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by Hugh Brogan


  Sheridan, Gen. Philip Henry, 62, 341, 343, 344

  Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh, 340, 341–2

  quoted, 69, 656

  S.’s march to the sea, 68, 342

  Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 445, 451, 455, 459, 530, 532

  Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 429

  Shevardnadze, Eduard, 692

  Shiloh, Battle of, 325

  Ship-building, 84, 92, 566, 616

  Shipping lines, 392, 396, 397

  Shriners, 418

  Shultz, George, 692

  Siamese twins, 277

  Siberia, 496

  Sierra Nevada mountains, 241n

  Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 654, 661

  Silver (see also Currency), 5, 24n, 276, 427, 429

  mining, 430

  politics of s., 430–33, 557

  Simpson, ‘Sockless’ Jerry, 428

  Sinclair, Upton, 454

  Sitting Bull, 68, 246, 247

  ‘Skraelings’, 4, 5

  Slave codes, colonial, 100

  Slave patrols, 284, 286, 619

  ‘Slave Power, The’, 298, 302, 305, 308

  Slave states, 199, 245, 287n, 305, 307, 317

  Slave Trade, Atlantic, 4, 47, 83, 99–103, 106, 107, 175n, 198–9, 396

  outlawed, 282, 283

  ended, 324

  Slave trade, internal, 283, 287, 299, 352–3, 358

  Slave-holders see Planters

  Slavery, political, idea of, and the A. Revolution, 116, 133, 148, 162

  Slavery (see also Anti-Slavery; Fugitive Slave laws), 11, 192, 199, 236, 243, 244, 279, 280–90, 291, 292, 293, 295-6, 306, 311, 351, 352, 357, 361, 365, 366, 372, 389, 403, 407, 409, 412, 627, 646

  abolition of s.: in District of Columbia, 324; in North, 280; in the Union, 307, 338, 343

  extension of s., question of, 245, 294, 296, 298-307 passim, 313, 314

  introduction of s., 27-8, 99-103, 106-7

  slave rebellions, 107

  Southern commitment to, 310

  Slaves, 62, 101-2, 107, 226, 243, 244, 277n, 280, 287, 295

  in Civil War, 329-30, 332 ‘contrabands’, 329, 332

  response to Emancipation Proclamation, 332

  and emancipation, 358

  fugitive s., 128, 304

  s. rebellions, 199, 284

  Slidell, John, 324-5

  Slovaks, 394

  Slovenes, 394

  Small Business Administration, 640

  Smeal, Eleanor, 680

  Smith, Gov. Alfred Emanuel, 491, 502, 504, 523, 531

  Smith, Sen. Ellison DuRant (‘Cotton Ed’), 549

  Smith, Gerald L. K., 556

  Smith, Hyrum, 236

  Smith, Capt. John, 20-23, 34, 37, 38, 47, 60-61, 74, 491, 502, 504, 523, 531

  Smith, Joseph, 232-7

  Smith, Sir Thomas, 13, 24-5

  Smith-Connolly Act, 568

  Smuggling, 92, 112, 157

  and the A. Revolution, 114, 118, 130, 146

  and prohibition, 502

  Snake Creek, 69

  Snider, Christopher, 152

  Social Security Act, 541

  Social workers, 447, 465

  Socialism, 242, 389, 415, 418, 419, 421, 463, 488

  Socialist party, 459, 517

  Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1936), 538, 546-7

  Soil erosion and exhaustion, 103, 108

  Somalia, 681

  ‘Sons of Liberty’ (see also Patriots), 130, 132, 135, 136, 153, 156, 179, 265, 275

  South Africa, 430

  South America, 3, 5, 11, 450

  South Braintree, Mass., 497

  South Carolina (see also Carolinas, the)

  colony, 52, 57, 84, 85, 103, 106, 108, 118; in the A. Revolution, 131, 131n, 178, 183

  state, 196, 272, 274, 304, 426, 596, 635; and slavery, 175n, 199, 202, 283, 284, 289, 295; secession from the Union, 311; in Civil War, 343, 359; under Reconstruction, 360-61, 369

  South Dakota, 246

  South Pass, 220, 241

  South Sea see Pacific Ocean

  South, the, 183, 197, 198, 199, 205, 213n, 229, 235, 237, 243, 271, 272, 273, 274, 277, 279, 280-90, 293-314 passim, 396, 404, 443, 465

