by Hugh Brogan
Plains I., 246, 379
I. Removal Act (1830), 61, 67
I. Reorganization Act
(1934), 254
scalping, 62n
slavery and, 62n
I. trade, 8, 53, 56, 58–9, 85
I. traders, 59, 62–3, 85
wampum, 59n
Indigo, 108
Individualism, 48, 50, 93, 241, 258, 447, 516
Indo-China, 562, 564, 606, 646–64
A. bombing of, 661 French war in, 647–8
Industrial Revolution see Revolution, Industrial
Industrial Workers of the
World (‘Wobblies’), 459, 478
Industrialism, 363, 372, 381, 386, 389, 391, 393, 404, 406, 409, 439, 444, 464, 467
Industrialists, 258, 290, 361, 384, 389, 391, 417, 445, 470, 488, 496, 506, 514, 532, 567, 587, 621
Industry, 271, 304, 495, 504, 507–8, 512
in Second World War, 560
since 1945, 589
Inflation, 334, 385, 430, 443, 488, 526, 527–8, 548, 589, 670, 671, 674, 675, 683, 686
Insull, Samuel, 509, 517
Insurance, 536
Insurance, social, 416, 420, 458, 541
Integration, racial (see also Desegregation), 627, 631
Interior, department of the, 500, 688, 689
‘Internal improvements’, 370
International Ladies
Garment Workers
Union (ILGWU), 535
International Monetary
Fund, 577
Internationalism, 495
Interstate Commerce
Commission, 453
Interstate Highway Act, 611
Intolerable or Coercive Acts, 161, 163, 166, 175, 190
Iowa, 40, 190, 240, 245, 290, 301, 516, 536, 540
Iran, 611
Iran-Conrra scandal, 691
Iraq, 693
Ireland, Irish, 4, 7, 11, 15, 17, 67n, 101, 145, 155, 300, 303, 363, 394, 396, 401, 402, 403, 404, 471, 603
Easter Rising, 473
Irish Protestants, 95n, 226, 402
Irish-Americans, 272–3, 401, 437, 488, 559, 641, 642
Isolationism, 256, 439, 476, 487, 488, 498, 501, 554–86 passim, 577, 602, 609, 647, 651
Israel, 603, 611, 664, 666, 670, 681, 693
Italian-Americans, 437, 558, 590, 641, 642
Italy, Italians, 6–7, 35, 394, 402, 404, 417, 483, 499, 530, 573, 590, 603, 604
Iwo Jima, 574, 581
Jackson, Andrew (Pres. 1829–37), 66, 67, 178, 184, 209, 225–30, 232, 254, 260, 266–7, 276, 278, 287, 296, 355, 362, 370, 384, 407, 418, 432, 449, 452, 454, 455, 460, 463, 507, 543, 598, 686
at battle of New Orleans, 226, 227–8, 266–7
candidate for Pres., 270–73, 295
as Pres., 273–6, 295, 296
quoted: Bank Veto
message, 275; toast to the Union, 318; also quoted, 249, 275n
Jackson, Michigan, 303
Jackson, Mississippi, 632
Jackson, Rachel, 226, 227
Jackson, Gen. Thomas
Jonathan (‘Stonewall’), 321, 326, 327, 335
death of, 336
Jacksonian party (see also Democratic party), 266, 272
Jacobs, Henry, 40n
Jamaica, 83n, 118, 619
James, Henry, 40n
James I, King, 13, 17, 23, 24, 27, 36
James II, King, 133, 168
James river, 18, 19, 24, 27, 326
Jamestown, Virginia, 20, 22, 23, 27, 37, 39, 88, 104, 167, 176, 184, 195, 218, 220, 326
Japan, Japanese, 395, 404, 405, 438, 441, 455, 484, 495, 496, 497
and the A. tariff, 496, 513
and Second World War, 551, 552, 553, 555, 556, 558, 561–6
Pearl Harbor attack, 563–6
War with US, 566, 571, 572–3, 574, 578, 579, 581, 585, 647, 654
since 1945, 587, 589–90, 605, 651, 685
Japanese-Americans, 214, 564
during Second World
War, 568
Jay, John, 185, 201, 261
quoted, 186
Jayhawkers, 245
Jay’s Treaty, 260—61, 262
Jefferson, Thomas (Pres. 1801–9), 20, 81, 104, 106, 130–31n, 179, 182, 193, 201, 203, 209, 210, 228, 250, 254, 255, 256, 266, 269, 270, 271, 272, 277, 286, 358, 362, 408, 415, 432, 448, 462, 477, 499, 528, 598, 684
character, 174
and D. of Independence, 174–8
and slavery, 104, 263, 281, 294
and the West, 192
and A. Hamilton, 257–60, 266
as Pres., 212, 213, 237, 252, 257, 263, 266, 267
Notes on Virginia, 107, 280
quoted: D. of independence, 181–2;
