

Property Qualifications

819

(1)

Prospectors

819

(1)

Protestantism

820

(2)

Public Domain

822

(3)

Public Land Commissions

825

(1)

Public Opinion

826

(2)

Pueblo Revolt

828

(1)

Puerto Rican Americans

828

(1)

Pullman Strike

829

(1)

Punishment, Cruel and Unusual

830

(1)

Puritans and Puritanism

830

(3)

Quakers

833

(1)

Quartering Act

834

(1)

Queen Anne's War

835

(2)

Radical Republicans

837

(1)

Radicals and Radicalism

838

(1)

Radio

839

(2)

Railroads

841

(14)

Railroad Strike of 1877

855

(1)

Railroad Strikes of 1886

855

(1)

Raleigh's Lost Colony

855

(1)

Raleigh's Patent and First Colony

856

(1)

Reaganomics

857

(1)

Reciprocal Trade Agreements

857

(2)

Reconstruction

859

(3)

Reconstruction Acts

862

(1)

Red River Indian War

863

(1)

Referendum

863

(1)

Reformed Churches

864

(1)

Registration of Voters

864

(1)

Regulators

865

(1)

Religious Liberty

865

(1)

Removal Act of 1830

866

(1)

Reparation Commission

866

(1)

Representation

867

(1)

Representative Government

868

(1)

Republican Party

869

(1)

Republican Party from 1968 until Present Day

870

(3)

Reservation System, Termination of

873

(1)

Reserved Powers of States

873

(1)

Reserved Powers of the People

874

(1)

Resettlement Administration

875

(1)

Resolution, Legislative

875

(1)

Revenue, Public

875

(1)

Revolution, American

876

(13)

Revolutionary War, American Army in the

889

(2)

Revolutionary War, British Army in the

891

(1)

Revolutionary War, Foreign Volunteers in

892

(1)

Riots

892

(2)

Roanoke Island, Capture of

894

(1)

Robber Barons

894

(1)

Rockefeller Foundation

895

(1)

Rocky Mountains

895

(1)

Roe v. Wade

896

(1)

Rosenburg Case

897

(1)

Rough Riders

897

(2)

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

899

(1)

Sand Creek Massacre

899

(1)

Sauk Prairie

900

(1)

Savings and Loan Crisis

900

(1)

Scab

901

(1)

Scalawag

902

(1)

Scopes Trial

902

(1)

Scotch-Irish

903

(1)

Scottsboro Case

904

(1)

Search and Seizure, Unreasonable

904

(1)

Secession, Ordinance of

905

(1)

Secession, Right of

905

(1)

Secession of Southern States

906

(1)

Secret Service, United States

907

(1)

Secret Societies

908

(1)

Sectionalism

908

(2)

Sedition Acts

910

(1)

Segregation

910

(2)

Seminole

912

(1)

Seminole Wars

913

(1)

Seventeenth Amendment

914

(1)

Shakers

914

(1)

Sharecropper

915

(1)

Shawnee

916

(1)

Shawnee and Delaware Migration

916

(1)

Shays's Rebellion

916

(1)

Shenandoah Valley

917

(1)

Sherman Antitrust Act

918

(1)

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

918

(1)

Shipbuilding

919

(1)

Shipping Act of 1916

920

(1)

Silver Democrats

920

(1)

Silver Prospecting and Mining

921

(1)

Sioux Wars

921

(1)

Sixteenth Amendment

922

(1)

Skyscrapers

922

(1)

Slave Insurrections

923

(1)

Slavery

924

(5)

Slave States

929

(1)

Slave Trade

929

(3)

Slums

932

(1)

Smallpox

933

(2)

Smith Act

935

(1)

Smith Explorations

935

(1)

Social Gospel

935

(1)

Socialist Movement

936

(1)

Socialist Party of America

937

(1)

Social Security

938

(1)

Social Work

939

(1)

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

940

(1)

Soldiers and Sailors Conventions

940

(1)

Sons of Liberty (American Revolution)

940

(1)

Sons of Liberty (Civil War)

941

(1)

Sooners

941

(1)

South, Antebellum

941

(3)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

944

(1)

South Pass

944

(1)

Space Program

945

(2)

Spanish-American War

947

(2)

Speaker of the House of Representatives

949

(1)

Specie Payments, Suspension and Resumption of

950

(2)

Spies

952

(2)

Spoils System

954

(1)

``Square Deal''

955

(1)

Stamp Act

955

(1)

Stamp Act Congress

956

(1)

Standard Oil Company

956

(1)

``Star-Spangled Banner''

957

(1)

Starving Time

958

(1)

State Constitutions

958

(2)

State, Department of

960

(2)

States' Rights

962

(1)

Statue of Liberty

963

(1)

Steamboats

963

(1)

Steam Power and Engines

964

(1)

Steel Strikes

965

(1)

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt)

966

(1)

Strategic Defense Initiative (Sdi)

967

(1)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

968

(1)

Subways

968

(1)

Suffrage, Exclusion from the

969

(1)

Sugar Acts

970

(1)

Sugar Industry

971

(1)

Summit Conferences, Presidential

971

(2)

Sumter, Fort

973

(1)

Supreme Court

973

(2)

Supreme Court After the Warren Court

975

(2)

Sweatshop

977

(2)

Taft-Hartley Act

979

(1)

Tammany Hall

980

(1)

Tariff

981

(11)

Taxation

992

(11)

Teapot Dome Oil Scandal

1003

(1)

Telecommunications

1004

(1)

Telegraph

1005

(1)

Telephone

1006

(1)

