Caribbean, 593
Pacific, 447
World War, 610f.

Secession, 344f.

Sedition: act of 1798, 180f., 187
of 1918, 608

Senators, popular election, 527, 541ff.

Seven Years' War, 60f.

Sevier, John, 218

Seward, W.H., 322, 342

Shafter, General, 492

Shays's rebellion, 142

Sherman, General, 361

Sherman: anti-trust law, 461
silver act, 458

Shiloh, 361

Shipping. See Commerce

Shipping act, 607

Silver, free, 455f.

Slavery: colonial, 16.
trade, 150
in Northwest, 219
decline in North, 316.
growth in South, 320f.
and the Constitution, 324
and territories, 325f.
compromises, 350
abolished, 357f.

Smith, Joseph, 290

Socialism, 577f.

Solid South, 388

Solomon, Hayn, 126

Sons of liberty, 82

South: economic and political views, 309f.
See also Slavery and Planting system, and Reconstruction

South Carolina: founded, 6
nullification, 253f.
See also Constitutions, state, Suffrage, Slavery, and Secession

South Dakota, 442

Spain: and Revolution, 130
Louisiana, 190
Monroe Doctrine, 205
Spanish War, 490f.

Spoils system, 244, 250, 418, 536ff.

Stamp act, 82f.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 564

States: disorders under Articles of Confederation, 141
constitutions, federal limits on, 155
position after Civil War, 366f.
See also Suffrage, Nullification, and Secession

Steamboat, 234

Stowe, H.B., 332

Strikes: of 1877, 581
Pullman, 581
coal, 526
See also Labor

Submarine campaign, 600f.

Suffrage: colonial, 42, 51
first state constitutions, 239
White manhood, 242
Negro, 374f., 385.
Woman, 110, 562ff.

Sugar act, 81

Sumner, Charles, 319

Sumter, Fort, 350

Swedes, 3, 13


Taft, W.H., 527f.

Tammany Hall, 306, 418

Taney, Chief Justice, 357

Tariff: first, 167
of 1816, 203
development of, 251f.
abominations, 249, 253
nullification, 251
of 1842, 264
Southern views of, 309f.
of 1857, 337
Civil War, 367
Wilson bill, 459
McKinley bill, 422
Dingley bill, 472
Payne-Aldrich, 528
Underwood, 588

Taxation: and representation, 149
and Constitution, 154
Civil War, 353
and wealth, 522, 551
and World War, 606

Tea act, 88

Tea party, 92

Tenement house reform, 549

Tennessee, 28, 224

Territories, Northwest, 219
South of the Ohio, 219
See also Slavery and Compromise

Texas, 278f.

Tippecanoe, battle, 198

Tocqueville, 267

Toleration, religious, 42

Tories, colonial, 84
in Revolution, 112

Townshend acts, 80, 87

Trade, colonial, 70
legislation, 70 See Commerce

Transylvania company, 28

Treasury, independent, 263

Treaties, of 1763, 61
alliance with France, 177
of 1783 with England, 134
Jay, 177, 218
Louisiana purchase, 191.
of 1815, 201
Ashburton, 265
of 1848 with Mexico, 283
Washington with England, 481
with Spain, 492
Versailles (1919), 612f.

Trenton, battle, 116

Trollope, Mrs., 268

Trusts, 405f., 461, 472ff., 521, 526, 530

Tweed, W.M., 418

Tyler, President, 264f., 281, 349


"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 332

Union party, 365

Unions. See Labor

Utah, 290f., 329, 442

Utilities, municipal, 548


Vallandigham, 360

Valley Forge, 116, 129

Van Buren, Martin, 262

Venango, Fort, 59

Venezuela, 482f., 512

Vermont, 223

Vicksburg, 361

Virginia: founded, 6
See also Royal province, Constitutions, state, Planting system, Slavery, Secession, and Immigration


Walpole, Sir Robert, 66

Wars: colonial, 57f.
Revolutionary, 99f.
of 1812, 199f.
Mexican, 282f.
Civil, 344f.
Spanish, 490f.
World, 596f.

Washington: warns French, 60
in French war, 63
commander-in-chief, 101f.
and movement for Constitution, 142f.
as President, 166f.
Farewell Address, 178

Washington City, 166

Washington State, 442

Webster, 256, 265, 328

Welfare work, 573

Whigs: English, 78
colonial, 83
rise of party, 260f., 334, 340

Whisky Rebellion, 171

White Camelia, 382

White Plains, battle, 114

Whitman, Marcus, 284

William and Mary College, 45

Williams, Roger, 5, 42

Wilmot Proviso, 326

Wilson, James, 147

Wilson, Woodrow, election, 533.
administrations, 588f.

Winthrop, John, 3

Wisconsin, admission, 274

Witchcraft, 41

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 556

Women: colonial, 28
Revolutionary War, 124
labor, 305
education and civil rights, 554f.
suffrage, 562f.

Workmen's compensation, 549

Writs of assistance, 88

Wyoming, admission, 442


X, Y, Z affair, 180


Yale, 44

Young, Brigham, 290


Zenger, Peter, 48