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A Concise History of the United States of America Susan-Mary Grant Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84825-1 - A Concise History of the United States of America Susan-Mary Grant Index More information Index Abenaki raids, 89–90 in United States generally, 5 Abolition movement voting rights in Mississippi, 347 American Colonization Society, 164 women, denial of right to vote to, formation of, 161–162 272 Free Soil Party, 164, 167f Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 304 Northern perspective on, 162–164 Alabama, 174–176, 217, 349 post-Civil War, 192–194 Albany Plan of Union, post-Revolutionary War, 131 Albright, Madeleine, 2 Republicans, 164 Alexander VI, 12–13 Southern reaction to, 162, 163f Algonquians Abortion rights, 372f, 371–372, 373 adoption of English settlers by, 60 Abrams vs. United States, 422 relationship with Jamestown settlers, Act Concerning Religion (Toleration Act) 29–32, 45, 63–65 of 1649, 48–49 relationship with New England settlers, Act of Supremacy (1534), 14 52, 57–58, 89 Adams, John Quincy, 153 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, 129, Adams, Samuel, 139, 409–410 153–154 Addams, Jane, 262, 410–411 Al Qaeda, 376–377 Afghanistan War, 377 Altgeld, John P., 246f African-Americans. See also Slavery America First Committee, 310 Civil War exodus, 183–184 American Birth Control League (ABCL), Civil War motivations, 195 293–294 Federal Writers Project, 306 American Century incarceration of, 375–376 Luce on, 326–327 military service, WWI, 256–257, overview, 7–8 272–273 universal democratization in, 327 Moynihan Report, 371 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), perception of as degenerate, 273 294–295 police brutality towards in Mississippi, American colonies. See also United States; 348 specific colonies Reconstruction, voting right removal, attitudes towards government in, 96 209f, 213–214, 216, 219f attitudes towards non-whites in, resettlement back to Africa, 164, 424 109–111 433 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84825-1 - A Concise History of the United States of America Susan-Mary Grant Index More information 434 Index American colonies (cont.) Apollo-Soyuz Project, 367 change in church membership policies, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the 85 World (Walker), 162 economic impact of conflict in, 97–98, Arapaho Nation, 190 131–132 Arizona, Miranda vs., 352–353 gender inequalities in, 88 Arkansas, 144, 174–176 imposition of slave tax by, 108 Armed Forces indirect democracy in, 134 desegration of, 336, 337f individual rights concepts in, 106 draft, 279, 310 inequalities in, 88 expansion, maintenance of, 324 initial colonial management debate in, Japanese American service in, 319–320 93–104 relationship of people with, 314 Jamestown. (See Virginia (Jamestown)) segregation, WWII, 313–314, 318, 323 oaths of allegiance in, 128 Armstrong, Neil, 364 opposition to British rule in, 119–120 Arnold, Benedict, 167f original thirteen colonies, 74t, 92f Arsenal of Democracy, 314–316 “Parson’s Cause” case, 98 Art Deco building, 282f penalties for disloyalty in, 127f, 128 Articles of Confederation, 130–131 population trends in Astaire, Fred, 331f property ownership concepts in, 107 Atomic technology, 328, 331f realities of life in, 83–84, 87–88 Attlee, Clement, 328–329 settlement expansion in, 91–93, 99f Attucks, Crispus, 102f, 117 state vs. individual authority debate in, Automobiles 106–109 boom, 1920’s, 283, 287, 297 taxation without representation in, 101 pollution and, 342 trade regulation in, 81 Aztecs, 14–15 Virginia. (See Virginia) women’s roles in, 87 Babbit (Lewis), 287 American Colonization Society, 164 Bacon, Nathaniel, 64–65 American Enlightenment, 95 Bacon’s Rebellion, 61, 64–65 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 236 Baldwin, James, 336 American gangster fantasy, 286 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 185 American Party (Know-Nothings), Barbarism threat, 211, 220f, 217–221, 222 197–198, 223 Barlowe, Arthur, 20–22 American Progress (Gast), 187 Battle of Camden, 122, 126 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Battle of Iwo Jima, 311f, 322f, 321–322, 373 323 An American Dilemma: The Negro Battle of Saratoga, 124–125 Problem and Modern Democracy Battle of the Severn, 49 (Myrdal), 334–335, 336–337 Battle of Trenton, 122–123 Andros, Edmund, 78, 79–80 The Beatles, 357–358 Anghiera, Peter Martyr, 18–19 Beecher Stowe, Harriet, 169 Anglo-Dutch war (1664), 73 Bell, Buck vs., 293 Anna Karenina, 296–297 Bellamy, Edward, 228–229 Anti-communism. See Cold War Berkeley, George, 187 Anti-Federalist papers, 386n Berkeley, William, 63, 64, 73 Anti-Imperialist League, 253–255 Bicentennial celebrations Antinomian crisis, 56, 72 conservative counterculture, 369–370 Antitrust legislation, 233–234, 235 Freedom Train, 368–369 Apollo 8, 364 Reagan on government, 369 Apollo 12, 367 The Big Money (Dos Passos), 279–280 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84825-1 - A Concise History of the United States of America Susan-Mary Grant Index More information Index 435 Bill of Rights, 142–143f, 203 Capone, Al “Scarface,” 286 Birth control, 293–294, 430–431 Carmichael, Stokely, 349, 351 