Television

1007

(1)

Television at the End of the Twentieth Century

1008

(1)

Teller Amendment

1009

(1)

Temperance Movement

1010

(1)

Tenements

1011

(1)

Ten-Forties

1012

(1)

Tennessee Valley Authority

1012

(1)

Tenure of Office Act

1013

(1)

Territories of the United States

1014

(1)

Terrorism

1015

(1)

Texas v. White

1016

(1)

Textiles

1016

(3)

Thanksgiving Day

1019

(1)

Theater

1020

(4)

Theater Since the 1960s

1024

(1)

Third Parties

1025

(1)

Third Parties and Independents

1026

(1)

Thirteenth Amendment

1027

(1)

Three Mile Island

1028

(1)

Tidewater

1028

(1)

Titanic, Sinking of the

1029

(1)

Tobacco Industry

1029

(1)

Tobacco Industry Since the 1970s

1030

(2)

Toleration Acts

1032

(1)

Tom Thumb

1033

(1)

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

1033

(1)

Torpedo Warfare

1033

(1)

Townshend Acts

1034

(1)

Trading Posts, Frontier

1035

(1)

Trail of Tears

1036

(1)

Train Robberies

1036

(1)

Transcendentalism

1036

(1)

Transportation, Department of

1037

(1)

Trapping

1038

(1)

Treason

1039

(1)

Treasury, United States

1039

(1)

Treasury, Department of the

1040

(1)

Treaties with Foreign Nations

1041

(3)

Trespass Act

1044

(1)

Triangular Trade

1045

(1)

Truman Doctrine

1046

(1)

``Trust-Busting''

1046

(1)

Trusts

1046

(3)

Tuberculosis

1049

(2)

Tuscarora War

1051

(1)

Tuskegee Institute

1051

(1)

Tweed Ring

1051

(1)

Twelfth Amendment

1052

(1)

Twenty-First Amendment

1053

(1)

Twenty-Second Amendment

1053

(1)

Twenty-Third Amendment

1053

(1)

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

1053

(1)

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

1053

(1)

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

1054

(1)

Two-Party System

1054

(1)

Two-Thirds Rule

1055

(2)

``Uncle Sam''

1057

(1)

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly

1057

(1)

Underground Railroad

1057

(1)

Unicameral Legislatures

1058

(1)

Union Pacific Railroad

1059

(1)

Union Party

1060

(1)

United Mine Workers of America

1060

(1)

United Nations

1060

(4)

United States of America

1064

(1)

United States v. Knight Company

1064

(1)

Urban Living

1064

(3)

Vaudeville

1067

(1)

Veracruz Incident

1067

(1)

Versailles, Treaty of

1068

(1)

Vesey Rebellion

1069

(1)

Veterans Affairs, Department of

1069

(1)

Veto Power of the President

1069

(1)

Vice Presidency

1070

(1)

Vice Presidency at the End of the Twentieth Century

1071

(1)

Vietnam War

1072

(3)

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

1075

(1)

Virginia Company of London

1075

(2)

Virginia Declaration of Rights

1077

(1)

Virginia Resolves

1077

(1)

Volstead Act

1077

(1)

Volunteerism

1078

(1)

Voting

1078

(1)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

1079

(2)

Waco Siege

1081

(1)

Wade-Davis Bill

1081

(1)

Wagon Trains

1081

(2)

Wall Street

1083

(1)

Wall Street Since the 1970s

1084

(2)

Wampum

1086

(1)

Wappinger Confederacy

1087

(1)

War Crimes Trials

1087

(1)

War, Declaration of

1087

(1)

War Department

1088

(1)

War Finance Corporation

1089

(1)

War Hawks

1090

(1)

War Industries Board

1090

(1)

War Labor Board

1090

(1)

War of 1812

1091

(3)

War Opposition Organizations

1094

(1)

War Powers Act

1095

(1)

Warren Commission

1096

(1)

Warships

1096

(4)

Washington Naval Conference

1100

(1)

Washington's Farewell Address

1101

(1)

Watergate, Aftermath of

1101

(2)

Welfare

1103

(1)

Wells, Fargo and Company

1104

(1)

Western Exploration

1105

(2)

Western Union Telegraph Company

1107

(1)

Westward Movement

1107

(3)

Wheat

1110

(1)

Whig Party

1111

(1)

Whiskey

1111

(1)

Whiskey Rebellion

1112

(1)

White House

1113

(1)

White Supremacists

1114

(1)

``Wigwam''

1114

(1)

Wildcat Money

1114

(1)

Wildcat Oil Drilling

1114

(1)

Wilderness Road

1115

(1)

Wildlife Preservation

1115

(2)

Wilmot Proviso

1117

(1)

Winnebago

1117

(1)

Witchcraft

1118

(1)

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

1119

(1)

Woman's Party, National

1120

(1)

Woman's Rights Movement

1120

(2)

Women's Movement Since the 1970s

1122

(3)

Woodstock

1125

(1)

Works Progress Administration

1125

(2)

World War I

1127

(3)

World War II

1130

(7)

World's Fairs

1137

(1)

Writs of Assistance

1138

(1)

Xyz Affair

1139

(2)

Yalta Conference

1141

(1)

Yankee

1141

(1)

``Yellow-Dog'' Contract

1142

(1)

Yellow Fever

1142

(1)

Yellow Journalism

1143

(1)

Yellowstone National Park

1143

(1)

Yosemite National Park

1144

(1)

Yurok

1145

(2)

Zenger Trial

1147

(1)

Zimmerman Telegram

1147

(2)

Index

1149

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