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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