American Experiment (278 page)

see also
elections and campaigns

Dempsey, Jack,
530
,
531
,
532

Depcw, Chauncey,
358

depressions:

post-Civil War,
74–5

1893,
226

“Great,”
543–7
,
555–7
; measures in response to,
547–55

deserters (in Civil War),
8
,
15
,
29

Destler, Chester,
166

Detroit, Mich.,
272–3

Devlin, Lord,
412
,
425
,
426

Dewey, Comm. George,
238

Diggins, Jack,
536

Diggs, Annie,
185

Dingell tariff bill (1897),
234

diplomatic corps, strengthening of,
222

disarmament,
493–5

distribution of wealth,
140
,
142–3
,
192

Dix, Dorothea,
27

Dobriansky, Lev,
304

domestic science,
121
,
261

domestic servants,
121
,
139–40

Dominican Republic,
403
,
498

Donahue, Peter,
259–60

Donald, David,
32
,
206

Donnelly, Ignatius,
167
,
189
,
241

Dooley, Mr.,
222
,
287
,
330
,
345
,
354
,
363

Doolittle. James R.,
51

Dos Passos, John,
536–7
,
538
,
552

Douglass, Frederick,
208
,
234

draft, military:

in Civil War: Confederate,
14–15
,
23
; Union,
14-15

in World War I,
427–8

Dreiser, Theodore,
316–19
,
322–3

Drew, Daniel,
91–2

Dreyfus Affair,
450

drugs, labeling of,
348

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt,
285
,
522

Dunne, Finley Peter (Mr. Dooley),
222
,
287
,
330
,
345
,
354
,
363

Durant, Thomas C,
96

Duryea, Charles and Frank,
290

Eads, Capt. James,
80–1
,
103

Eakins, Thomas,
309

Early, Gen. Jubal A.,
28

Eastman, George,
81

Eastman, Max,
313–14

Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, An
(Beard),
299–301

economic power, concentrated:

Brandeis on,
392

as challenge to democracy,
389–95
,
532–8

Croly on,
393

Progressive party on,
374

Roosevelt (T.) and,
331–3
,
349–52

Wilson and,
389–91

economic situation and conditions:

1850s,
20
,
73
,
74

Civil War period,
15–16
,
17–18
,
19–20

late 1860s,
73–5

1893,
226

in World War I,
428–31

1920s,
540–1
;
see also
depressions: “Great”

Edgerton, John E.,
548–9

Edison, Thomas Alva,
82
,
84–5
,
108–9
,
198
,
251

education:

for blacks,
63–4
,
68
,
133–4

business and,
513

1920s,
511–15

and technological innovation,
82

eight-hour workday:

campaign for,
176
,
177
,
178

for railroad workers,
421
,
429

Ekirch, Roger,
387

elections and campaigns, congressional:

1866,
49
,
51

1868,
59

1874,
67

1878,
208

1888–94,
227–8

1890,
186

1918,
454

1924,
501

1930,
551

elections and campaigns, presidential:

1864,
303

1868,
58–9
,
194–5

1872,
207

1876,
67
,
200
,
201–2

1884,
210–11
,
224

1892,
190
,
225–6

1896,
229–33
,
367

1900,
241

1904,
338–4
,
368

1908,
367
,
368

1912,
359–63
,
370–7

1916,
419–21

1920,
470–4

1924,
499–501

1928,
487
,
502–3

1932,
554–5
,
558

elections and campaigns, state:

1890,
186

1892,
190

electricity,
82
,
83
,
289

alternating current standardized,
108

Elements of Political Economy (Wayland),
155

elevated transit lines (“els”),
250

elevator, electric,
108
,
251

elite classes,
113–19

Ellis, L. Ethan,
492

Elmer Gantry (Lewis),
536

Emancipation Proclamation (1863),
8
,
21–2
,
34

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
17–18

on individual liberty,
153

on the West,
96–7

Emery, Sarah,
185

employment,
see
children: in labor force; unemployment; women: in labor force

Enforcement Act (1870),
66

Engels, Friedrich,
75–6

Communist Manifesto
,
75
,
90
,
174
,
259
,
308

German Ideology, The
,
75
,
260

and IWW,
174

England,
see
Great Britain

Equality
(Bellamy),
164–6

Erdman Act (1898),
234
,
488–9

Erie Railroad,
91–3

Espionage Act (1917),
440

ethnic/racial caste system,
145–51
;
see also
classes (social) and class system

Evarts, William M.,
57
,
161

Everett, Edward,
4
,
5

family size,
122–3

Faraday, Michael,
83

Far East,
221
,
495

see also
China; Japan; Korea; Philippines

Farley, James A.,
554

farmers,
127–36

in Depression,
543–4

Harding Administration and,
490

indebtedness of,
129
,
130
,
543

political organizations of,
180–91
,
209

radio and,
523

southern;
131–6
; black,
131–4
; white,
134–6

western,
129–31
,
181

wives of,
127–8

see also
agriculture

Farmers’ Alliance,
182–4
;
see also
National Farmers’ Alliance and Cooperative Union