on Constitutional
Convention, 194; First Inaugural, 249, 252, 468; on cities, 257; on
slavery, 288; also quoted, 162, 195, 260, 262
Jeffersonism, 106, 258, 269, 377, 408, 448, 506, 615
Jesuits (Society of Jesus), 62
Jews, 94, 394, 395, 399, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 417, 488, 503, 554, 557, 558, 573, 603, 681
‘Jim Crow’ laws, 371, 461, 615, 621
‘John Brown’s Body’, 310, 491
‘Johnny Appleseed’ (John Chapman), 232
Johns Hopkins University, 414, 460
Johnson, Sen. Albert, 497
Johnson, Andrew (Pres. 1865–9), 347, 349–51, 352–6, 359, 408, 461, 634
impeachment of, 355–6
Johnson, Anthony, 28
Johnson, Sen. Hiram, 458
Johnson, Gen. Hugh, 531–3, 554
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (Pres. 1963–9), 541, 608, 613, 630, 631, 634–6, 640, 643, 644, 645, 662, 670, 672, 685
war on poverty, 642
and Vietnam War, 650–51
passim
quoted, 650, 659
Johnson, Dr Samuel, 50, 74, 128, 179
Johnston, Gen. Albert
Sidney, 325
Johnston, Gen. Joseph
Eggleston, 326, 341, 343, 345
Jones, Bobby, 491
Jones, Jesse, 543, 544, 545, 569
Jones, Jim, 236n
Jones, John Paul, 182
Jones, Samuel Milton
(‘Golden Rule’), 464
Joseph, Chief, 69
Journalism (see abo Newspapers), 262, 263, 292, 414, 450, 49m, 607, 624, 663
Judicial review, 211–12
Judicial supremacy, 211–13
Judiciary, 621, 633
colonial, 118
federal (see also Supreme Court), 211, 264, 601, 626, 628, 632
state, 227, 270, 400, 536
‘Junius’, quoted, 154–5
Kansas
state, 62–3, 241n, 245, 379, 422, 423, 425, 428, 433, 538
territory, 302, 304–5, 307, 308, 626n
Kansas City, Missouri, 246, 422
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 379
Kansas–Nebraska Act, 302–5
Kefauver, Sen. Estes Carey, 608, 628
Kellogg, Frank B., 501
Kellogg–Briand pact, 502, 555, 647
Kendall, Amos, 296
Kennan, Ambassador
George, 594
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Bouvier, 614
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (Pres. 1961–3), 608, 613–14, 630–35, 639, 644, 649, 649–50, 653, 658, 663, 684–5, 691
assassination, 634, 650, 669
quoted, 613–14, 633–4
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick, 525, 529
Kennedy, Robert Francis, 630, 632, 653, 659–60, 691
assassination, 669
Kent State University, Ohio, 662
Kentucky, 49, 223–5, 226, 230, 231, 247, 270, 283, 305, 311, 312, 425, 513, 624
in Civil War, 316, 317, 327, 329, 332
Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions, 262
Keynes, John Maynard, 479, 483, 485, 487, 516, 674–5, 687
Khmer Rouge, 671
Khomeini, Ayatollah
/> Ruhollah, 682
Khrushchev, Nikita
Sergeivich, 630–31, 692
Kim II Sung, 605
Kimball, Heber Chase, 234
King, Coretta, 630
King, Martin Luther, 632, 633, 634, 636, 645–6, 660
assassination, 643, 669
quoted, 615, 629
‘King Philip’ (Pometacom), 57n, 63
King, Rufus, o Kinsey, Alfred, 677
Kipling, Rudyard, 435
quoted, 435n, 441
Kirtland, Ohio, 236
Kissinger, Henry, 663–4, 671, 674, 680, 681, 690
Klondike Gold Rush, 421, 430
Knights of Labor, Order of the, 418–19, 420
Knights of the White
Camelia, 367
‘Know–Nothings’ (American party), 303–4, 307, 403
Knowland, Sen. William
Fife, 609, 612
Knox, Frank, 559
Knox, Gen. Henry, 167, 193, 257
Korea (see also War, Korean), 563, 609
South K., 587, 651
Kreuger, Ivar, 509, 517
Ku Klux Klan, 236, 352, 367–8, 488, 501, 503, 504, 627, 635–6
Kuwait, 693
La Follette, Sen. Robert, Jr, 599
La Follette, Sen. Robert, Sr, 444, 456, 457, 501
La Guardia, Mayor Fiorello, 623
Labour disputes, 399, 404, 430, 488, 595
Labour injunction, 421, 430, 431, 458, 595