  and civil rights movement, 615-37

  in Civil War, 314-15 passim

  the Deep S., 308, 310, 311-12,627-8, 632, 635, 636, 672

  in the Depression, 513

  in the New Deal, 538-9, 547

  the New S., 350, 627

  the Old S., 286n, 287

  the S. in the Populist era, 425

  post-1918, 488, 503

  post-1945, 587

  pseudo-nationalism, 310

  Reconstruction, 347-72 passim

  the Upper S., 277, 283, 311, 313,315-16

  the ‘Solid S.’, 371, 433, 609, 625, 660-61, 674

  the S. and First World War, 469, 482

  and Second World War, 621

  South-East Asia Treaty Organization, 648

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 630, 633, 643, 675

  Southern Homestead Act, 359

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 448, 457

  Southern whites see Whites, southern

  Soviet Union (see also Russia), 499, 502, 503, 512, 558, 561, 563, 571, 612, 648, 652, 663, 680, 681

  in Second World War, 571-2, 573, 575, 58o and postwar settlement, 577, 578-82, 590

  in cold war, 584-5, 587, 590-94, 595-7, 600, 601, 609, 630-31, 646, 647, 651

  collapse of, 645, 692, 693

  and nuclear weapons, 586

  and Korean War, 606, 607

  and detente, 611

  and Vietnam War, 653

  human rights, 671, 681

  invasion of Afghanistan, 681, 690, 692

  and Nicaragua, 691

  disarmament negotiations, 692

  Space exploration, 612

  Spain, Spanish (see also Spanish-American War), 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 34, 52, 53, 55, 63, 66, 85, 110-11, 156, 203, 204, 219, 225, 241, 250, 251, 394

  and A. Revolution, 133, 165, 168, 181, 185, 1793-1820, 186-7

  Spanish Civil War, 554, 555

  Spanish America, 28, 52, 85, 102

  Speaker of the House of Representatives, 408, 456, 618, 667

  Spice-trade, 4–5

  Spies, atomic, 586, 596

  Spindletop, Texas, 392

  Spoils system (see also Patronage), 265, 267–9, 278, 301, 354, 399, 408, 410, 426

  Spotsylvania Court-House, Battle of, 340

  Springfield, Ill., 433, 620

  Springfield, Mass., 190, 193

  Spruance, Admiral Raymond, 571

  Squatters, land, 112

  Stalin, Josef, 549, 556, 561, 571, 575, 579–82, 586, 589, 590, 591, 593, 604, 605, 648

  Stalinism, 577, 600

  Stamp Act, Colonial, 153, 161

  passage through Parliament, 115–16

  provisions, 116, 143

  colonial objections to, 116–17

  resistance to, 125–32, 146

  repeal of, 132–3, 142, 192

  Stamp Act Congress, 126, 131

  Stamp Act crisis, 80, 114–34, 136, 137, 143, 144, 146, 148, 303

  Standard Oil, 389, 390, 391, 411, 424, 431, 453, 455

  Standard Oil New Jersey, 558

  Standing army, distrust of, 119, 146, 150, 152, 154, 193

  Stanford, Leiand, 423

  Stanton, Edwin, 313, 314, 321, 326, 347, 355

  ‘Star-spangled banner’, 619

  Stassen, Gov. Harold, 608

  State Department, 553, 554, 556, 563, 581, 594, 598, 599, 602, 603, 608, 611

  State, Secretaries of, 249, 255, 271, 300, 305, 553, 651, 663

  State sovereignty, 315

  States’ rights, 205, 243, 317, 335, 348, 35O, 615, 628

  r. to secede (see also Secession), 314

  Steamboats, 229, 250, 378, 379, 453

  Steel industry, 385, 390–91, 420, 445, 567

  Steerage, 396, 397–8

  Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 33
5

  Stevens, Cong. Thaddeus, 350, 355, 358, 359

  Stevenson, Gov. Adlai Ewing, 608, 612

  Stewart, James, 220

  Stilwell, Gen. Joseph Warren, 650

  Stimson, Henry Lewis, 513, 559

  Stock market, 387, 390, 446, 464, 495, 514, 688

  ‘water’, 387n

  Stone, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske, 546, 548

  Stonewall riots (1969), 677

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 285, 293, 300, 332

  Strategic Air Command, 587

  Stuart, Gen. James Ewell Brown (‘Jeb’), 336

  Stuart, house of, 76, 155, 162n

  Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 630

  Submarine warfare, 471, 473–7 passim, 474, 555

  Suburbs, 401, 494, 612, 642, 643

  Suffolk Resolves, 163

  Suffrage, black, 363

  Sugar, 83, 84, 100–101, 226

  Sugar Act, 114, 117, 16

  unpopularity of, 122, 124–5

  provisions of, 124

  and price of rum, 129

  Sumner, Sen. Charles, 285, 301, 350, 351

  beaten up, 305

  Sun Belt, 587, 595

  Sun Yat-sen, 597

  Sunbelt, 672

  Supreme Court of the United States (see also Judicial Supremacy), 211–13, 306, 308, 409, 414, 429, 455, 476, 532–4, 538, 541, 545, 568, 569, 623, 644, 665, 676, 678

