American Experiment (147 page)

Schurz, Carl,
549
,
564
,
595-6

Schuyler, Gen. Philip,
81
,
433

Schuyler, Robert,
432-3

Scotch immigrants,
81
,
126

Scott, Dred,
575-8

Scott, Sir Walter,
452
,
477-8

Scott, Gen. Winfield,
213
,
426
,
446
,
461-4
,
469
,
475
,
525
,
608

secession,
140
,
201
,
217
,
261
,
328
,
598-602
,
605
; and election of 1860,
592-3
,
596-7
; and Essex Junto,
230
; and Kentucky and Virginia resolutions,
131-2
,
134
,
139
,
145
; and ratification of Constitution,
56
,
57
; and slavery issue,
261
,
329
,
473
,
591

sectionalism,
8
; economic,
86
,
270
,
589
,
598
; and foreign affairs,
103-5
,
209
; leaders in,
331
,
565
,
570
; political,
86
,
104
,
108
,
127
,
135
,
320
,
426
,
427
,
466
,
468-71
,
598-600
; and slavery issue,
242-3
,
329
,
333
,
346
,
348-9
,
459
,
464-75
,
540
,
544-54
,
570
,
574-8
,
591-7
,
599
,
602
; Webster-Hayne debate on,
327-30

Sedgwick, Theodore,
20
,
49
,
231
,
360

Sedition Act (1798),
126-33
,
138
,
139
,
141
;
see also
Alien and Sedition Acts

Seixas, Rabbi Gershom Mendes,
78
,
81

Seminole Indians,
6
,
245-6
,
247
,
332
,
452

Senate: election to,
36-7
,
61
,
68
,
362
,
381
; filibuster in,
466
; Jackson censured by,
340
,
346
,
423
; treaty ratifications in,
104
,
177
,
235
,
248
,
459
; Webster-Hayne debate in,
327-30
,
337
;
see also
Congress, U.S.

Seneca Chief
(canal boat),
303-4

Seneca Falls Convention,
401-2
,
413-14

separation of powers,
120
,
216
; in Constitution,
36
,
45
,
61
,
63
,
120
,
134-5
,
168
,
261-2
,
368-9
,
381
,
598

Sequoyah,
453

Sewall, Samuel,
127
,
218
,
229

Seward, William H.,
334
,
342
,
433
,
509
,
537
,
550
,
554
,
565
,
591
,
593-6
; as Secretary of State,
604
,
618
,
625-7

Shakers,
352-3
,
439-40

Shattuck, Job,
14

Shaw, Lemuel,
436

Shawnee Indians,
6
,
96-7
,
207

Shays, Daniel,
14
,
19-20
,
51
,
61
,
185
,
360
,
365

Shays’s Rebellion,
13-15
,
19-20
,
25
,
27
,
33
,
50-1
,
61
,
185
,
360
,
365
; reactions to,
15-19
,
97-8

Shepard, Gen. William,
19

Sherman, John,
607

Sherman, Roger,
36
,
38
,
42

Sherman, William T.,
464
,
610

Shiloh Church, Battle of,
621
,
623

shipbuilding,
75

Shippen, Dr. William, Jr.,
111
,
113

Shreve, Henry M,
300

Sidney, Sir Philip,
100

Silliman, Benjamin,
431

Simms, William Gilmore,
572

Skidmore, Thomas,
360

Slater, Samuel,
80
,
291-2
,
293
,
310

Slave, or The Memoirs of Archy Moore
(Hildreth),
522

slavery,
7
,
80
,
114
,
301
,
362
,
383
,
385-92
,
409
,
410-2
,
438
,
563
,
564
, abolition of,
25
,
114
,
142
,
350
,
620
,
625-8
; and agriculture,
274
,
275
,
282-5
,
286
,
301
,
302
; brutalization in,
142-3
,
149
,
353
,
384-5
,
392
,
574
; and Compromise of 1850,
472-5
,
522
,
543
; and Constitution,
39-40
,
366
,
465
,
520
; Dickens’s criticism of,
352
,
353
; extension of,
242-3
,
459
,
464-70
,
557
,
559
,
578
,
586
; family life under,
388-91
; fugitives from,
112
,
245
,
353
,
388
,
393
,
394
,
469-75
,
passim
,
519
,
522
,
545
,
549-50
,
558
,
605
; and liberty,
25
,
40
,
148-51
,
263
,
366
,
387
,
510
,
520
,
572-3
,
587
; plantation life under,
10
,
142-3
,
149
,
150
,
385-92
,
567-9
; population growth under,
390
; and religion,
149
,
150
,
386-7
,
391-2
,
494
; southern defense of,
573-4
; trade in,
40
,
72
,
141
,
221
,
253
,
254
,
352
,
384-5
,
388
,
390-1
,
448
,
468
,
472-3
,
568
,
574
,
589
,
601
; uprisings against,
27
,
148-51
,
73-4
,
329
,
392
,
394
,
568
,
570
,
591
,
626
;
see also
abolitionists; Missouri Compromise; sectionalism: and slavery issue; South, the

