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A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror

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by Larry Schweikart


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  Randall, James G. The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1937.

  Schweikart, Larry. The Entrepreneurial Adventure: A History of Business in the United States. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 2000.

  Tindall, George Brown and David Shi. America: A Narrative History, 5th ed., 2 vols. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.

  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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