farm machinery,
81
,
129

farm prices, stabilization of,
490

Farragut, Adm. David,
34
,
51

fashions, for women,
287
,
289

Fass, Paula,
513

Federal Reserve system,
387–8
,
391
,
418

Federal Trade Commission,
391
,
418

Federal Trade Commission Act (1914),
389

Federation of Women’s Clubs,
262

Field, Marshall,
114

Field, Stephen J.,
204

Filler, Louis,
347–8

films,
524–7

Fish, Hamilton,
220

Fisk, James,
92
,
93

Fiske.John,
161
,
162
,
295

Fitzgerald, Annie,
280

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott,
483
,
537

Fitzgerald, John “Honey Fitz,”
385

five-day workweek,
144

Flagg, James Montgomery,
439

Flexner, Eleanor,
445

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley,
323
,
324

Flynt, Josiah,
345

Foch, Gen. Ferdinand,
433
,
437

Foner, Philip,
236

food:

labeling of,
348

shortages of, after World War I,
469

in World War 1,
414
,
428

football,
528–9

Foraker, Joseph B.,
206
,
237

Forbes, John Murray,
87

Ford, Ford Madox,
318

Ford, Henry,
418
,
480–4
,
544

character and personality of,
483

control by,
480–2

on vagabonds,
557

and Wilson,
483

and workers,
481–2

foreign affairs:

corporations and,
222

late 19th century,
219–22

in Lincoln Administration,
31–2

in McKinley Administration,
236–41

1920s,
492–6
; economic aspects,
496–9

in Roosevelt (T.) Administration,
336–45

in Wilson Administration,
399–406
,
418

see also
League of Nations; World War I;
and specific countries

Foster, William Z.,
552

Founding Fathers,
see
Framers of Constitution

Fourier, Charles,
173

Fourteenth Amendment,
49
,
50
,
53
,
60
,
303–4
,
505

Framers of Constitution,
204
,
301

and protection of minority rights,
487–8
,
499
,
503
,
504

France:

and Germany (after World War I),
450
,
456
,
496
,
497

and World War I,
407–8
,
427–8

Frank, Waldo,
314

Frankfurter, Felix,
419
,
434
,
506
,
537–8

Franklin, Benjamin,
154

Fredericksburg (Va.), battle of,
8
,
25

Freedmen’s Bureau,
49

freedom,
see
liberty

freed people:

abuse of,
50

attitudes of,
38–41

education of,
63–4

and land distribution,
64–5

life of, in South,
67–71

political and civil rights of,
46
,
47
,
48–9
,
52
;
see also
black Americans: suffrage of

free love,
126

Frémont, Gen. John C,
32

Freud, Sigmund,
124
,
307

on Wilson,
365

Frick, Henry Clay,
78
,
103
,
275
,
350

and Homestead (Pa.) violence,
224–6

home of (“Clayton”),
141

and League of Nations,
458

Frost, Robert,
556

furnishing merchants,
135–6
,
181

Galbraith, John Kenneth,
542

Gardener, Helen,
446

Gardner, Isabella Stewart (Mrs. Jack),
115

Garfield, James A.,
52
,
198–9

Garland, Hamlin,
288

Garraty, John,
107
,
176

Garrison, Lindley M.,
385

Gary, Elbert H.,
350

Gates, William B.,
86

General Managers Association,
227

George, Alexander and Juliette,
365
,
374

George, Henry,
101
,
162–3

and Bellamy and Lloyd, compared,
167–8

Progress and Poverty
,
163

George, Henry, Jr.,
402

German Ideology, The
(Marx and Engels),
75
,
260

Germany, in World War I,
407
,
423–4
,
432–4

reparations,
496–7

U.S and,
424–6
,
433–4
,
435

Geronimo (Apache leader),
218
,
219

Gettysburg (Pa.), battle of,
5
,
11–12

Gettysburg Address (Lincoln),
3–6
,
557

Gibbs, Josiah Willard,
81
,
290

Gibson, Charles Dana,
287

Gies, Joseph and Frances,
110

Gillette, William,
69

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
123
,
124
,
442

Girard, Stephen,
88

Gitlow, Benjamin,
505

Glaab, Charles,
265

Glad, Paul,
229

Gladden, Washington,
167

Glass, Carter,
387

Glynn, Martin,
420

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence,
70
,
159
,
207
,
269