Part 7 — INDEX
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Abolition, 318, 331 Adams, Abigail, 556 Adams, John, 97, 128, 179f. Adams, J.Q., 247, 319 Adams, Samuel, 90, 99, 108 Adamson law, 590 Aguinaldo, 497 Alabama, admission, 227 Alabama claims, 480 Alamance, battle, 92 Alamo, 280 Alaska, purchase, 479 Albany, plan of union, 62 Algonquins, 57 Alien law, 180 Amendment, method of, 156 Amendments to federal Constitution: first eleven, 163 twelfth, 184 note thirteenth, 358 fourteenth, 366, 369, 387 fifteenth, 358 sixteenth, 528 seventeenth, 542 eighteenth, 591 nineteenth, 563f. American expeditionary force, 610 American Federation of Labor, 573, 608 Americanization, 585 Amnesty, for Confederates, 383 Andros, 65 Annapolis, convention, 144 Antietam, 357 Anti-Federalists, 169 Anti-slavery. See Abolition Anthony, Susan, 564 Appomattox, 363 Arbitration: international, 480 514, 617 labor disputes, 582 Arizona, admission, 443 Arkansas, admission, 272 Arnold, Benedict, 114, 120 Articles of Confederation, 110, 139ff., 146 Ashburton, treaty, 265 Assembly, colonial, 49f., 89f. Assumption, 164f. Atlanta, 361 Australian ballot, 540 Bacon, Nathaniel, 58 Ballot: Australian, 540 short, 544 Baltimore, Lord, 6 Bank: first U.S., 167 second, 203, 257ff. Banking system: state, 300 U.S. national, 369 services of, 407 See also Federal reserve Barry, John, 118 Bastille, 172 Bell, John, 341 Belleau Wood, 611 Berlin decree, 194 Blockade: by England and France, 193f. Southern ports, 353 law and practice in 1914, 598f. Bond servants, 13f. Boone, Daniel, 28, 218 Boston: massacre, 91 evacuation, 116 port bill, 94 Bowdoin, Governor, 142 Boxer rebellion, 499 Brandywine, 129 Breckinridge, J.C., 340 Bright, John, 355 Brown, John, 338 Brown University, 45 Bryan, W.J., 468f., 495, 502, 503, 527 Buchanan, James, 335, 368 Budget system, 529 Bull Run, 350 Bunker Hill, 102 Burgoyne, General, 116, 118, 130 Burke, Edmund, 87, 96ff., 132, 175 Burr, Aaron, 183, 231 Business. See Industry Calhoun, J.C., 198f., 203, 208, 281, 321, 328 California, 286f. Canada, 61, 114, 530 Canals, 233, 298, 508 Canning, British premier, 206 Cannon, J.G., 530 Cantigny, 611 Caribbean, 479 Carpet baggers, 373 Cattle ranger, 431f. Caucus, 245 Censorship. See Newspapers Charles I, 3 Charles II, 65 Charleston, 36, 116 Charters, colonial, 2ff., 41 Chase, Justice, 187 Château-Thierry, 611 Checks and balances, 153 Chesapeake, the, 195 Chickamauga, 361 Child labor law, 591 China, 447, 499ff. Chinese labor, 583 Churches, colonial, 39f., 42, 43 Cities, 35, 36, 300f., 395, 410, 544 City manager plan, 545 Civil liberty, 358f., 561 Civil service, 419, 536, 538f. Clarendon, Lord, 6 Clark, G.R., 116, 218 Clay, Henry, 198, 203, 248, 261, 328 Clayton anti-trust act, 489 Clergy. See Churches Cleveland, Grover, 421, 465, 482, 484, 489, 582 Clinton, Sir Henry, 119 Colorado, admission, 441 Combination. See Trusts Commerce, colonial, 33f. disorders after 1781, 140 Constitutional provisions on, 154 Napoleonic wars, 176, 193ff. domestic growth of, 307 congressional regulation of, 460f., 547 See also Trusts and Railways Commission government, 544 Committees of correspondence, 108 Commonsense, pamphlet, 103 Communism, colonial, 20. Company, trading, 2f. Compromises: of Constitution, 148, 150, 151 