Black Power movement, 349.SeealsoCivil Carnegie, Andrew, 233–234 rights movement Carteret, George, 73 Black scare, 333–334 Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Bochart de Champigny, Jean, 71–72 Spirits (Mather), 85 Booth, John Wilkes, 194 Cato’s Letters (Trenchard/Gordon), 107 Boston labor strike, 280–281 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Boston Massacre (1770), 100, 102f 332–333, 354 Boston Tea Party, 101–103 A Century of Dishonor (Jackson), 239 Bow, Clara, 296 Charles I (King of England), 44, 48, 95–96 Bradford, William, 57 Charles II (King of England), 72, 73 Brattle Street Church, 85 Charlestown Library Society, 148 Brave New World (Huxley), 299–300 Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern A Briefe and True Report of the New Railroad, 205–206 Found Land of Virginia (Hariot), 26f, Cheyenne Nation, 190 24–26, 27, 28f, 35f, 36f, 45 Chicago, 224, 262 British Guiana, 248 Chinese Brittingham, Norman, 313–314 California, immigrant naturalization in, Brown, John, 169, 191, 265–266 196, 198 Brown, William Wells, 156 lynchings, 217 Brown vs. Board of Education, 336–337 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 198, Bry, Theodor de, 16–18 229–230 Bryan, William Jennings Churchill, Winston, 328–329 campaign strategy, 247 Churchyard, Thomas, 19–20 presidential campaign, 242–243, 244f, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 304 245–247 Civil Rights Act of 1875, 219f as radical, 245, 246f Civil Rights Act of 1964, 346–347 Scopes Trial, 294–295 Civil Rights Cases of 1883, 219f Buck vs. Bell, 293 Civil rights movement Bunker Hill, battle of, 122 activist murders, 344–345, 347–348 Burgoyne, John, 124–125 beginnings of, 273–274, 337–338 Bush, George W., 3–4, 376–377 Black Power movement, 349 Bushnell, Horace, 211 citizenship rights, 352–353 Butler Act challenge, 294–295 Civil War Centennial, 343–345 Commission on Civil Rights, 335–336 Caboto, Giovanni (John Cabot), 14–15 Freedom Rides, 343 Calhoun, John C., 159–160, 162, 167f, immigration rights, 373–375.(See also 411–412 Immigrants) California inequality before the law, 352–353 admission to Union, 144 LGBT rights, 373, 374f Chinese immigrant naturalization in, Little Rock school desegregation, 196, 198 338–339 Mexican naturalization in, 196–197 March on Washington, 344f, 344–345 Calley, William, 365–366 Meredith March, 351–352 Calvert, Cecil, 48–49 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 338 Calvert, George, 48 motivations, impetus for, 352 Calvin, John, 50 Pink, Lavendar, Black scares, 333–334 Cambodia invasion, 365 race riots, 274, 353, 361f, 360–361, 362 Cambridge Agreement of 1629, 77 Selma to Montgomery March, 351, 352 Capital punishment, 279–280 voting rights, 347, 351–352 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-84825-1 - A Concise History of the United States of America Susan-Mary Grant Index More information 436 Index Civil rights movement (cont.) Suez Crisis, 339 Watts riots, 353 Truman Doctrine, 329 women in. (See Women) Colfax Massacre, 214–216 Woolworth lunch counter protest, 343 Collier, John, 307–308 Civil War Columbian exchange, 12–13 African American exodus, 183–184 Columbus, Christopher, 12–13 African American motivations, 195 Commission on Civil Rights, 335–336 arming of slaves during, 182 Committee on Public Information (CPI), Border States, 183 275 disease effects on, 13–14 Committee to Defend America by Aiding First Bull Run/Manassas, 177, 179 the Allies, 310 focusing of American identity by, Common Sense (Paine), 71, 97, 103–104, 180–182 106–107 Gettysburg, 266 Communism, 203–204.SeealsoCold War legacy, 194–195, 199, 207, 255–256 Confederate States of America map of, 181f arming of slaves by, 182 morale issues in, 179–180 army, challenges to, 179 Native American motivations, 195–196 artistic portrayal of by Northern patriotic propaganda, 330 interests, 175f, 178f preservation of union basis, 176–177 citizenship definitions in, 173 public opinion on, 177–179 Constitutional basis of, 172–173 Sanitary Fairs, 330 Constitution on slavery, 173–174 slavery as principle in, 106, 169–171, defeat, artistic portrayals of, 193f 173–174, 183.(See also Slavery) formation of, 172, 178f sustaining military support during, 180 slavery as cornerstone of, 173–174, Thirteenth Amendment, 192–194 175f, 178f Civil War Centennial, 343–345 succession of states from Union, Class war, 279–281 174–176 Clay, Henry, 157–158, 412–414, 424 Confessions of a Nazi Spy, 309 Clean Air Act, 364–365 Conflict as unifying force, 266–267.See Cleveland, Grover, 230, 231f also Identity (American) formation Clinton, William J., 374–375 Connecticut Cobb, Howell, 182 establishment of, 72 Coercive (Intolerable) Acts of 1774, 100, Fundamental Orders (1639), 77 101–103, 109 legislative structure in, 77 COINTELPRO, 348 overview, 74t Cold War penalty for going native in, 60 beginning of, 328–329 retention of local control in, 80 economic strategy, 329 Constitution Eisenhower Doctrine, 339 in American identity formation, 136 ending of, 364 Bill of Rights, 142–143f, 203 fear as basis of, 354–355 centralized power debate generally, hiatus in, 336 138–139 Hungary anti-Communist uprising, citizenship definitions in, 173 339 Federalist vs.
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