Labour movement, 412, 415–21, 459
Labour relations, 388, 390, 477, 526
Labour (see also Unemployment; Wages), 393, 398, 402, 503, 530, 671
child, 416, 458, 461, 532, 618
in post-bellum South, 358, 617, 621–2
supply, 394–5, 396, 406
sweated, 464
in Second World War, 567
Labour unions (see also American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial Organizations), 363, 404, 417–21, 451, 458, 459, 492, 496, 506, 531–2, 535, 547, 567–8, 616, 618, 620, 621
Lancashire, 229, 295, 322, 469n
Land, speculation in, 192, 226, 235, 384, 423, 507
Land grants, 370, 385, 396, 399, 411, 422, 427
Land hunger, 13, 16 18, 25, 48, 59–70, 103, 120
Land Ordinance (1785), 191, 192, 219
Landon, Gov. Alfred M., 545, 559, 569
Lands, public, 226, 278, 301, 304, 384, 397, 421, 427, 688–9
Lansing, John, 200
Laos, 613, 649, 654, 661, 671
Latin America, 366, 442, 468, 552, 557, 589, 603
Latter–Day Saints, Church
of Jesus Christ of the see Mormons
Lattimore, Owen, 602
Lawrence, Kansas, 305
Le Due Tho, 664
League of Armed Neutrality,
First, 182
League of Nations, 477, 480, 483, 484, 486–8, 489, 495, 499, 501, 513, 555, 575, 576, 581
Lease, Mary, 428
Lebanon, 611, 691
Lee, Gen. Henry (‘Light–Horse Harry’), 254
Lee, Richard Henry, 174, 178
Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, 25n, 69, 309, 317, 322, 326–7, 330, 333, 335–7, 340–41, 343–5, 348–9, 368
Leflore, Greenwood, 67
Lehman, Gov. Herbert, 531
Leifthe Lucky (Leif Eriksson), 4
Lend–Lease Act, 560
Leo X, Pope, quoted, 685
Levittown, Pennsylvania, 641
Lewis, John L., 531–2, 534, 547
Lewis and Clark expedition, 192, 237
Lexington, Batde of, 135, 165, 172, 173, 190, 193, 581
Leyden, Holland, 34–6, 39, 40n
Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 574
Liberator, The, 323
Liddy, Gordon, 665, 666
Life magazine, 588, 598
Lincoln, Abraham (Pres. 1861–5), 166, 170, 179n, 209, 228, 230, 268, 293, 298, 303, 304, 307, 309, 310, 325, 342, 357, 362–3, 378, 407, 444, 460, 477, 479, 491, 499, 545, 549, 587, 616, 684
Congressman, 297
and slavery, 297, 314, 328–9
elected Pres., 311
in secession crisis, 312–13
and outbreak of Civil War, 315–16
as Commander–in–Chief, 316, 321, 326, 327, 336, 337, 340, 341
as war leader, 317, 318, 323–4, 326, 327–8, 330, 331, 334, 335, 341, 342, 344, 409
as party leader, 347, 349, 354
and Reconstruction, 337, 349
assassination, 345, 346–7, 348, 449, 581, 634
quoted, First Inaugural, 213n, 312, 313–14, 414; Gettysburg Address, 337–8, 425; on labour and capital, 383–4; on nativism, 304; on his Presidency, 298; Second Inaugural, 343–7, 479; on slavery, 100, 243, 479
Lincoln–Douglas debates, 304, 307
Lindbergh, Charles
Augustus, 491, 503n
Lindsay, Vachel, ‘Bryan, Bryan, Bryan’ quoted, 433
Lippmann, Walter, 487
Literary Digest, 544, 545
Lithuanians, 394
Little Big Horn, Battle of the, 68, 246
Little Rock, Arkansas, 628, 630
Liverpool, 101
Livingston, Robert R., 174
Lloyd George, David, 481, 482, 483, 486, 527
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 410–11
Lobbying see Pressure
Groups
Locke, John, 6o, 146, 209
Lodge, Sen. Henry Cabot,
Jr, 650
Lodge, Sen. Henry Cabot,
Sr, 460, 483, 486–8, 495
London, 15, 23, 24, 37, 42, 96n, 108, 122, 187, 276, 291
City of, 391, 430
and A. Civil War, 335
mob, 126
and Stamp Act repeal, 132–3
London Economic
Conference, 528, 553
Long Drive, 379–80, 401–2
Long Island, NY, 179–80, 638
Long, Sen. Huey Pierce, 243, 503, 544
Longstreet, Gen. James, 336
Lookout Mountain,
Colorado, 248
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 570
