323
Jackson, Andrew
biography of, 422-423 on challenges to federal authority, 159-160 policy impacts generally, i6i Jackson, Helen Hunt, 239 James I (King of England), 44 James II (King of England), 73, 78 Jamestown colony. See Virginia (Jamestown)
Japan, 310
Japanese American internment, 203, 305^ 320f, 319-320, 418 Jay, John, 139-140 Jazz Age
music, 295-296 portrayals of, 295 The Jazz Singer, 296 J.E.B. Stuart Memorial Window, 232 Jefferson, Thomas
on Hamilton’s economic policies, I49-I5I
on the Missouri Compromise, 158 as President, 153 on slavery, 107-109, 157 Jeremiads, 60 Jezebel, 296-297 Jim Crow laws, 203, 216-217 Johnson, Lyndon B., 340, 346-347, 352, 356-357, 362
Johnson, Maggie, 225 Johnson, Robert, 29-30, 34-35 Johnson, Samuel, 109 Johnston, Joseph E., 179 Joliet, Louis, 47 Jolson, Al, 296 Jones, Eva, 183-184 Joseph, William, 79-80 The Jungle (Sinclair), 263
Kansas, 190, 265-266 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 168, 169 Kant, Immanuel, 7
Kennedy, John F., 340-341, 342-343, 345,
355-356, 357,> 423-424 Kennedy, Robert, 357 Kent State killings, 365 Kentucky, 183
Kerner Commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders), 36if Kerner Report, 360-362 Kerouac, Jack, 340-341 Khrushchev, Nikita, 339, 342 King, Martin Luther, 338, 344-345, 348,
35i
King George’s War (War of the Austrian Succession), 83 King Philip’s War (Metacom’s Rebellion), 61-62, 72
King William’s War (War of the League of Augsburg), 83 Kipling, Rudyard, 260 Kitt, Eartha, 363f, 362-363 Knights of Labor, 235-236 Know-Nothings (American Party),
197-198, 223 Korean War, 336, 337f Korean War Memorial, 337f Kubrick, Stanley, 33if Ku Klux Klan
exploitation of tensions by, 290
formation of, 206, 209f
Goldwater support by, 349-350, 350f
rise of, post-1920, 289f, 288-289, 290
symbolism of, 289f
tactics, 206-207, 2i5f
targeting of by government agencies,
348
Labor unions
equal pay issues, 324-325
expansion of women’s opportunities in,
324-325
Ford’s actions against, 283-284 formation of, 280-281 La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul (Marquis de), i24f Land Ordinance of 1785, 131 Lane, Ralph, 23-24 Las Casas, Bartolome de, 16-18 Laughlin, Harry H., 292 Lavendar scares, 333-334 Lawes Divine, Morali and Martiall, 31 Leach, John A., 285f League of Nations, 274-275 Lee, Richard Henry, 139 Lenni Lenape (Delaware), 89 Lery, Jean de, 16-18 “Let America Be America Again”
(Hughes), 318 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (Dickinson), 97 Letters from an American Farmer (Crevecoeur), 81-82 Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer (Otis),
i0i
Leutze, Emanuel, 187 Le Voyage au Brezil de Jean de Lery (Lery), 16-18 Lewis, Sinclair, 287, 306-307 LGBT rights, 373, 374f Liberia, 164 Liberty Bonds, 27if Library Company of Philadelphia,
146-148 Light bulb invention, 297 Lincoln, Abraham
on America as hope, 177 artistic portrayals of, 246f biography of, 424-425 on blame for Civil War, 169 Civil War political strategy, 183 death of, 194
on Declaration of Independence, 170 on freedom, 137, 192-194 on immigrants, 223 on justice, 192 on liberty, 7
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 415-416 on meanings of liberty, 106 Lindburgh, Charles, 283 Little, Frank, 272
Little Big Horn, 203, 238 Little Steel formula, 324-325 Locke, John, 32-33, 77-78, 95 Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 287 Looking Backward (Bellamy), 228-229 Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment, ii6 Lost Generation writers, 287 Louisiana, 174-176, 217 Louisiana Purchase, 143-144 Love, 296-297 Loyalists, 126-128 Luce, Henry, 326-327 Luther, Martin, 14 Lynching, 209f, 22of, 217-221, 222, 337-338
Lynch Law in Georgia (Wells), 219-221
