Authors: Kenneth C. Davis
Selective Service Acts, 316, 374
Selfridge, Thomas, 296
Seminole Indians, 169–71, 275
September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11), xi–xii, xiv, xv, xx, xxi, 369, 424, 527, 542, 584–85, 589–97, 503, 602–3, 605
Sequoya, 170
Serbia, 306, 310, 555
Seward, William, 202, 243
Seymour, Horatio, 250, 661
Shadrach, 203
Shakers, 180
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 591
sharecropping, 252, 353–54
Shawnee Indians, 154–55
Shays’s Rebellion, 109–11
Sheehan, Neil, 480, 496
Sheridan, Philip, 238, 239
Sherman, James S., 662
Sherman, John, 272, 282
Sherman, Roger, 95, 114
Sherman, William T., 232, 235–39, 242, 258
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 272, 297
Shinngass, Chief, 63
Shinseki, Eric, 605–6
Shorto, Russell, xxiii
Shriver, Sargent, 448
Shultz, George, 523, 527
Sihanouk, Prince, 479
Simpson, Varnado, 492
Sims, Thomas, 203
Sinatra, Frank, 447
Sinclair, Upton, 299, 454
Sioux Indians, 258–60, 262
Sirhan, Sirhan B., 477
Sirica, John, 502
Sitting Bull, 260, 262
slaves and slavery, xiii, xix, xxii; abolished, 249, 640; American Revolution and, 66, 96, 104–5; citizenship and, 214, 247, 640–41; Civil War and, 220, 229; Compromise of 1850 and, 201–3; Confederate Constitution and, 223, 224; Constitution and, 112–14, 133–34; Douglass vs., 196–99;
Dred Scott
and, 210–12; economy of South and, 189; Founding Fathers and, 133–35, 141, 150–53; freed during Civil War, 228–30, 232, 249; Fugitive Slave laws and, 202–3; Indians and, 50–51; John Brown and, 215–17; Lee on, 209–10; Lincoln-Douglas debates and, 213–15; Masons and, 124; Mexican War and, 194; Missouri Compromise and, 162–63; names of, 458, 489; Reconstruction and, 247–53; reparations and, 589; revolts by, 145, 173–74; Texas and, 179, 249; trade, 29, 37, 57, 96, 114, 162, 189, 202, 212;
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and, 203–6; Underground Railroad and, 199–200
Sloat, John, 192
smallpox, 18, 63, 529
Smith, Al, 343, 351, 663
Smith, Howard W., 456
Smith, Hyrum, 181
Smith, John, 2, 3, 24–27, 32
Smith, Joseph, 180–81
Smith, Kirby, 240
Smith, Margaret Bayard, 168
Smith, Michael J., 518
Sobell, Morton, 409, 410
socialism, 328, 349, 355
Socialist Party, 278, 301–2, 304, 316, 320
Socialist Workers Party, 494
Social Security, 614
Society of the Cincinnati, 88
Solomon, Gerald, 555
Sorensen, Theodore, 447
Sorkin, Andrew Ross, 620–22
Sotomayor, Sonia, 626
Souter, David, 573, 626
South: American Revolution and, 72, 75–76, 89; Constitution and, 113–15; Decoration Day and, 248–49; desegregation and, 427–31; economy of, 189, 221–22; Hayes and, 271; North vs., 162–64, 179, 187–90, 199–212; population of 1790, 134; Reconstruction and, 246–48, 250–53; religion and, 119–20; secession of, 218–20; slave revolts and, 173–74
South Carolina, 12, 46, 52, 75–76, 78, 86, 89, 128, 163, 173, 217, 224, 425, 644, 646
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 430, 484
Southern Homestead Act, 251
“Southern Manifesto,” 433
Soviet Union, 301, 329, 402–4, 406–10, 413–15, 422, 433–36, 443–44, 446, 452–53, 461, 517, 582–83, 596–97, 599; Afghanistan War and, 103, 533, 534, 591–92, 596; collapse of, 533–36, 539, 555; nonagression pact with Germany, 364, 375; WW II and, 363, 379, 388–92, 397–98
space program, 433–36, 517–20
Spain, 4–5, 8, 15–21, 26, 29, 40, 75, 78, 145, 161, 169, 604; Civil War in, 362–64, 371