Los Angeles, Calif., 511, 588, 624
Watts district of, 639
Los Angeles Times, 459
Louis XIV, King of France, 12, 52, 76, 93, 104
Louis XV, 111
Louis XVI, 74, 180, 181n, 250
Louisbourg, 119
Louisiana
French colony, 52, 53, 310n
Spanish colony, 66, 168, 187, 226, 237
state, 243, 294, 311, 404, 503, 617, 635, 661; in Civil War, 331, 339; under Reconstruction, 352–3, 361, 362–3, 369
Louisiana Purchase, 237, 251, 263, 294, 310n
Lovejoy, Elijah, 293Loving Unity, 94
Lowell, Mass., 381 ‘Loyal Nine’, 130
Loyalists in A. Revolution, 165, 168n, 172, 179, 180, 183
Southern, in Civil War, 311
Luce, Henry, 588, 597
Lusitania, SS, 471, 555
Lutherans, German, 95
Lynching, 108, 131, 254, 366, 368, 404, 444, 479, 536, 596, 615, 627, 630
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 517, 564, 571, 573, 574, 580, 589, 605–8
McBride, John, 421
McCarthy, Sen. Eugene, 659–60
McCarthy, Sen. Joseph
Raymond, 598–600, 609, 611, 627, 659
quoted, 599
McCarthyism, 597–603, 651
McClellan, Gen. George
Brinton, 316, 321, 322, 324, 326, 327
McCormick Reaper Co., 419
McDougall, Alexander, 136
McDowell, Gen. Irvin, 319, 321
McGillivray, Alexander, 67, 190
McGovern, Sen. George, 664
McGready, Rev. James, 231
Machines, political, 236, 243, 399–401, 412, 459, 464, 638
Macintosh, Ebenezer, 130
McKinley, William (Pres. 1897–1900, 429, 431, 433, 438, 440, 441, 444, 449, 450, 492, 634
McManes, James, 412
; McNamara, Robert S., 649, 651
McNary–Haugen bill, 503
Madison, James (Pres. 1809–17), 105n, 205, 206, 212, 227, 257, 260, 262, 263, 271
character, 193–4
and Articles of Confederation, 208
at Constitutional
Convention, 197, 207, 214
and ratification, 200, 203
as Pres., 209, 254, 255, 263, 270
quoted, on Revolution, 163
Madoc, Prince, 4, 14
Maine, 18, 108, 198n
colonial, 49, 137
state, 294, 413, 545
Maine, USS, 440
Maize (corn), 21, 305, 422
Malaya, 649, 651
Manassas Junction, Virginia, 321
Manchuria, 513, 552, 563, 566, 607
Manhattan island (see also New York city), 7, 35, 170, 180, 398, 490, 494
Manhattan Project, 570
‘Manifest Destiny’, 297
Manila, 440, 571
Battle of M. Bay, 441
Mansfield, William, Earl of, 134
Manufacturers see Industrialists
Mao Tse–tung, 562, 578, 592, 597, 604, 652
Marblehead, Mass., 47, 176
Marbury v. Madison, 211–12
Marcy, William E., 267
Marijuana, 679
Marines, US Corps of, 442, 468, 574, 653
Marne, Battles of the, 467, 479
Marshall, Gen. George
Catlett, 564, 609, 656
as Secretary of State, 592, 602
as Secretary of Defense, 606
quoted, 540n, 592, 606
Marshall, Chief Justice John, 104, 203, 211–12
Marshall, Mr Justice Thurgood, 676
quoted, 644
Marshall Plan, 593–4, 607
Martin, Luther, 196, 200, 202
Maryland, 40, 108n
colony, 28, 52, 84, 95, 101, 108–9
in Revolution, 13m, 159
state, 194, 196, 202, 207, 260, 283, 293, 306, 661
in the Civil War, 317, 327, 329, 336
Mason, George, 189, 195, 199–200, 203, 213
Mason, James Murray, 324–5
Massachusetts,
Commonwealth of
colony of M. Bay, 42, 45–9, 51–2, 88, 89, 91–3, 155, 234, 273, 418, 425;
Adams–Hutchinson feud, 139–40; in A. Revolution, 158—61, 162, 164; disputes with New York, 136; radicals in, 137, 141n, 153; in Revolutionary war, 171n; and Seven Years War, 93, 114, 119; and Stamp Act, 129–31; tidewater ascendancy in, 145; and Townshend duties, 146–50 passim; and White Pine Acts, 118n; and writs of assistance, 123
state, 208, 230, 259, 287, 291, 303.489, 500; and abolitionism, 293, 300, 304; ratification of Constitution, 202; Sacco and Vanzetti case, 497; Shays’s rebellion, 189–91, 193