Abenaki raids, 89-90 Abolition movement
American Colonization Society, 164 formation of, 161-162 Free Soil Party, 164, i67f Northern perspective on, 162-164 post-Civil War, 192-194 post-Revolutionary War, 131 Republicans, 164 Southern reaction to, 162, i63f Abortion rights, 372f, 371-372, 373 Abrams vs. United States, 422 Act Concerning Religion (Toleration Act) of 1649,48-49 Act of Supremacy (1534), 14 Adams, John Quincy, 153 Adams, Samuel, 139, 409-410 Addams, Jane, 262, 410-411 Afghanistan War, 377 African-Americans. See also Slavery Civil War exodus, 183-184 Civil War motivations, 195 Federal Writers Project, 306 incarceration of, 375-376 military service, WWI, 256-257, 272-273 Moynihan Report, 371 perception of as degenerate, 273 police brutality towards in Mississippi,
348
Reconstruction, voting right removal, 209f, 213-214, 216, 2I9f resettlement back to Africa, 164, 424
in United States generally, 5 voting rights in Mississippi, 347 women, denial of right to vote to,
272
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 304 Alabama, 174-176, 217, 349 Albany Plan of Union,
Albright, Madeleine, 2 Alexander VI, 12-13 Algonquians
adoption of English settlers by, 60 relationship with Jamestown settlers, 29-32 45;^ 63-65 relationship with New England settlers,
52 57-58, 89 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, 129,
I53-I54 Al Qaeda, 376-377 Altgeld, John P., 246f America First Committee, 310 American Birth Control League (ABCL),
293-294 American Century
Luce on, 326-327 overview, 7-8
universal democratization in, 327 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
294-295
American colonies. See also United States; specific colonies attitudes towards government in, 96 attitudes towards non-whites in, 109-111
American colonies (cont.)
change in church membership policies,
85
economic impact of conflict in, 97-98, 131-132 gender inequalities in, 88 imposition of slave tax by, 108 indirect democracy in, 134 individual rights concepts in, 106 inequalities in, 88
initial colonial management debate in, 93-I04
Jamestown. (See Virginia (Jamestown)) oaths of allegiance in, 128 opposition to British rule in, 119-120 original thirteen colonies, 74t, 92f “Parson’s Cause” case, 98 penalties for disloyalty in, I27f, 128 population trends in property ownership concepts in, 107 realities of life in, 83-84, 87-88 settlement expansion in, 91-93, 99f state vs. individual authority debate in, 106-109
taxation without representation in, 101 trade regulation in, 81 Virginia. (See Virginia) women’s roles in, 87 American Colonization Society, 164 American Enlightenment, 95 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 236 American gangster fantasy, 286 American Party (Know-Nothings),
197-198, 223 American Progress (Gast), 187 Americans with Disabilities Act of I990,
373
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
^y^aK 334-335, 336-337 Andros, Edmund, 78, 79-80 Anghiera, Peter Martyr, 18-19 Anglo-Dutch war (1664), 73 Anna Karenina, 296-297 Anti-communism. See Cold War Anti-Federalist papers, 386n Anti-Imperialist League, 253-255 Antinomian crisis, 56, 72 Antitrust legislation, 233-234, 235 Apollo 8, 364 Apollo 12, 367
Apollo-Soyuz Project, 367 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (Walker), 162 Arapaho Nation, 190 Arizona, Miranda vs., 352-353 Arkansas, 144, 174-176 Armed Forces
desegration of, 336, 337f draft, 279, 310
expansion, maintenance of, 324 Japanese American service in, 319-320 relationship of people with, 314 segregation, WWII, 313-314, 318, 323 Armstrong, Neil, 364 Arnold, Benedict, i67f Arsenal of Democracy, 314-316 Art Deco building, 282f Articles of Confederation, 130-131 Astaire, Fred, 33if Atomic technology, 328, 33if Attlee, Clement, 328-329 Attucks, Crispus, i02f, 117 Automobiles