Spanish-American War, 285–92, 450
Spence, Gerry, 577–78, 585
Spencer, George, 251
Spinks, Leon, 490
Spock, Dr. Benjamin, 401, 475, 477
spoils system, 128, 165, 167
Squanto, 32
Stalin, Joseph, 383, 386–89, 391–92, 395–98, 402, 406, 540, 567
Stamp Act, 65, 80; Congress, 83
Standard Oil, 270–71, 299, 303
Standish, Miles, 30
Stanford, Leland, 267
Stans, Maurice, 505
Stanton, Edwin, 226, 244, 249
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 334–35
Starr, Ellen Gates, 299
Starr, Kenneth, 551–52, 554
states: elections and, 130; free vs. slave, 162–64, 179, 201–2, 208–9; ratify Constitution, 112, 116, 128–31; rights, 115, 127, 222–23, 573, 629, 637; thirteen original, 45–46, 109
Statute for Religious Freedom, 124–26, 135
Steffens, Lincoln, 299
Steinbeck, John, 356
Steuben, Baron von, 74
Stevens, John, 295
Stevens, John Paul, 573
Stevens, Thaddeus, 246, 251
Stevenson, Adlai, 419, 421, 452, 460, 663
Stockman, David, 518, 520
stock market, xiii, 214, 253, 268, 323; bubble of 1990s, 557–58, 563, 566–67, 627; crash of 1929, 343–47, 564, 567; crash of 1987, 564–65, 627; crash of 2008, 618–24.
See also
economics and finances; panic
Stockton, David, 192
Stone, Oliver, xix, 459–60
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 203–5, 283, 334
Strachan, Gordon, 507
Strong, Josiah, 285–86
Stuart, J. E. B., 216
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 473, 478
Stuyvesant, Peter, 39
Sudetenland, 319, 364, 371
Suez Canal, 293, 308, 381
Sugar Act, 64–65
Sullivan, Anne, 320
Sullivan, John, 75, 92
Sumner, Charles, 246
Surratt, Mary, 244
Susquehannock Indians, 52
Sutter, Johann, 194
Sweatt
decision, 426
syphilis, xxiii, 7–8
Taft, Robert A., 361
Taft, William Howard, 295, 303–4, 662
Taino Indians, 15–16
Taliban, 596–98, 600–602
Tammany Hall, 88, 141, 268, 273–75
Taney, Roger, 211–13, 218
Tanzania, U.S. embassy attacks, 592
Tarbell, Ida M., 299
taxes, 136–37, 140, 148, 194, 514–17, 533, 543–45, 547, 559, 621, 626, 627; Articles of Confederation and, 100, 109; income, 226, 279, 304, 642; poll, 284, 614–15, 648–49; representation and, 52, 64–65, 69, 83, 111
Taylor, Elizabeth, 531
Taylor, Frederick W., 340
Taylor, Maxwell, 470
Taylor, Richard, 240
Taylor, Zachary, 191–92, 201–2, 205
Tea Party movement, 621
Teapot Dome scandal, 323, 338–39
Tecumseh, 154–57, 176
Teheran Conference, 383, 391
Tennessee, 163, 165, 218, 219, 225, 227, 572
Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, 154
Tenure of Office Act, 249
terrorism, xv, xxi, 252, 369, 444, 527, 533, 554, 580, 584–85, 590–93, 596–98, 602–5, 627–28, 636; war on, 590, 600
Tet Offensive, 475–76
Texas, 19, 42, 145, 176–79, 190–91, 194, 202, 217, 219, 249, 314, 586
Texas v. White,
253
Thatcher, Margaret, 456, 534
Thieu, President, 482
Tho, Le Duc, 479, 481–82
Thomas, Clarence, 544, 551, 573
Thomas, George H., 234
Thompson, Hugh C., 492
Thompson, William, 425
Thomson, Charles, 126
Thoreau, Henry D., 183, 194–96, 217, 352, 429
three-fifths compromise, 114, 162
Three Mile Island, 513
Tilden, Samuel J., 271, 274, 640, 654, 661
Tillman, Pat, 599–600
Tinian, 359, 384, 385
Tituba (slave), 53
tobacco, 4–5, 27, 487
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 171–72, 187, 402
Tojo, Hideki, 367
Toland, John, 367
Tompkins, Daniel D., 659
Tonkin Resolution, 466–67, 471, 497
Tower, John, 524; Commission, 524–25
Townshend Acts, 65, 66
