Hays, President, 416.

Henry, Patrick, 85

Hepburn act, 523

Hill, James J., 429

Holland, 130

Holy Alliance, 205

Homestead act, 368, 432

Hooker, Thomas, 5

Houston, Sam, 279f.

Howe, General, 118

Hughes, Charles E., 602

Huguenots, 10

Hume, David, 132

Hutchinson, Anne, 5


Idaho, admission, 442

Income tax, 459, 466, 528, 588, 606

Inheritance tax, 606

Illinois, admission, 226

Illiteracy, 585

Immigration: colonial, 1-17
before Civil War, 302, 367
after Civil War, 410f.
problems of, 582f.

Imperialism, 494f., 498., 502f.

Implied powers, 212

Impressment of seamen, 194

Indentured servants, 13.

Independence, Declaration of, 107

Indiana, admission, 226

Indians, 57f., 81, 431

Industry: colonial, 28f.
growth of, 296f.
during Civil War, 366
after 1865, 390f., 401f., 436f., 559
See also Trusts

Initiative, the, 543

Injunction, 465, 580

Internal improvements, 260, 368

Interstate commerce act, 461, 529

Intolerable acts, 93

Invisible government, 537

Iowa, admission, 275

Irish, 11, 302

Iron. See Industry

Irrigation, 434f., 523f.


Jackson, Andrew, 201, 204, 246, 280

Jacobins, 174

James I, 3

James II, 65

Jamestown, 3, 21

Japan, relations with, 447, 511, 583

Jay, John, 128, 158, 177

Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration of Independence, 107
Secretary of State, 162f.
political leader, 169
as President, 183f.
Monroe Doctrine, 206, 231

Jews, migration of, 11

Johnson, Andrew, 365, 368, 371.

Johnson, Samuel, 132

Joliet, 59

Jones, John Paul, 118

Judiciary: British system, 67
federal, 152


Kansas, admission, 441

Kansas-Nebraska bill, 333

Kentucky: admission, 224
Resolutions, 182

King George's War, 59

King Philip's War, 57

King William's War, 59

King's College (Columbia), 45

Knights of Labor, 575f.

Kosciusko, 121

Ku Klux Klan, 382


Labor: rise of organized, 304
parties, 462f.
question, 521
American Federation, 573f.
legislation, 590
World War, 608f.

Lafayette, 121

La Follette, Senator, 531

Land: tenure20f.
sales restricted, 80
Western survey, 219
federal sales policy, 220
Western tenure, 228
disappearance of free, 445
new problems, 449
See also Homestead act

La Salle, 59

Lawrence, Captain, 200

League of Nations, 616f.

Le Bœuf, Fort, 59

Lee, General Charles, 131

Lee, R.E., 357

Lewis and Clark expedition, 193

Lexington, battle, 100

Liberal Republicans, 420

Liberty loan, 606

Lincoln: Mexican War, 282
Douglas debates, 336.
election, 341
Civil War, 344f.
reconstruction, 371

Literacy test, 585

Livingston, R.R., 191

Locke, John, 95

London Company, 3

Long Island, battle, 114

Lords of trade, 67f.

Louis XVI, 171f.

Louisiana: ceded to Spain, 61
purchase, 190f.
admission, 227

Loyalists, See Tories

Lusitania, the, 601f.


McClellan, General, 362, 365

McCulloch vs. Maryland, 211

McKinley, William, 422, 467ff., 489f.

Macaulay, Catherine, 132

Madison, James, 158, 197ff.

Maine, 325

Maine, the, 490

Manila Bay, battle, 492

Manors, colonial, 22

Manufactures, See Industry

Marbury vs. Madison, 209

Marietta, 220

Marion, Francis, 117, 120

Marquette, 59

Marshall, John, 208f.

Martineau, Harriet, 267

Maryland, founded, 6, 49, 109, 239, 242

Massachusetts: founded, 3ff.
See also Immigration, Royal province, Industry, Revolutionary War, Constitutions, state, Suffrage, Commerce, and Industry

Massachusetts Bay Company, 3
founded, 3ff.
See also Immigration, Royal province

Mayflower compact, 4

Mercantile theory, 69

Merchants. See Commerce

Merrimac, the, 353

Meuse-Argonne, battle, 612

Mexico: and Texas, 278f.
later relations, 594.

Michigan, admission, 273

Midnight appointees, 187

Milan Decree, 194

Militia, Revolutionary War, 122

Minimum wages, 551

Minnesota, admission, 275

Mississippi River, and West, 189.

Missouri Compromise, 207, 227, 271, 325, 332

Molasses act, 71

Money, paper, 80, 126, 155, 369

Monitor, the, 353

Monroe, James, 204f., 191

Monroe Doctrine, 205, 512

Montana, admission, 442

Montgomery, General, 114

Morris, Robert, 127

Mothers' pensions, 551

Mohawks, 57

Muckraking, 536.