Missouri, 325, 332 of 1850, 328f. Crittenden, 350 Conciliation, with England, 131 Concord, battle, 100 Confederacy, Southern, 346f. Confederation: New England, 61. See also Articles of Congregation, religious, 4 Congress: stamp act, 85 continental, 99f. under Articles, 139. under Constitution, 152 powers of, 153 Connecticut: founded, 4ff. self-government, 49 See also Suffrage, constitutions, state Conservation, 523f. Constitution: formation of, 143f. See also Amendment Constitution, the, 200 Constitutions, state, 109f., 238f., 385f. Constitutional union party, 340 Contract labor law, 584 Convention: 1787, 144f. nominating, 405 Convicts, colonial, 15 Conway Cabal, 120 Cornwallis, General, 116, 119, 131 Corporation and labor, 571 See also Trusts Cotton. See Planting system Cowboy, 431f. Cowpens, battle, 116 Cox, J.M., 619 Crisis, The, pamphlet, 115 Crittenden Compromise, 350 Cuba, 485f., 518 Cumberland Gap, 223 Currency. See Banking Danish West Indies, purchased, 593 Dartmouth College, 45 Daughters of liberty, 84 Davis, Jefferson, 346f. Deane, Silas, 128 Debs, E.V., 465, 534 Debt, national, 164f. Decatur, Commodore, 477 Declaration of Independence, 101f. Defense, national, 154 De Kalb, 121 Delaware, 3, 49 De Lome affair, 490 Democratic party, name assumed, 260 See also Anti-Federalists Dewey, Admiral, 492 Diplomacy: of the Revolution, 127f. Civil War, 354 Domestic industry, 28 Donelson, Fort, 361 Dorr Rebellion, 243 Douglas, Stephen A., 333, 337, 368 Draft: Civil War, 351 World War, 605 Draft riots, 351 Dred Scott case, 335, 338 Drug act, 523 Duquesne, Fort, 60 Dutch, 3, 12 East India Company, 93 Education, 43f., 557, 591 Electors, popular election of, 245 Elkins law, 547 Emancipation, 357f. Embargo acts, 186f. England: Colonial policy of, 64f. Revolutionary War, 99f. Jay treaty, 177 War of 1812, 198f. Monroe Doctrine, 206 Ashburton treaty, 265 Civil War, 354 Alabama claims, 480 Samoa, 481 Venezuela question, 482 Spanish War, 496 World War, 596f. Erie Canal, 233 Esch-Cummins bill, 582 Espionage act, 607 Excess profits tax, 606 Executive, federal, plans for, 151 Expunging resolution, 260 Farm loan act, 589 Federal reserve act, 589 Federal trade commission, 590 Federalist, the, 158 Federalists, 168f., 201f. Feudal elements in colonies, 21. Filipino revolt. See Philippines Fillmore, President, 485 Finances: colonial, 64 revolutionary, 125f. disorders, 140 Civil War, 347, 352ff. World War, 606 See also Banking Fishing industry, 31 Fleet, world tour, 515 Florida, 134, 204 Foch, General, 611 Food and fuel law, 607 Force bills, 384ff., 375 Forests, national, 525f. Fourteen points, 605 Fox, C.J., 132 France: colonization, 59f. French and Indian War, 60f. American Revolution, 116, 123, 128f. French Revolution, 165f. Quarrel with, 180 Napoleonic wars, 193f. Louisiana purchase, 190 French Revolution of 1830, 266 Civil War, 354 Mexican affair, 478 World War, 596f. Franchises, utility, 548 Franklin, Benjamin, 45, 62, 82, 86, 128, 134 Freedmen. See Negro Freehold. See Land Free-soil party, 319 Frémont, J.C., 288, 334 French. See France Friends, the, 5 Frontier. See Land Fugitive slave act, 329 Fulton, Robert, 231, 234 Fundamental articles, 5 Fundamental orders, 5 Gage, General, 95, 100 Garfield, President, 416 Garrison, William