  F. D. Roosevelt’s attack on, 546–8, 550

  and racial discrimination, 620, 621, 623, 624–5, 628

  Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery, 18

  Susquehanna river, 95, 95n

  Sutherland, Mr Justice George, 546

  Sweden, Swedes, 12, 95n, 108, 246, 395, 402

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 232

  Symington, Sen. Stuart, 613

  Taft, Sen. Robert Alonso, 575, 592, 594, 600, 608, 609, 686

  Taft, William Howard (Pres. 1909–31), 455, 459, 460, 463, 468, 483, 575

  Chief Justice, 546, 600

  Taft–Hartley Act, 594

  Taiwan (Formosa), 596, 651

  Tallmadge, Cong. James, 294

  Tallulah, Louisiana, 404

  Tammany Hall, 399–400, 410, 412, 414, 502

  Tammany, Saint, 399n

  Taney, Chief Justice Roger, 306

  Tariffs, 264, 271, 278, 298, 308, 340, 381, 443, 456, 492, 535–6, 553

  state, 188

  of Abominations, 295

  and Civil War, 312, 384

  and the parties, 429

  McKinley, 429

  Underwood, 461, 464, 492

  Fordney-McCumber, 492, 496, 512

  Smoot-Hawley, 512

  and New Deal, 529

  and Japan, 562

  Tarleton, Banastre, 183

  Taxation (see also Stamp Act Crisis), 45, 78, 112, 113, 142–3, 169, 358, 359, 394, 401, 402n, 423, 492, 493, 515, 670, 687

  land tax, British, 86, 143, 166

  customs, 193

  and US Constitution, 199, 203, 205, 214, 430

  income tax, federal, 212, 426, 429, 477

  New Deal and t., 528, 541 1920s, 492, 505

  as political issue, 193, 427, 429

  processing t., 537

  tax–revolt, 675

  unpopularity of in A., 189, 265, 322

  Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 447

  Taylor, Gen. Zachary (Pres. 1849–50), 297, 298–9

  Tea Act, 157–60, 303, 304

  Tea duty (see also Townshend laws), 147, 158, 192

  Teapot Dome affair, 500

  Technology (see also Industrial Revolution), 5, 220, 385, 404, 405, 423, 437, 438, 494, 554, 586, 587, 637, 655, 663

  and Civil War, 322

  Tecumseh, 55, 65, 254

  Teenagers, 679

  Tehran hostages, 682–3

  Telegraph, electric, 246, 301, 378, 394, 427, 500

  Telephones, 427, 544

  Television, 268, 595–6, 598, 603, 656–7, 659

  Temperance movement (see also Prohibition), 292, 304, 465

  Tenancy, Southern, 365–6, 396, 422, 539, 617, 618, 622

  ‘Tenement Trail’, 401

  Tennessee, 223, 226, 229, 232, 270, 271, 275, 303, 319, 349, 355, 418, 432, 504

  in Civil War, 245, 316, 325, 333, 340, 342

  Tennessee Iron and Coal Co., 445

  Tennessee river, 187, 325

  valley, 226

  Muscle Shoals, 526

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 526, 544, 558, 570, 618, 621

  Tenure of Office Act (1820), 268

  Territories see Government, territorial

  Texas, 40, 240, 241, 246, 247, 279, 296–7, 299, 305, 310, 311, 379, 380, 392, 422, 425, 433, 504, 513, 538, 587, 634, 661, 672

  Textile industry, 381, 503, 532, 616, 618

  Thailand, 648, 651

  Thames River, Battle of, 254

  Thomas, Gov. George, 59

  Thomas, Gen. George

  Henry, 342

  Thompson, Mayor William

  Hale, 503n

  Thoreau, Henry David, 285, 297, 309

  Thorfinn, Karlsefni, 3

  Three Counties see Delaware

  Thurmond, Sen. Strom, 596

  Tidewater, 145, 176, 182

  Tilden, Samuel, 369, 410

  Tilden, William T., Jr, 491

  Till, Emmett, 627

  Tillage, 10, 13

  Tillman, Sen. Benjamin

  Ryan (‘Pitchfork Ben’), 426, 428

  Timberline Lodge, 542

  Time magazine, 588, 597, 598

  Times, The, 324

  Tippecanoe, Battle of, 254, 276

  Tito, Josip Broz, 604

  Tobacco (see also Enumerated Products), 26–7, 28, 29, 82, 84, 103, 106, 108, 199, 226, 287, 380

  and Parson’s case, 123–4

  cigarettes, 616

  in Depression, 617

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 74n, 75, 233, 278, 278n

  Tojo, Gen., 563, 564

  Tokyo fire–raids, 585

  Toledo, Ohio, 464, 540

  Toleration, Act of, 91n

  Tories, American see Loyalists

  Tourism, 397

  Town–meetings, 156, 159, 176

  Towns see Cities and towns

  Townshend, Charles, 141–4, 146, 157, 303

  Townshend laws

  provisions of, 143

  resistance to, 146–51

  repeal, 151, 153, 161

  Townships, 145, 192

  Trade, 10, 13, 75, 198–9, 438, 442; First World War, munitions, 469–70; seaborne, 220, 251, 252, 254, 262, 319; world, 276, 513, 528–9