Mugwumps, 420

Municipal ownership, 549


Napoleon I, 190

Napoleon III: Civil War, 354.
Mexico, 477

National Labor Union, 574

National road, 232

Nationalism, colonial, 56f.

Natural rights, 95

Navigation acts, 69

Navy: in Revolution, 188
War of 1812, 195
Civil War, 353
World War, 610
See also Sea Power

Nebraska, admission, 441

Negro: Civil rights, 370f.
in agriculture, 393f.
status of, 396ff.
See also Slavery

New England: colonial times, 6ff., 35, 40ff.
See also Industry, Suffrage, Commerce, and Wars

New Hampshire: founded, 4ff.
See also Immigration, Royal province, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state

New Jersey, founded, 6
See also Immigration, Royal province, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state

Newlands, Senator, 524

New Mexico, admission, 443

New Orleans, 59, 190
battle, 201

Newspapers, colonial, 46f.

New York: founded by Dutch, 3
transferred to English, 49
See also Dutch, Immigration, Royal province, Commerce, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state

New York City, colonial, 36

Niagara, Fort, 59

Nicaragua protectorate, 594

Non-intercourse act, 196f.

Non-importation, 84f., 99

North, Lord, 100, 131, 133

North Carolina: founded, 6
See also Royal province, Immigration, Suffrage, and Constitutions, state

North Dakota, admission, 442

Northwest Ordinance, 219

Nullification, 182, 251ff.


Oglethorpe, James, 3

Ohio, admission, 225

Oklahoma, admission, 443

Open door policy, 500

Oregon, 284f.

Ostend Manifesto, 486

Otis, James, 88, 95f.


Pacific, American influence, 447

Paine, Thomas, 103, 115, 175

Panama Canal, 508f.

Panics: 1837, 262
1857, 336
1873, 464
1893, 465

Parcel post, 529

Parker, A.B., 527

Parties: rise of, 168f.
Federalists, 169f.
Anti-Federalists (Jeffersonian Republicans), 169f.
Democrats, 260
Whigs, 260f.
Republicans, 334f.
Liberal Republicans, 420
Constitutional union, 340
minor parties, 462f.

Paterson, William, 196f.

Penn, William, 6

Pennsylvania: founded, 6
See also Penn, Germans, Immigration, Industry, Revolutionary War, Constitutions, state, Suffrage

Pennsylvania University, 45

Pensions, soldiers and sailors, 413, 607
mothers', 551

Pequots, 57

Perry, O.H., 200

Pershing, General, 610

Philadelphia, 36, 116

Philippines, 492f., 516f., 592

Phillips, Wendell, 320

Pierce, Franklin, 295, 330

Pike, Z., 193, 287

Pilgrims, 4

Pinckney, Charles, 148

Pitt, William, 61, 79, 87, 132

Planting system, 22., 25, 149, 389, 393ff.

Plymouth, 4, 21

Polk, J.K., 265, 285f.

Polygamy, 290.

Populist party, 464

Porto Rico, 515, 592

Postal savings bank, 529

Preble, Commodore, 196

Press. See Newspapers

Primary, direct, 541

Princeton, battle, 129
University, 45

Profit sharing, 572

Progressive party, 531

Prohibition, 591

Proprietary colonies, 3, 6

Provinces, royal, 49f.

Public service, 538f.

Pulaski, 121

Pullman strike, 465

Pure food act, 523

Puritans, 3, 7, 40f.


Quakers, 6ff.

Quartering act, 83

Quebec act, 94

Queen Anne's War, 59

Quit rents, 21


Radicals, 579

Railways, 298, 402, 425, 460ff., 547, 621

Randolph, Edmund, 146, 147, 162

Ratification, of Constitution, 156f.

Recall, 543

Reclamation, 523f.

Reconstruction, 370f.

Referendum, the, 543

Reign of terror, 174

Republicans: Jeffersonian, 179
rise of present party, 334f.
supremacy of, 412f.
See also McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft

Resumption, 454

Revolution: American, 99f.
French, 171f.
Russian, 619

Rhode Island: founded, 4ff.
self-government, 49
See also Suffrage

Roosevelt, Theodore, 492, 500ff., 531, 570

Royal province, 49f.

Russia, 205, 207, 355, 479, 619

Russo-Japanese War, 511


Saint Mihiel, 612

Samoa, 481

San Jacinto, 280

Santa Fé trail, 287

Santo Domingo, 480, 513, 592

Saratoga, battle, 116, 130

Savannah, 116, 131

Scandinavians, 278

Schools. See Education

Scott, General, 283, 330

Scotch-Irish, 7ff.

Seamen's act, 590

Sea power: American Revolution, 118
Napoleonic wars, 193f.
Civil War, 353