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INDEX
ABM (antiballistic missile system)
Abolition
adverse reaction to
economics and
sentiment toward
of slavery
Abortion
clinic
Acadians
Acheson, Dean
Adams, John
in 1796 election
in 1800 election
foreign policy of
on government
life of
oath of office of
on revolution
Adams, John Quincy
in 1824 election
in 1828 election
economic policy of
as president
Adams-Onis Treaty
Adams, Samuel
Addams, Jane
Adid, Mohammed
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital,
Afghanistan
Africa
African Americans. See also Black Muslims; Emancipation Proclamation; Slavery
in America
black nationalism of
in Carolinas
as chattels, personal
in Civil War
freed, during slavery
in Harlem
Jim Crow laws relating to
leadership of
new class of
philosophies of
politics and
in positions of power
post-Reconstruction
progress of
during Reconstruction
rights of
schools built by
votes of
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
Afro-American Realty Corporation
Agnew, Spiro
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Agriculture
technology in
Agriculture Marketing Act
Aguinaldo, Emilio
Ahuitzotl
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Air travel, deregulation of
Alamo
Alaska
Albany Regency
Alcott, Bronson
Aldrich, Nelson
Aldrin, Edwin
Alfred A. Murrah Federal
Building
Alien and Sedition Acts
Allen, Ethan
Allen, Paul
Allison, William
Altgeld, John Peter
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Amendatory Act
Amendments. See Constitution
America Coming of Age
American Anti-Slavery
Society
American Bankers’
Association
American Communist Party
American Conference for the Prevention of Infant Mortality
American Eugenics Society
American Expeditionary
Force
American Express
American Federation of Labor (AFL) See also Labor unions
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Fur Company
American imperialism, era of
American Individualism,
American life during 1950s
achievers in
baby boomers in
growth of
travel in
American Marconi Company
American Peace Mobilization Committee
American Slavery, American Freedom (Morgan)
American Social Hygiene Association
American Tobacco Company
American Union Against Militarism
American Wire Company
Amherst, Jeffrey
Anaconda Plan
Anarchists
André, John
Andrew, A. Piatt
Andrews, Samuel
Andropov, Yuri
Andros, Edmund
Angell, Norman
Anne, Queen
Annexation, of Hawaii
Anthony, Susan B.
Anti-Comintern pact
Antietam Creek
Anti-Federalists
achievements of
beliefs of
on Constitution
demographics of
Federalists v.
on Hamilton’s reports
support for
Anti-Imperialist League
Antinomianism
Anti-Saloon League. See also Prohibition
Anti-Semitism
Antitrust suits
Antituberculosis league
Antiwar groups
Apollo space program
Apple Computers, Inc.
Appleton, Nathan
Arbuthnot, Alexander
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arista, Mariano
Armbrister, Robert
Armistead, Lewis
Armistice, of 1918
Armstrong, Louis “Satchmo,”
Armstrong, Neil
Army. See also Continental Army; Draft; Militias
Bonus
Confederate
Union
volunteer
Arnold, Benedict
Washington and
Arrears of Pension Act
Arthur, Chester A.
as president
Articles of Confederation
amendments to
Constitution v.
ratification of
weaknesses of
Art, in Colonial America
Assassination
attempt on Reagan
of Franz Ferdinand
of Garfield
of Kennedy, J.F.
of Kennedy, R.F.
of King
of McKinley
Assumption of debt program
Atchison, David
Atlantic trade
Atomic bomb. See also Manhattan Project
Atomic Energy
Commission
Atomic energy/weapons
Atta, Mohammad
Attack and Die (McWhiney and Jamieson)
Autobiography (Franklin)
Automobiles
business spurred by
impact of
production of
Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu in Montreal (Monk)
“Axis of evil,” 821
Aztecs
culture of
fall of
Azusa Street revival
Babbitt, Bruce
Baby boomers
Bacon, Nathaniel
rebellion of
Baer, George F.