  Trade, Board of, 79, 83, 85, 90, 90n, 95, 142

  and 1763 Proclamation, 120

  Trade, triangular, 101

  Trade Agreement Act, 529

  ‘Trail of Tears’, 68, 238, 568

  Transport (see also Steamboats), 394

  air, 268

  rail see Railroads

  road, 250, 271, 494

  water, 75, 271, 290, 507

  Treasury, US, 278, 359, 429, 430, 463, 493, 577

  Secretary of, 462, 492

  Tredegar Ironworks, 334

  Trent incident, 324, 474

  Trenton, New Jersey, Battle of, 180

  Trial by jury, 103, 144, 161

  Truman, Harry S. (Pres, 1945–53), 236n, 491, 541, 569, 582, 591, 592, 594, 602, 605, 606, 607, 613, 647–8, 650, 667

  and atomic bomb, 585–6

  and blacks, 621, 623, 625

  Fair Deal, 596

  and China, 650

  and 1948 election, 596

  second term, 596–609

  passim

  quoted, 590, 602, 603, 609

  Truman Doctrine, 592, 594

  Trusts, business (see also Anti-Trust), 390

  Tryon, Gov. William, 153

  Tudor, house of, 30

  Tugwell, Rexford, 537

  Turkey, Turks (Ottoman), 5, 592

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 393

  Tuskegee I
nstitute, 372

  Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 383n

  Tweed, William Marcy, 410

  Tyler, John (Pres. 1841–5), 277, 297

  Ukraine, Ukrainians, 394

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 285, 285n, 293, 300, 332

  Unemployment, 389, 400, 416, 430, 443, 496, 511, 540, 544, 548, 556, 671, 673, 675n, 683, 687

  u. benefits, 541

  black u., 639

  in the Depression, 515, 516, 525, 529; statistics, 514

  in 1933, 540,

  relief, 515, 530, 539–42, 54

  Union, the American (see also Albany Plan), 202, 243, 279, 294, 299, 300, 301

  ‘U cause’, the, 414

  in Civil War, 317–19

  defence of, 315

  economic aspects, 319

  emergence of, 163–4, 169, 178

  A. Jackson on, 275

  A. Lincoln on, 337–8

  the North and, 310, 312

  organization, 191–2, 194, 198

  restored, 344, 364

  secession from see Secession

  the South and, 306, 307, 308, 310–11, 318

  support for, 186, 188, 195, 200, 264

  threats to, 255, 293, 295–6

  Union League, 361, 367

  Union Pacific Railroad, 384, 387

  Unions, labour see Labour unions

  Unitarianism, 130n, 291

  United Automobile Workers, 595, 634

  United Fruit Co., 610

  United Mineworkers, 531

  ‘United Nations’ (1941–5), 576, 624

  United Nations Organization (UN), 576, 581, 585, 597–8, 605, 625, 652

  charter, 652

  Universal Negro Improvement Association, 619

  Universities (see also Yale, etc.), 657–9

  Up-country see Back-country

  Urban settlement houses, 448

  Urbanization, 404, 439, 447, 491, 622

  US Forest Service, 456

  US Steel, 391, 392, 445, 459, 494, 510, 512

  US v. Butler el al., 538

  USSR see Soviet Union

  Utah, 235, 243, 297, 299, 688n

  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 235, 243, 297, 299

  Van Buren, Martin (Pres. 1837–41), 266, 269, 271–2, 274, 275–7, 279, 296, 298

  Van de Water, Frederic F., 494

  Vance, Cyrus, 680, 683

  Vance, Zebulon Baird, 335

  Vandenberg, Sen. Arthur Hendrick, 593, 594

  Vanderbilt, ‘Commodore’ Cornelius, 387, 411

  Vanderbilt, William Henry, 453

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, and Sacco, Nicola, 497–8

  Veracruz, Mexico, 468

  Vergennes, Charles, Comte de, 180

  Vermont, 118n, 231, 232, 422n, 500, 545

  Verrazano, Giovanni, 6–7

  Versailles, chateâu of, 104, 180

  Versailles conference, 480, 481–6

  Versailles, treaty of (see also Reparations question), 484, 485–8, 512, 561, 575

  Vesey, Denmark, 284

  Veterans

  of the Revolutionary war, 259

  of Civil War, 363, 385, 390, 391

  of First World War, 491, 495, 516, 525

 

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