Penguin History of the United States of America (137 page)

Debt, National,
189
,
258
,
259
,
385
,
506

Debtors and creditors in Britain,
114

in 18th-c. Virginia,
108
,
123–4
,
189

and US Constitution,
208

in Kentucky,
270

in post-bellum South (
see
also
Peonage
),
365–6

and Populism,
425

and Depression,
511

Debts, state,
259
,
368

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,
174

Declaration of Independence,
195
,
213
,
219
,
256
,
264
,
276
,
288
,
312

and anti-slavery,
306

and Gettysburg Address,
338

making of,
174–5

natural law in,
123

in the Revolution,
178

significance of,
175–8
,
319

quoted
,
135
,
175–6

Declaratory Act,
133
,
134

Defense, Department of (
see also
Pentagon
),
588
,
665

Defense, Secretary of,
587

Delaware,
52
,
201

colony (‘Three Counties’),
95
,
101

in A. Revolution,
131
,
159

and anti-slavery,
179

Delaware river,
35
,
95
,
180

Democracy in America
,
233

quoted
,
278

Democracy, American,
207
,
209
,
258
,
268
,
273
,
277
,
348
,
425
,
476
,
528
,
549
,
550
,
557
,
615
,
667
,
693
,
694

majority rule in,
313
,
315
,
366

G. Myrdal on,
629

Democratic National Committee,
665

Democratic party (
see also
Copperheads
;
Democrats, Southern
;
Elections
;
Jacksonian party
),
236
,
241
,
266
,
272
,
274
,
275–9
,
297–311
passim
,
409
,
454
,
456
,
489
,
522
,
591
,
597
,
610
,
671–2
,
673
,
674
,
675
,
683
,
684
,
685

in Civil War,
326

during Reconstruction,
354–5
,
357
,
363
,
367
,
369–70

in Gilded Age,
410
,
413
,
414
,
426
,
430–33

in Progressive era,
457–61
,
464

and First World War,
482
,
483

and Versailles treaty,
488

during 1920s,
500–501
,
512

in the Depression,
513
,
517
,
535

in the New Deal,
524
,
528
,
535
,
540
,
544–5
,
546–8

in Second World War,
559
. 569

and blacks,
621
,
625
,
630

and abortion issue,
680

Democrats, Southern,
461
,
547–9
,
553
,
587
,
618

Dixiecrats,
596
,
625

Dempsey, Jack,
491

Denver, Colorado,
62
,
248

Depression, Great (
see also
Business cycle
),
190n
,
383
,
486n
,
492
,
510–48
,
555
,
588n
,
593
,
685

origins of,
505–11

in the South,
617–18

ended by rearmament,
559

Deregulation,
686
,
689

Desegregation (
see also
Integration
;
Segregation
),
622
,
633

of armed services,
622–3
,
625
,
626

of education,
624
,
626–8
,
635
,
639–40

of lunch-counters etc.,
629–30
,
635

in Second World War,
623–4

Detroit, Michigan,
494
,
508
,
637

blacks in,
616
,
624

Fort D.,
187
,
260

Dewey, Admiral George,
440

Dewey, Gov. Thomas Edmund,
595

Dickinson, John,
148
,
162
,
174
,
175
,
195
,
201
,
256

quoted
,
71
,
147–8

Diem, Ngo Dinh,
649
,
650

Dienbienphu,
648

Dillingham, William P.,
405

D. Report,
405
,
496

Disease,
5
,
8
,
22
,
23
,
55
,
58
,
101
,
395n

AIDS,
678

cholera,
58
,
396

diphtheria,
416

dysentery,
22

hookworm,
617

malaria,
5
,
22
,
617

in military hospitals,
328

pellagra,
366
,
617

plague, bubonic,
22

scurvy.
22
,
128

smallpox,
5
,
8
,
58
,
91
,
92
,
101
,
416

tuberculosis,
55
,
419

typhoid,
416

venereal d.,
58
,
656

yellow fever,
5
,
22
,
108
,
250
,
441
,
442
,
617

Dismal Swamp,
27

District of Columbia (
see also
Washington, DC
)

