Abolition, 318, 331

Adams, Abigail, 556

Adams, John, 97, 128, 179f.

Adams, J.Q., 247, 319

Adams, Samuel, 90, 99, 108

Adamson law, 590

Aguinaldo, 497

Alabama, admission, 227

Alabama claims, 480

Alamance, battle, 92

Alamo, 280

Alaska, purchase, 479

Albany, plan of union, 62

Algonquins, 57

Alien law, 180

Amendment, method of, 156

Amendments to federal Constitution: first eleven, 163
twelfth, 184 note
thirteenth, 358
fourteenth, 366, 369, 387
fifteenth, 358
sixteenth, 528
seventeenth, 542
eighteenth, 591
nineteenth, 563f.

American expeditionary force, 610

American Federation of Labor, 573, 608

Americanization, 585

Amnesty, for Confederates, 383

Andros, 65

Annapolis, convention, 144

Antietam, 357

Anti-Federalists, 169

Anti-slavery. See Abolition

Anthony, Susan, 564

Appomattox, 363

Arbitration: international, 480 514, 617
labor disputes, 582

Arizona, admission, 443

Arkansas, admission, 272

Arnold, Benedict, 114, 120

Articles of Confederation, 110, 139ff., 146

Ashburton, treaty, 265

Assembly, colonial, 49f., 89f.

Assumption, 164f.

Atlanta, 361

Australian ballot, 540


Bacon, Nathaniel, 58

Ballot: Australian, 540
short, 544

Baltimore, Lord, 6

Bank: first U.S., 167
second, 203, 257ff.

Banking system: state, 300
U.S. national, 369
services of, 407
See also Federal reserve

Barry, John, 118

Bastille, 172

Bell, John, 341

Belleau Wood, 611

Berlin decree, 194

Blockade: by England and France, 193f.
Southern ports, 353
law and practice in 1914, 598f.

Bond servants, 13f.

Boone, Daniel, 28, 218

Boston: massacre, 91
evacuation, 116
port bill, 94

Bowdoin, Governor, 142

Boxer rebellion, 499

Brandywine, 129

Breckinridge, J.C., 340

Bright, John, 355

Brown, John, 338

Brown University, 45

Bryan, W.J., 468f., 495, 502, 503, 527

Buchanan, James, 335, 368

Budget system, 529

Bull Run, 350

Bunker Hill, 102

Burgoyne, General, 116, 118, 130

Burke, Edmund, 87, 96ff., 132, 175

Burr, Aaron, 183, 231

Business. See Industry


Calhoun, J.C., 198f., 203, 208, 281, 321, 328

California, 286f.

Canada, 61, 114, 530

Canals, 233, 298, 508

Canning, British premier, 206

Cannon, J.G., 530

Cantigny, 611

Caribbean, 479

Carpet baggers, 373

Cattle ranger, 431f.

Caucus, 245

Censorship. See Newspapers

Charles I, 3

Charles II, 65

Charleston, 36, 116

Charters, colonial, 2ff., 41

Chase, Justice, 187

Château-Thierry, 611

Checks and balances, 153

Chesapeake, the, 195

Chickamauga, 361

Child labor law, 591

China, 447, 499ff.

Chinese labor, 583

Churches, colonial, 39f., 42, 43

Cities, 35, 36, 300f., 395, 410, 544

City manager plan, 545

Civil liberty, 358f., 561

Civil service, 419, 536, 538f.

Clarendon, Lord, 6

Clark, G.R., 116, 218

Clay, Henry, 198, 203, 248, 261, 328

Clayton anti-trust act, 489

Clergy. See Churches

Cleveland, Grover, 421, 465, 482, 484, 489, 582

Clinton, Sir Henry, 119

Colorado, admission, 441

Combination. See Trusts

Commerce, colonial, 33f.
disorders after 1781, 140
Constitutional provisions on, 154
Napoleonic wars, 176, 193ff.
domestic growth of, 307
congressional regulation of, 460f., 547
See also Trusts and Railways

Commission government, 544

Committees of correspondence, 108

Commonsense, pamphlet, 103

Communism, colonial, 20.

Company, trading, 2f.

Compromises: of Constitution, 148, 150, 151
Missouri, 325, 332
of 1850, 328f.
Crittenden, 350

Conciliation, with England, 131

Concord, battle, 100

Confederacy, Southern, 346f.

Confederation: New England, 61.
See also Articles of

Congregation, religious, 4

Congress: stamp act, 85
continental, 99f.
under Articles, 139.
under Constitution, 152
powers of, 153

Connecticut: founded, 4ff.
self-government, 49
See also Suffrage, constitutions, state

Conservation, 523f.

Constitution: formation of, 143f.
See also Amendment

Constitution, the, 200

Constitutions, state, 109f., 238f., 385f.