Slidell, John,
460
,
618

Smelser, Marshall,
162-3
,
166-7

Smith, Adam,
86
,
89

Smith, Caleb B.,
605

Smith, James Morton,
132

Smith, Jedediah,
455

Smith, Jeremiah,
229

Smith, Joseph,
499

Smith, Gen. Kirby,
611

Smith, Melancton,
56

Smith, Robert,
205-6
,
208

Smith, Samuel,
205

Smith, William,
111-12

societies: democratic,
98-9
; political,
137
; scientific,
111
; secret,
334

society,
347
,
357
,
383
,
438
,
439
; absence of conflict in (as theory),
434-5
; agrarian,
7
,
258
,
347
,
348
,
415
,
420
,
438
,
574
; class distinctions in,
79
,
113-16
,
143
,
221-2
,
228-9
,
348
,
349
,
354-7
,
362
,
434-5
,
451
,
498
,
506
,
510
,
511
; and individualism,
482
,
489
,
491-2
; and technology,
484-5
,
489-90
,
491-2
; urban,
78-83
,
110-15
,
415
,
see, also
American national character; lower class; man; middle class; upper class; working class

Society of the Cincinnati,
82
,
98

Sons of Liberty,
23
,
49
,
137
,
185
,
222

Soulé, Pierre,
538-9

South, the,
506-7
,
514
,
573
; agriculture in,
141
,
274-5
,
276
,
277
,
282-7
,
302
,
309
,
450-1
,
529-30
,
608
; black Americans in,
392
,
393
,
409
,
567-8
; congressional influence of,
544-5
; economic problems in,
150
,
241-2
,
274
,
529-30
,
533
,
608
; limitation of civil liberties in,
392
,
573
; politics in,
322
,
325
,
380
,
381
,
559
,
560-2
,
564
,
576-8
,
579-80
,
592-3
,
599
; slavery issue in,
39
,
242-3
,
348-9
,
465
; solidity in,
591-2
; tariff issue in,
261
,
269-70
,
328-9
,
333
,
337
,
570
;
see also
Confederate States of America; secession; sectionalism; slavery

South America,
244
,
251-2
; rebellions in,
245
,
248-9
,
252

South Carolina,
6
,
7
,
52
,
92
,
152
,
227
,
241
,
261
,
274
,
307-9
,
392
,
395
,
409
,
529
,
566-75
; in Confederacy,
597
,
601
,
605-7
,
614
; ideology of liberty in,
571-3
,
599
; nullification proposed in,
329-30
,
333
,
336-7
,
346
,
569-70
,
571
; power elite of,
570-5

South Carolina College,
567
,
569

Southwest, the,
275
,
282
,
287
,
302
,
454
;
see also
Mexican War; Spain: Southwest possessions of

Southworth, Mrs. E. D. E. N.,
517

Spain,
99-100
,
172-5
,
179
,
195
,
196-7
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
254
; and Cuba,
537-9
; and Latin America,
244
,
248-9
; negotiations with Adams,
245
,
247-8
; possession of Floridas,
7
,
173-4
,
176
,
207
,
244-8
; Southwest possessions of,
4
,
5
,
7
,
53
,
95
,
107
,
124
,
176
,
216
,
244-8
,
445

Sparks, Jared,
448

speech, freedom of,
24-5
,
55
,
90
,
91
,
372
,
511
,
519
; threats to,
125
,
131
,
226
,
392
·
573

Speed, Joshua,
557

Springfield, Ill.,
555
,
557
,
583
,
587
,
595-6
,
603

Springfield, Mass.,
19-20
,
73
,
216
,
220
,
361
,
432
,
512
,
515

Springfield
Republican
,
512
,
515

Squatter,
313

sovereignty,
see
popular sovereignty

Stagg, John,
82

Stanton, Edwin.
620

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
400-2
,
412

Staples, Sam,
486-7

Stark, Gen. John,
13

States,
68
,
94
; and Alien and SeditionActs,
131-3
; banks,
236
,
344-5
; and (U.S.) Constitution,
90
,
260
,
262
; constitutions of,
28
,
60
,
89
,
134
,
226
,
261
,
511
; debts of, assumption of,
85
; and education,
503-11
; governments of,
28
,
34
,
45
,
62-3
,
74
,
91
,
120
,
148
,
439
; internal improvements subsidized by,
307-9
,
435
,
505
; and judicial review,
193
,
577
; militias of,
74
,
201
,
210
,
214
,
215
,
236
,
258
,
358
,
392
,
446
,
452
,
453
; ratify Constitution,
42-3
,
46-59
,
89-90
,
104
,
134
,
428
; and suffrage,
364
;
see also
federalism