Trail of Tears, xxvii, 168–70, 275
Transcendentalists, 180, 196
Travis, William B., 178
Treaties: Ghent, 158–60; Guadalupe Hidalgo, 193–94; Jay’s, 137, 142; Oregon, 194; Paris (1763), 63; Paris, (1782), 78, 103; Versailles, xx, 318–19, 359, 362–63, 468
Triana, Rodrigo de, 4
Tripp, Linda, 551
Trist, Nicholas P., 193
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 620
Truman, Harry S, 378, 388–89, 394–98, 404, 413–19, 422, 426, 468, 647, 663; Doctrine, 402–3, 406
trusts, 268, 271–72, 278–79, 297
Truth, Sojourner, 334
Tubman, Harriet, 200, 216, 334
Tulsa race riots, 325–27
Turner, Nat, 173–74, 217
Tuskegee Airmen, 377–78
Twain, Mark, 257, 331
Tweed, William “Boss,” 128, 273–74, 567
Tyler, John, 176, 190, 660
Underground Railroad, 199–201, 204, 334
Union Army, 195, 225–40, 244
United Arab Emirates, 591
United Auto Workers, 421
United Fruit, 423
United Mine Workers, 297, 301, 355
United Nations, 9, 302, 386, 390–92, 407, 414–19, 460, 472, 529, 540, 542, 556, 597–99, 603, 605–7
U.S. Congress: census and, 134, 585–86; design and powers of, 117–19, 130; first woman elected to, 336; pay raises of, 651; terms of assuming office, 644–46
U.S. Constitution, 82, 85–87, 111–26, 133–34, 162; Confederate vs., xxii, 222–24; Electoral College and, 129–30, 653–55; impeachment and, 118–19, 553–54; ratification, 127–31, 133–34; religion and, 119–26
U.S. Constitutional Amendments: First, 125, 132, 133, 230, 497–98, 628, 630; Second, xiii, 132, 630–31; Third, 132, 632; Fourth, 132, 577, 632; Fifth, 132, 211, 338, 409, 488, 501, 612, 633; Sixth, 133, 633–34; Seventh, 133, 634; Eighth, 133, 634–36; Ninth, 133, 636–37; Tenth, 133, 637; Eleventh, 638; Twelfth, 143, 638–40, 646, 654; Thirteenth, 247, 640; Fourteenth, 247–48, 272, 282, 612, 640; Fifteenth, 250, 640, 642; Sixteenth, 304, 642; Seventeenth, 304, 643; Eighteenth, 331–32, 643–44, 646; Nineteenth, 337, 455, 642, 644; Twentieth, 639, 644–46; Twenty-first, 630, 644, 646; Twenty-second, 153, 414, 647; Twenty-third, 647; Twenty-fourth, 648–49; Twenty-fifth, 503, 521, 649–50, 660, 664; Twenty-sixth, 650–51; Twenty-seventh, 629, 651
U.S. House of Representatives: creation of, 114, 116; District of Columbia and, 648; Judiciary Committee, 482, 504–6, 509, 550, 553; presidential elections and, 129, 142, 164–65, 638–39, 646, 654; states’ seats in, 134, 162, 585–86; terms, 644–45; Un-American Activities Committee, 407, 411
U.S. Senate: creation of, 114, 116; direct election of, 304, 643; Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 502, 503
U.S. Supreme Court, xiii, xxv, 117, 124, 135, 143–44, 170, 210–11, 214–15, 223, 272, 277, 282–83, 304, 316, 425–28, 430, 432, 480, 488, 490, 497–99, 506,
U.S. Supreme Court, (
cont.
)
544, 570–75, 611, 612–14, 626–28, 630–32, 636, 637, 641, 642; FDR packs, 356–59; powers of, 118–19
United States v. Miller,
631
Upham, James B., 264
USA PATRIOT Act, 597–98
Utah, 181, 193, 202
U Thant, 472
Valley Forge, xvii, 49, 74, 75, 85, 121
Van Buren, Martin, 169, 175–76, 179, 190, 201, 273, 540, 660
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 268
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 327–28, 342
Venezuela, 16, 512
Venona traffic, 409, 410
Vergennes, Comte de, 102
Vermont, 85, 163, 613
Verrazano, Giovanni de, 11
Vesey, Denmark, 173
Vespucci, Amerigo, 14–15, 17
Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, 382