Constitutional union party, 340

Contract labor law, 584

Convention: 1787, 144f.
nominating, 405

Convicts, colonial, 15

Conway Cabal, 120

Cornwallis, General, 116, 119, 131

Corporation and labor, 571 See also Trusts

Cotton. See Planting system

Cowboy, 431f.

Cowpens, battle, 116

Cox, J.M., 619

Crisis, The, pamphlet, 115

Crittenden Compromise, 350

Cuba, 485f., 518

Cumberland Gap, 223

Currency. See Banking


Danish West Indies, purchased, 593

Dartmouth College, 45

Daughters of liberty, 84

Davis, Jefferson, 346f.

Deane, Silas, 128

Debs, E.V., 465, 534

Debt, national, 164f.

Decatur, Commodore, 477

Declaration of Independence, 101f.

Defense, national, 154

De Kalb, 121

Delaware, 3, 49

De Lome affair, 490

Democratic party, name assumed, 260
See also Anti-Federalists

Dewey, Admiral, 492

Diplomacy: of the Revolution, 127f.
Civil War, 354

Domestic industry, 28

Donelson, Fort, 361

Dorr Rebellion, 243

Douglas, Stephen A., 333, 337, 368

Draft: Civil War, 351
World War, 605

Draft riots, 351

Dred Scott case, 335, 338

Drug act, 523

Duquesne, Fort, 60

Dutch, 3, 12


East India Company, 93

Education, 43f., 557, 591

Electors, popular election of, 245

Elkins law, 547

Emancipation, 357f.

Embargo acts, 186f.

England: Colonial policy of, 64f.
Revolutionary War, 99f.
Jay treaty, 177
War of 1812, 198f.
Monroe Doctrine, 206
Ashburton treaty, 265
Civil War, 354
Alabama claims, 480
Samoa, 481
Venezuela question, 482
Spanish War, 496
World War, 596f.

Erie Canal, 233

Esch-Cummins bill, 582

Espionage act, 607

Excess profits tax, 606

Executive, federal, plans for, 151

Expunging resolution, 260


Farm loan act, 589

Federal reserve act, 589

Federal trade commission, 590

Federalist, the, 158

Federalists, 168f., 201f.

Feudal elements in colonies, 21.

Filipino revolt. See Philippines

Fillmore, President, 485

Finances: colonial, 64
revolutionary, 125f.
disorders, 140
Civil War, 347, 352ff.
World War, 606
See also Banking

Fishing industry, 31

Fleet, world tour, 515

Florida, 134, 204

Foch, General, 611

Food and fuel law, 607

Force bills, 384ff., 375

Forests, national, 525f.

Fourteen points, 605

Fox, C.J., 132

France: colonization, 59f.
French and Indian War, 60f.
American Revolution, 116, 123, 128f.
French Revolution, 165f.
Quarrel with, 180
Napoleonic wars, 193f.
Louisiana purchase, 190
French Revolution of 1830, 266
Civil War, 354
Mexican affair, 478
World War, 596f.

Franchises, utility, 548

Franklin, Benjamin, 45, 62, 82, 86, 128, 134

Freedmen. See Negro

Freehold. See Land

Free-soil party, 319

Frémont, J.C., 288, 334

French. See France

Friends, the, 5

Frontier. See Land

Fugitive slave act, 329

Fulton, Robert, 231, 234

Fundamental articles, 5

Fundamental orders, 5


Gage, General, 95, 100

Garfield, President, 416

Garrison, William Lloyd, 318

Gaspee, the, 92

Gates, General, 116, 120, 131

Genêt, 177

George I, 66

George II, 4, 66, 82

George III, 77f.

Georgia: founded, 4
royal province, 49
state constitution, 109
See also Secession

Germans: colonial immigration, 9ff.
in Revolutionary War, 102f.
later immigration, 303

Germany: Samoa, 481
Venezuela affair, 512
World War, 596

Gerry, Elbridge, 148

Gettysburg, 362

Gibbon, Edward, 133

Gold: discovery, 288
standard, 466, 472

Gompers, Samuel, 573, 608

Governor, royal, 49f.

Grandfather clause, 386.

Grangers, 460f.

Grant, General, 361, 416, 480, 487

Great Britain. See England

Greeley, Horace, 420

Greenbacks, 454f.

Greenbackers, 462f.

Greene, General, 117, 120

Grenville, 79f.

Guilford, battle, 117


Habeas corpus, 358

Hague conferences, 514

Haiti, 593

Hamilton, Alexander, 95, 143, 158, 162, 168f., 231

Harding, W.G., 389, 619

Harlem Heights, battle, 114

Harper's Ferry, 339

Harrison, Benjamin, 422, 484

Harrison, W.H., 198, 263f.

Hartford convention, 201f., 238

Harvard, 44

Hawaii, 484.

Hay, John, 477, 500ff.

Hayne, Robert, 256