Lloyd, 318 Gaspee, the, 92 Gates, General, 116, 120, 131 Genêt, 177 George I, 66 George II, 4, 66, 82 George III, 77f. Georgia: founded, 4 royal province, 49 state constitution, 109 See also Secession Germans: colonial immigration, 9ff. in Revolutionary War, 102f. later immigration, 303 Germany: Samoa, 481 Venezuela affair, 512 World War, 596 Gerry, Elbridge, 148 Gettysburg, 362 Gibbon, Edward, 133 Gold: discovery, 288 standard, 466, 472 Gompers, Samuel, 573, 608 Governor, royal, 49f. Grandfather clause, 386. Grangers, 460f. Grant, General, 361, 416, 480, 487 Great Britain. See England Greeley, Horace, 420 Greenbacks, 454f. Greenbackers, 462f. Greene, General, 117, 120 Grenville, 79f. Guilford, battle, 117 Habeas corpus, 358 Hague conferences, 514 Haiti, 593 Hamilton, Alexander, 95, 143, 158, 162, 168f., 231 Harding, W.G., 389, 619 Harlem Heights, battle, 114 Harper's Ferry, 339 Harrison, Benjamin, 422, 484 Harrison, W.H., 198, 263f. Hartford convention, 201f., 238 Harvard, 44 Hawaii, 484. Hay, John, 477, 500ff. Hayne, Robert, 256 Hays, President, 416. Henry, Patrick, 85 Hepburn act, 523 Hill, James J., 429 Holland, 130 Holy Alliance, 205 Homestead act, 368, 432 Hooker, Thomas, 5 Houston, Sam, 279f. Howe, General, 118 Hughes, Charles E., 602 Huguenots, 10 Hume, David, 132 Hutchinson, Anne, 5 Idaho, admission, 442 Income tax, 459, 466, 528, 588, 606 Inheritance tax, 606 Illinois, admission, 226 Illiteracy, 585 Immigration: colonial, 1-17 before Civil War, 302, 367 after Civil War, 410f. problems of, 582f. Imperialism, 494f., 498., 502f. Implied powers, 212 Impressment of seamen, 194 Indentured servants, 13. Independence, Declaration of, 107 Indiana, admission, 226 Indians, 57f., 81, 431 Industry: colonial, 28f. growth of, 296f. during Civil War, 366 after 1865, 390f., 401f., 436f., 559 See also Trusts Initiative, the, 543 Injunction, 465, 580 Internal improvements, 260, 368 Interstate commerce act, 461, 529 Intolerable acts, 93 Invisible government, 537 Iowa, admission, 275 Irish, 11, 302 Iron. See Industry Irrigation, 434f., 523f. Jackson, Andrew, 201, 204, 246, 280 Jacobins, 174 James I, 3 James II, 65 Jamestown, 3, 21 Japan, relations with, 447, 511, 583 Jay, John, 128, 158, 177 Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration of Independence, 107 Secretary of State, 162f. political leader, 169 as President, 183f. Monroe Doctrine, 206, 231 Jews, migration of, 11 Johnson, Andrew, 365, 368, 371. Johnson, Samuel, 132 Joliet, 59 Jones, John Paul, 118 Judiciary: British system, 67 federal, 152 Kansas, admission, 441 Kansas-Nebraska bill, 333 Kentucky: admission, 224 Resolutions, 182 King George's War, 59 King Philip's War, 57 King William's War, 59 King's College (Columbia), 45 Knights of Labor, 575f. Kosciusko, 121 Ku Klux Klan, 382 Labor: rise of organized, 304 parties, 462f. question, 521 American Federation, 573f. legislation, 590 World War, 608f. Lafayette, 121 La Follette, Senator, 531 Land: tenure20f. sales restricted, 80 Western survey, 219 federal sales policy, 220 Western tenure, 228 disappearance of free, 445 new problems, 449 See also Homestead act La Salle, 59 Lawrence, Captain, 200 League of Nations, 616f. Le Bœuf, Fort, 59 Lee, General Charles, 131 Lee, R.E., 357 Lewis and Clark expedition, 