boom, 1920’s, 283, 287, 297 pollution and, 342 Aztecs, 14-15
Babbit (Lewis), 287
Bacon, Nathaniel, 64-65
Bacon’s Rebellion, 6i, 64-65
Baldwin, James, 336
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 185
Barbarism threat, 211, 220f, 217-221, 222
Barlowe, Arthur, 20-22
Battle of Camden, 122, 126
Battle of Iwo Jima, 3iif, 322f, 321-322,
323
Battle of Saratoga, 124-125 Battle of the Severn, 49 Battle of Trenton, 122-123 The Beatles, 357-358 Beecher Stowe, Harriet, 169 Bell, Buck vs., 293 Bellamy, Edward, 228-229 Berkeley, George, 187 Berkeley, William, 63, 64, 73 Bicentennial celebrations
conservative counterculture, 369-370 Freedom Train, 368-369 Reagan on government, 369 The Big Money (Dos Passos), 279-280
Bill of Rights, i42-i43f, 203 Birth control, 293-294, 430-431 Black Power movement, 349. See also Civil rights movement Black scare, 333-334 Bochart de Champigny, Jean, 71-72 Booth, John Wilkes, 194 Boston labor strike, 280-281 Boston Massacre (1770), 100, io2f Boston Tea Party, 101-103 Bow, Clara, 296 Bradford, William, 57 Brattle Street Church, 85 Brave New World (Huxley), 299-300 A Briefe and True Report of the New
Found Land of Virginia (Hariot), 26f, 24-26, 27, 28f, 3 5f, 36f, 45 British Guiana, 248 Brittingham, Norman, 313-314 Brown, John, 169, 191, 265-266 Brown, William Wells, 156 Brown vs. Board of Education, 336-337 Bry, Theodor de, 16-18 Bryan, William Jennings campaign strategy, 247 presidential campaign, 242-243, 244^
245-247 as radical, 245, 246f Scopes Trial, 294-295 Buck vs. Bell, 293 Bunker Hill, battle of, 122 Burgoyne, John, 124-125 Bush, George W., 3-4, 376-377 Bushnell, Horace, 211 Butler Act challenge, 294-295
Caboto, Giovanni (John Cabot), 14-15 Calhoun, John C., 159-160, 162, i67f,
411-412 California
admission to Union, 144 Chinese immigrant naturalization in, 196, 198
Mexican naturalization in, 196-197 Calley, William, 365-366 Calvert, Cecil, 48-49 Calvert, George, 48 Calvin, John, 50 Cambodia invasion, 365 Cambridge Agreement of 1629, 77 Capital punishment, 279-280
Capone, Al “Scarface,” 286 Carmichael, Stokely, 349, 351 Carnegie, Andrew, 233-234 Carteret, George, 73 Cases ofConscience Concerning Evil Spirits (Mather), 85 Cato’s Letters (Trenchard/Gordon), 107 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
332-333, 354 A Century of Dishonor (Jackson), 239 Charles I (King of England), 44, 48, 95-96 Charles II (King of England), 72, 73 Charlestown Library Society, 148 Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad, 205-206 Cheyenne Nation, 190 Chicago, 224, 262 Chinese
California, immigrant naturalization in, 196, 198 lynchings, 217 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 198, 229-230 Churchill, Winston, 328-329 Churchyard, Thomas, 19-20 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 304 Civil Rights Act of 1875, 2i9f Civil Rights Act of 1964, 346-347 Civil Rights Cases of 1883, 2i9f Civil rights movement
activist murders, 344-345, 347-348 beginnings of, 273-274, 337-338 Black Power movement, 349 citizenship rights, 352-353 Civil War Centennial, 343-345 Commission on Civil Rights, 335-336 Freedom Rides, 343 immigration rights, 373-375. (See also Immigrants) inequality before the law, 352-353 LGBT rights, 373, 374f Little Rock school desegregation,
338-339
March on Washington, 344f, 344-345 Meredith March, 351-352 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 338 motivations, impetus for, 352 Pink, Lavendar, Black scares, 333-334 race riots, 274, 353, 36if, 360-361, 362 Selma to Montgomery March, 351, 352 voting rights, 347, 351-352