Baghdad
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company
Baker, James
Balance of powers
Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de
Baldwin, Matthias
Balfour Declarat
ion
Balkans, conflict in
Ballinger, Richard
Ballinger-Pinochet controversy
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O)
Bank of America
Banking and Currency Committee
Banking system. See also Federal Reserve
branching privileges of
crisis of
as gold based
during Hundred Days
reform of
Bank of United States (BUS)
establishment of
Jackson and
legality of
opposition to
second
Barbed wire
Baruch, Bernard
Bataan, Death March
Batista, Fulgencio
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Chippewa
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of Tippecanoe
Bay of Pigs. See Cuba “Bayonet constitution,” of Hawaii
Beamer, Todd
Beard, Andrew Jackson
Beard, Charles
Bear Flag Revolt
Beauregard, P.G.T.
Bebel, August
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beecher, Lyman
Begin, Menachem
Belknap, William W.
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, John
Benét, Stephen Vincent
Ben-Gurion, David
Benjamin, Judah P.
Benteen, Frederick
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bentsen, Lloyd
Berkeley, William
Berlin
Berlin, Irving
Bernhardt, Sarah
Berry, Harrison
Berthier, Louis
Biddle, Nicholas
Bierce, Ambrose
Bill of Rights
Bingham, George Caleb
Birmingham, Alabama
Birney, James G.
Birth control. See also “The Pill”
Birth Control Review
Birth of a Nation, The
Bitlingmayer, George
Black Friday
Black Hawk
Black Hawk’s War
Black Muslims
Black nationalism
Black Niagara Movement
Black Panthers
Black Republicans
Blacks. See African
Americans
Blaine, James G.
in 1884 election
Blair, Francis Preston
Blair, Frank P., Jr.
Blair, Montgomery
Blair, Tony
Bland, Richard
Bland-Allison Act
Blitzkrieg, during World War II
Bloch, Ivan S.
Board of Trade
Boer War
Boies, David
Boldin, Valery
Bolsheviks
Bomb. See Time Line; World War II
Bonds
Bonus Army
Boone, Daniel
background of
expeditions of
Booth, John Wilkes
Borah, William
Borden, Gail
Bork, Robert
Bosnia/Kosovo
Boston
Boston Tea Party
Bowie, Jim
Boyce, Ed
Bozeman Trail
Braddock, Edward
Bradford, David
Bradford, William
Bradley, Joseph P.
Bradley, Omar
Bradstreet, Anne
Brady, Jim and Sarah
Brady Bill/Act
Branch Davidians
Breckinridge, John
in 1860 election
Brezhnev, Leonid
Britain. See also Great Britain
Broaddrick, Juanita
Brooks, Preston
Brown, Albert
Brown, H. Rap
Brown, Jacob
Brown, Joe
Brown, John
Brown, Ron
Brown v. Board of Education
Brownlow, Parson
Bruce, Blanche Kelso
Bryan, William Jennings
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Buchanan, Franklin
Buchanan, James
Buchanan v. Worley,
Buell, Don Carlos
Buffalo
Bull Run
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe 81
Burbank, Luther
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF)
Bureau of Corporations
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Burger, Warren
Burgoyne, John
forces of
Burke, Edmund
Burnside, Ambrose
Burr, Aaron
in 1800 election
career of
Hamilton, Alexander, and
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Bush, George H.W.
communism and
economic policies of
Iraq and
as president
as vice president
Bush, George W.
and 2000 election
“axis of evil” and
Bush Doctrine of
career of
Department of Homeland Security and
economic policies of
Hussein and
9/11 relating to
Operation Enduring Freedom and
Operation Iraqi Freedom and
war on terrorism and
Bush Doctrine
Butler, Andrew
Butler, Benjamin
Butterfield, John
Byrd II, William
Cabot, John
Cajuns
Calhoun, John C.
in 1828 election
doctrine of nullification
on slavery
California
settlement of
California Stage Company
Calley, William
Calvert, Cecilius
Calvert, George
Calvert, James I.
Cambodia
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
Campbell, Joseph
Camp David
accords of
Campus violence
Canada, trade with
Canning, George
Cannon, Joe
Capitalism
during New Deal
welfare
Capone, Al
Card, Andrew
Caribbean, piracy in
Carleton, Guy
Carmichael, Stokely
Carnegie, Andrew
business strategies of
life of
Carnegie Steel
Carolinas
Carpetbaggers
Carranza, Venustiano
Carter, Jimmy
and 1976 election
Afghanistan and
economic policies of
foreign policies of
as president
Cartier, Jacques
Carville, James
Cass, Lewis
Castro, Fidel
Catholics/Catholic Church
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