193 Lexington, battle, 100 Liberal Republicans, 420 Liberty loan, 606 Lincoln: Mexican War, 282 Douglas debates, 336. election, 341 Civil War, 344f. reconstruction, 371 Literacy test, 585 Livingston, R.R., 191 Locke, John, 95 London Company, 3 Long Island, battle, 114 Lords of trade, 67f. Louis XVI, 171f. Louisiana: ceded to Spain, 61 purchase, 190f. admission, 227 Loyalists, See Tories Lusitania, the, 601f. McClellan, General, 362, 365 McCulloch vs. Maryland, 211 McKinley, William, 422, 467ff., 489f. Macaulay, Catherine, 132 Madison, James, 158, 197ff. Maine, 325 Maine, the, 490 Manila Bay, battle, 492 Manors, colonial, 22 Manufactures, See Industry Marbury vs. Madison, 209 Marietta, 220 Marion, Francis, 117, 120 Marquette, 59 Marshall, John, 208f. Martineau, Harriet, 267 Maryland, founded, 6, 49, 109, 239, 242 Massachusetts: founded, 3ff. See also Immigration, Royal province, Industry, Revolutionary War, Constitutions, state, Suffrage, Commerce, and Industry Massachusetts Bay Company, 3 founded, 3ff. See also Immigration, Royal province Mayflower compact, 4 Mercantile theory, 69 Merchants. See Commerce Merrimac, the, 353 Meuse-Argonne, battle, 612 Mexico: and Texas, 278f. later relations, 594. Michigan, admission, 273 Midnight appointees, 187 Milan Decree, 194 Militia, Revolutionary War, 122 Minimum wages, 551 Minnesota, admission, 275 Mississippi River, and West, 189. Missouri Compromise, 207, 227, 271, 325, 332 Molasses act, 71 Money, paper, 80, 126, 155, 369 Monitor, the, 353 Monroe, James, 204f., 191 Monroe Doctrine, 205, 512 Montana, admission, 442 Montgomery, General, 114 Morris, Robert, 127 Mothers' pensions, 551 Mohawks, 57 Muckraking, 536. Mugwumps, 420 Municipal ownership, 549 Napoleon I, 190 Napoleon III: Civil War, 354. Mexico, 477 National Labor Union, 574 National road, 232 Nationalism, colonial, 56f. Natural rights, 95 Navigation acts, 69 Navy: in Revolution, 188 War of 1812, 195 Civil War, 353 World War, 610 See also Sea Power Nebraska, admission, 441 Negro: Civil rights, 370f. in agriculture, 393f. status of, 396ff. See also Slavery New England: colonial times, 6ff., 35, 40ff. See also Industry, Suffrage, Commerce, and Wars New Hampshire: founded, 4ff. See also Immigration, Royal province, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state New Jersey, founded, 6 See also Immigration, Royal province, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state Newlands, Senator, 524 New Mexico, admission, 443 New Orleans, 59, 190 battle, 201 Newspapers, colonial, 46f. New York: founded by Dutch, 3 transferred to English, 49 See also Dutch, Immigration, Royal province, Commerce, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state New York City, colonial, 36 Niagara, Fort, 59 Nicaragua protectorate, 594 Non-intercourse act, 196f. Non-importation, 84f., 99 North, Lord, 100, 131, 133 North Carolina: founded, 6 See also Royal province, Immigration, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state North Dakota, admission, 442 Northwest Ordinance, 219 Nullification, 182, 251ff. Oglethorpe, James, 3 Ohio, admission, 225 Oklahoma, admission, 443 Open door policy, 500 Oregon, 284f. Ostend Manifesto, 486 Otis, James, 88, 95f. Pacific, American influence, 447 Paine, Thomas, 103, 115, 175 