abolition of slave-trade in,
299

abolition of slavery in,
324

Divide, Continental,
238
,
241

Divorce,
677

‘Dixie’,
310

Dodge City, Kansas,
242
,
379

Dollar, US
see
Currency

Dolliver, Sen. Jonathan Prentiss,
456

Dominican Republic,
603

Donnelly, Ignatius,
427

Donovan, Hedley,
684n

Douglas, Sen. Stephen Arnold,
243
,
299–300
,
301–4
,
306–11
,
318

‘Western Programme’ of,
301

Douglass, Frederick,
283
,
284
,
293
,
332
,
348

quoted
,
217
,
280
,
283
,
284
,
328

Dowdeswell, William,
158
,
162

Downing, Emanuel,
87

Drake, Sir Francis,
6
,
7
,
12

Drayton, Michael, ,
quoted
,
14
,
19

Dred Scott
v.
Sanford
,
212
,
295
,
306
,
307
,
353
,
409

Drew, David,
387

Drug abuse,
694

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt,
619

Dubinsky, David,
535

Dubuque, Iowa,
490

Dulles, Alan,
610

Dulles, John Foster,
594
,
609
,
610
,
611
,
648

Dumbleton, J.,
89

Dumbrell, John,
679n

Dust-storms,
538

Dutch people, the (
see also
Netherlands
),
8
,
28
,
35
,
43
,
52
,
81–2
,
182
,
394

Dutch West India Company,
35

Dyer, Eliphalet, no Dylks, Joseph,
232

Early, Gen. Jubal Abderson,
341

East India Company,
13
,
75
,
101
,
141
,
142
,
158–9
,
160
,
161

East St Louis,
111
.,
478–9

Eddy, Mary Baker,
233–4

Eden, Anthony,
581

Edes, Benjamin, I3on Edison, Thomas A.,
378
,
448
,
509

Education,
192
,
291
,
588
,
675n
,
678
,
688

post-1945,
657

black,
352
,
362
,
366
,
372
,
415
,
638
; Operation Headstart,
639

inequality in,
639

parish schools,
401

public,
362
,
414

Education Act 1965, Elementary and Secondary,
639

Education, US Office of,
623
,
635

Edwards, Rev. Jonathan,
91

Egypt,
611
,
666
,
670

Eirik’s Saga
,
3

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight David (Pres. 1953–61),
541
,
573
,
600
,
607
,
608–14
,
626
,
627
,
628
,
630
,
631
,
632
,
640
,
648–9
,
662
,
684
,
685

quoted
,
611
,
622n

El Salvador,
691

Elections

in colonial A.,
45
,
105
,
145–6

and machine politics,
400–401

national e.,
609

in Northern army,
318

primary, white
see
White primary

Electoral college,
209
,
271
,
370
,
429

Electoral reform,
457–8

Electricity industry,
390
,
391
,
526

Elijah Mohammad,
638–9

Eliot, Rev. Andrew,
152n
,
162

Eliot, Rev. John,
63

Elizabeth I, Queen,
7
,
12
,
30
,
31–2
,
291

Elkins Act,
452

EUsberg, Daniel,
665

Emancipation Proclamation,
179n
,
327–8
,
330–32
,
333
,
338
,
350
,
633

Embargoes,
260

in 1807–9,
253

in the Civil War,
322
,
329
,
335

and Second World War,
563

Arab oil e.,
666

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
165
,
285
,
291
,
300
,
686–7

Engineering industry,
611

England, English (
see also
Britain
;
British Empire
),
8
,
20
,
21
,
22
,
26
,
27
,
40–42
,
45–9
,
62
,
66
,
87
,
89
,
92
,
93
,
94
,
103n
,
106
,
108
,
111n
,
118
,
119
,
127
,
183n
,
188
,
204
,
235
,
240
,
250–56
passim
,
269
,
281
,
282–3
,
287
,
307
,
319
,
324
,
325
,
334
,
394
,
402
,
411
,
419
,
469
,
483

exploration of North A.,
6–7

on eve of colonization,
10–18

Puritanism in,
29–34

colonial expansion,
29–34

racial attitudes,
64

the realm denned,
76n

B. Franklin on,
80

and mercantile system,
84

and slave-trade,
100–101

riots in,
114
,
129n

and war in A. Revolution,
168

and Andrew Jackson,
184

in industrial A.,
417n

Enlightenment, the,
177

Enumerated products,
82–3

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
689

Environmentalism,
689
,
694

Episcopalianism, Episcopalians
(see also
Church of England
),
31
,
91
,
96
,
105
,
145