MacArthur, Douglas, 301-302 Madison, James, 139-140 The Mad Whirl, 296 Magellan, Ferdinand, 12-13 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Crane), 225 Mahan, Alfred T., 249-250, 258 Mailer, Norman, 360 Maine, 157-158 Maine, USS, 252-253 Main Street (Lewis), 287 Malcolm X, 349 Manhatten Project, 328 Manifest Destiny concept, 164, 165, 187, 24I
Mann, Michael, 2 Manteo, 24
The Man Without a Country (Hale),
3i8-3i9
Map-making, 15-16, i7f, 77-78 Mapp vs. Ohio, 352-353 March on Washington, 344f, 344-345 Market revolution
newspaper, commercial journal representation of, 184-185 overview, 184 railways. (See Railways) steamboats in, 185 Marquette, Jacques, 47 Marshall, George C., 321 Marshall Plan, 329 Maryland
Act Concerning Religion (Toleration Act) of 1649, 48-49 Battle of the Severn (1655), 49
as Border State, 183 conflicts with indigenous peoples in, 49 crown control of, 80 exploitation, conversion of indigenous peoples, 60 founding of, 48
ousting of Dominion government in, 79-8o overview, 74t
penalty for going native in, 60 reality of life in, 47 religious conflicts in, 48-49 retention of local control in, 80 slavery in generally, 66-67 Mason, John, 57 Massachusetts
Abenaki raids, 89-90 Antinomian crisis, 56, 72 Bacon’s Rebellion, 6i, 64-65 as Biblical Commonwealth, 53 Cambridge Agreement (1629), 77 change in church membership policies,
85
Charter revocation, 78 conflict in, 72 crown control of, 80 exploitation, conversion of indigenous peoples, 60, 62-63 founding of, 49-50
legislative structure, 50-51, 55, 72, 77 Mayflower Compact, 5if, 50-51 ousting of Dominion government in,
79-80 overview, 74t Puritanism, 50
religious freedom in, 55-56, 75 Salem witchcraft trials, 84-85, 86f separatist motivations of, 50, 57-58 slavery in, iii
social, economic structure, 53-55, 59 subjugation, conversion of indigenous peoples, 56-57 Massachusetts Bay Company, 77 Massachusetts Mechanic Association, i47f Mather, Cotton, 85, 87-88 Mather, Increase, 85 Mayflower Compact, 50-51, 5if Mayhew, John, 95-96 McCarthy, Joseph R., 332-333 McCarthyism (Red Scare), 330-334 McCormack, Ellen, 372f
McKinley, William assassination of, 242 currency debate, 243 McKinley at Home, 247-248 media deployment by, 247 moral stability debate, 243-245 presidential campaign, 242-243, 244f McKinley at Home, 247-248 McNamara, Robert, 356f Meat Inspection Act of 1906, 263 Medical Division, Freedmen’s Bureau, 210 Medicare, Medicaid, 358-359 Mellon, Andrew W., 233-234 Menominee Nation, 195-196 Meredith, James, 343, 351-352 Meredith March, 351-352 Metacom’s Rebellion (King Philip’s War), 61-62, 72 Mexican-Americans
incarceration of, 375-376 lynchings, 217
naturalization of in California, 196-197 Michigan, 144 Middle East, 339
Military-industrial complex development,
353-355 Minnesota
admission to Union, 144 Great Sioux Uprising (Dakota War), 191 settlement of, 190 Miranda vs. Arizona, 352-353 Mississippi
activist murders, 344-345, 347-348 African-American voting rights, 347 lynchings in, 217 Medgar Evers murder, 344-345 police brutality towards African-Americans in, 348 succession of, 174-176 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 348 Mississippi Summer Project (Freedom Summer), 347 Missouri
admission to Union, 144, 157-158 as Border State, 183 Missouri Compromise, 157-158 A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft (Hale), 85, 86f Monroe, James, 248-249 The Monroe Doctrine, 248-249
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 338 Moon landings, 364, 367 Moraley, William, 94-95 More, Thomas, 32 Morgan, J.P., 233-235 Morrison, Toni, 5 Morse, Samuel F.B., 176-177 Mott, Lucretia, 268 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 371 Murray, John (Earl ofDunmore), ii6 My Lai massacre, 365-366 Myrdal, Gunnar, 334-335
Nagasaki, Hiroshima bombings, 328, 33if Nast, Thomas, i93f, 209f, 2i3f, 240f National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), 36if National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 340 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),