Panama Canal, 508f. Panics: 1837, 262 1857, 336 1873, 464 1893, 465 Parcel post, 529 Parker, A.B., 527 Parties: rise of, 168f. Federalists, 169f. Anti-Federalists (Jeffersonian Republicans), 169f. Democrats, 260 Whigs, 260f. Republicans, 334f. Liberal Republicans, 420 Constitutional union, 340 minor parties, 462f. Paterson, William, 196f. Penn, William, 6 Pennsylvania: founded, 6 See also Penn, Germans, Immigration, Industry, Revolutionary War, Constitutions, state, Suffrage Pennsylvania University, 45 Pensions, soldiers and sailors, 413, 607 mothers', 551 Pequots, 57 Perry, O.H., 200 Pershing, General, 610 Philadelphia, 36, 116 Philippines, 492f., 516f., 592 Phillips, Wendell, 320 Pierce, Franklin, 295, 330 Pike, Z., 193, 287 Pilgrims, 4 Pinckney, Charles, 148 Pitt, William, 61, 79, 87, 132 Planting system, 22., 25, 149, 389, 393ff. Plymouth, 4, 21 Polk, J.K., 265, 285f. Polygamy, 290. Populist party, 464 Porto Rico, 515, 592 Postal savings bank, 529 Preble, Commodore, 196 Press. See Newspapers Primary, direct, 541 Princeton, battle, 129 University, 45 Profit sharing, 572 Progressive party, 531 Prohibition, 591 Proprietary colonies, 3, 6 Provinces, royal, 49f. Public service, 538f. Pulaski, 121 Pullman strike, 465 Pure food act, 523 Puritans, 3, 7, 40f. Quakers, 6ff. Quartering act, 83 Quebec act, 94 Queen Anne's War, 59 Quit rents, 21 Radicals, 579 Railways, 298, 402, 425, 460ff., 547, 621 Randolph, Edmund, 146, 147, 162 Ratification, of Constitution, 156f. Recall, 543 Reclamation, 523f. Reconstruction, 370f. Referendum, the, 543 Reign of terror, 174 Republicans: Jeffersonian, 179 rise of present party, 334f. supremacy of, 412f. See also McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft Resumption, 454 Revolution: American, 99f. French, 171f. Russian, 619 Rhode Island: founded, 4ff. self-government, 49 See also Suffrage Roosevelt, Theodore, 492, 500ff., 531, 570 Royal province, 49f. Russia, 205, 207, 355, 479, 619 Russo-Japanese War, 511 Saint Mihiel, 612 Samoa, 481 San Jacinto, 280 Santa Fé trail, 287 Santo Domingo, 480, 513, 592 Saratoga, battle, 116, 130 Savannah, 116, 131 Scandinavians, 278 Schools. See Education Scott, General, 283, 330 Scotch-Irish, 7ff. Seamen's act, 590 Sea power: American Revolution, 118 Napoleonic wars, 193f. Civil War, 353 Caribbean, 593 Pacific, 447 World War, 610f. Secession, 344f. Sedition: act of 1798, 180f., 187 of 1918, 608 Senators, popular election, 527, 541ff. Seven Years' War, 60f. Sevier, John, 218 Seward, W.H., 322, 342 Shafter, General, 492 Shays's rebellion, 142 Sherman, General, 361 Sherman: anti-trust law, 461 silver act, 458 Shiloh, 361 Shipping. See Commerce Shipping act, 607 Silver, free, 455f. Slavery: colonial, 16. trade, 150 in Northwest, 219 decline in North, 316. growth in South, 320f. and the Constitution, 324 and territories, 325f. compromises, 350 abolished, 357f. Smith, Joseph, 290 Socialism, 577f. Solid South, 388 Solomon, Hayn, 126 Sons of liberty, 82 South: economic and political views, 309f. See also Slavery and Planting system, and Reconstruction South Carolina: founded, 6 nullification, 253f. See also Constitutions, state, Suffrage, Slavery, and Secession South Dakota, 442 Spain: and Revolution, 130 Louisiana, 190 Monroe Doctrine, 205 Spanish War, 490f. Spoils system, 244, 250, 418, 536ff. Stamp act, 82f. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 564 States: disorders under Articles of Confederation, 141 constitutions, federal limits on, 155 position after Civil War, 366f. See also Suffrage, Nullification, and Secession Steamboat, 234 Stowe, H.B., 332 Strikes: of 1877, 581 Pullman, 581 coal, 526 See also Labor Submarine campaign, 600f. Suffrage: colonial, 42, 51 first state constitutions, 239 White manhood, 242 Negro, 374f., 385. Woman, 110, 562ff. Sugar act, 81 Sumner, Charles, 319 Sumter, Fort, 350 Swedes, 3, 13 Taft, W.H., 527f. Tammany Hall, 306, 418 Taney, Chief Justice, 357 Tariff: first, 167 of 1816, 203 development of, 251f. abominations, 249, 253 nullification, 251 of 1842, 264 Southern views of, 309f. of 1857, 337 Civil War, 367 Wilson bill, 459 McKinley bill, 422 Dingley bill, 472 Payne-Aldrich, 528 Underwood, 588 Taxation: and representation, 149 and Constitution, 154 Civil War, 353 and wealth, 522, 551 and World War, 606 Tea act, 88 Tea party, 92 Tenement house reform, 549 Tennessee, 28, 224 Territories, Northwest, 219 South of the Ohio, 219 See also Slavery and Compromise Texas, 278f. Tippecanoe, battle, 198 Tocqueville, 267 Toleration, religious, 42 Tories, colonial, 84 in Revolution, 112 Townshend acts, 80, 87 Trade, colonial, 70 legislation, 70 See Commerce Transylvania company, 28 Treasury, independent, 263 Treaties, of 1763, 61 alliance with France, 177 of 1783 with England, 134 Jay, 177, 218 Louisiana purchase, 191. of 1815, 201 Ashburton, 265 of 1848 with Mexico, 283 Washington with England, 481 with Spain, 492 Versailles (1919), 612f. Trenton, battle, 116 Trollope, Mrs., 268 Trusts, 405f., 461, 472ff., 521, 526, 530 Tweed, W.M., 418 Tyler, President, 264f., 281, 349 "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 332 Union party, 365 Unions. See Labor Utah, 290f., 329, 442 Utilities, municipal, 548 Vallandigham, 360 Valley Forge, 116, 129 Van Buren, Martin, 262 Venango, Fort, 59 Venezuela, 482f., 512 Vermont, 223 Vicksburg, 361 Virginia: founded, 6 See also Royal province, Constitutions, state, Planting system, Slavery, Secession, and Immigration Walpole, Sir Robert, 66 Wars: colonial, 57f. Revolutionary, 99f. of 1812, 199f. Mexican, 282f. Civil, 344f. Spanish, 490f. World, 596f. Washington: warns French, 60 in French war, 63 commander-in-chief, 101f. and movement for Constitution, 142f. as President, 166f. Farewell Address, 178 Washington City, 166 Washington State, 442 Webster, 256, 265, 328 Welfare work, 573 Whigs: English, 78 colonial, 83 rise of party, 260f., 334, 340 Whisky Rebellion, 171 White Camelia, 382 White Plains, battle, 114 Whitman, Marcus, 284 William and Mary College, 45 Williams, Roger, 5, 42 Wilmot Proviso, 326 Wilson, James, 147 Wilson, Woodrow, election, 533. administrations, 588f. Winthrop, John, 3 Wisconsin, admission, 274 Witchcraft, 41 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 556 Women: colonial, 28 Revolutionary War, 124 labor, 305 education and civil rights, 554f. suffrage, 562f. Workmen's compensation, 549 Writs of assistance, 88 Wyoming, admission, 442 X, Y, Z affair, 180 Yale, 44 Young, Brigham, 290 Zenger, Peter, 48
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