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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

Schwartzkopf, Norman

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Science

  Scientific Temperance Instruction

  Scott, Dred

  Scott, George

  Scott, Thomas

  Scott, Winfield

  tactics of

  Scott v. Sandford,

  Secession

  Second Amendment

  Second American Party

  System

  Second Great Awakening

  Second hundred days, of Roosevelt, F.D.

  Secularist reformers

  Securities and Exchange Commission

  Sedition, Alien and, Acts

  Segregation. See also Race relations

  Selective Service Act

  Seminole War

  Senate

  Senate Armed Forces Committee

  Senate Foreign Relations Committee

  Seneca Women’s Rights Convention

  Separation of power

  Serbia

  Seven Days’ Battle

  Seventh Amendment

  Seventh-Day Adventists

  Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War

  Sewage systems

  Seward, William H.

  Sex

  church, marriage and

  drugs, rock and roll and

  lies, Monicagate, and

  Seymour, Horatio

  Shafter, William

  Shaker sect

  Shanksville, PA

  Sharecropping

  Sharpsburg. See Antietam Shaw, Nate

  Shays, Daniel

  Shays’s Rebellion

  Sheldon, Charles

  Shepard, Alan B., Jr.

  Sheridan, Philip

  Sherman, John

  economic policy of

  Sherman, William Tecumseh

  life of

  Sherman Antitrust Act

  Shiloh

  Shippen, Peggy

  Shirley, William

  Short, Walter

  Sierra Club

  Silent Majority

  Silicon Valley

  Silver

  Silver Purchase Act

  Simpson, Jerry

  Simpson, O.J.

  Sims, William S.

  Sinclair, Upton

  Sitting Bull

  Sixteenth Amendment

  Sixth Amendment

  Slater, Samuel

  Slaughter-House cases

  Slave revolts

  in Carolinas

  Cato conspiracy

  Charleston plot

  Nat Turner rebellion

  Slave runaways

  Slavery. See also Emancipation Proclamation

  in 1800

  abolition of

  apportionment establishment and

  Calhoun, John C., on

  culture in

  development of

  economics of

  Harrison, William Henry, on

  issues regarding, at Constitutional Congress

  Lincoln on

  in Louisiana Purchase

  origins of

  populations of people in

  prevalence of

  profitability of

  railroads and

  rape in

  as referenced in Constitution

  religion and

  Van Buren and

  Slave trade

  race and

  reopening

  Slidell, James

  Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.

  Small bill prohibition

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Alfred E.

  Smith, Fred

  Smith, John

  Smith, Joseph

  Smoot-Hawley Tariff

  Social Gospel

  Socialism

  Social reform

  Social Security

  Sons of Liberty

  Sons of Neptune

  Soto, Hermando de

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  Southwest Ordinance of 1789

  Soviet espionage, in America

  Soviet Union. See also Russia; Stalin, Joseph

  communism’s collapse and

  iron curtain of

  Khrushchev of

  Reagan and

  Space program

  Apollo in

  Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin in

  cold war and

  Gagarin in

  NASA and

  Spain

  as ally in Revolutionary War

  colonies of

  conflict with

  England competing with

  Spanish-American War

  as costly

  Cuba and

  final negotiations of

  McKinley and

  Roosevelt, T., and

  volunteer army in

  Special Field Order No. 15

  Specie Circular of 1836

  Speed, Joshua Spirit of the Laws, The (Montesquieu)

  Spiritual renewal

  Spreckels, Claus

  Sputnik

  “Square deal,”

  Stagecoaches

  Stalin, Joseph

  iron curtain and

  Stamp Act Congress

  Stamp Act of 1765

  Standard Oil Company

  Stanton, Edwin

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

  Starr, Kenneth

  Star Wars

  State constitutions

  State, The (Wilson)

  Steamboats

  Steam power

  Steel

  Steffens, Lincoln

  Stephanopoulos, George

  Stephens, Alexander H.

  Stephens, Ulrich S.

  Stephenson, B.F.

  Steuben, Baron Friedrich von

  Stevens, Isaac Ingalls

  Stevens, Thaddeus

  Stock market

  Stockton, Robert

  Stoddard, Lothrop

  Stoker, Bram

  Stone, Lucy

  Stono slave revolt

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

  Strauss, Levi

  Strikes. See Labor unions

  Strong, Josiah

  Stuart, Jeb

  “Studies in the Sierra”

  Sturgis v. Crowninshield

  Stuyvesant, Peter

  Suez Canal

  Suffolk Resolves

  Suffrage, of women

  Sugar Act of 1764

  Sullivan, Louis

  Summer camp movement

  Sumner, Charles

  Supreme Court

  Swift, Gustavus

  Swill milk

  Syphilis

  Taft, William Howard

  and 1908 election

  Ballinger-Pinochet controversy and

  Mexico and

  as president

  progressivism of

  Roosevelt, T., and

  tariff revisions of

  trust busting continued by

  Taliban

  Talleyrand, Charles

  Tallmadge, James

  Taney, Roger B.

  Tappan, Arthur

  Tappan, Lewis

  Tarbell, Ida

  Tariff

  of 1824

  of 1833

  Dingley

  favoring extended to

  Hawaii

  Fordney-McCumber

  land and

  McKinley

  protective

  Roosevelt, T., and

  scientific management of

  Smoot-Hawley

  Taft and

  Wilson and

  Tarleton, Banastre

  Taxation during

  Civil War

  cuts

  income

  increase of

  Mellon’s policies of

  powers of

  slave counting for

  withholding

  Taylor, Frederick W.

  Taylor, John

  Taylor, John C.

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nbsp; Taylor, Zachary

  in 1848 election

  as president

  Tea Act of 1773

  Teapot Dome scandal

  Technology

  agricultural

  firearms

  industrial

  land and

  shipbuilding

  steam

  Telephone

  Teller Amendment

  Temin, Peter

  Temperance. See also Prohibition

  Ten Commandments Ten Commandments, The

  Tenet, George

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

  Tenochtitlán

  Tenth Amendment

  Tenure of Office Act

  Terry, Alfred

  Tet offensive

  Texas

  independence of

  statehood of

  Thanksgiving

  Thatcher, Margaret Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith)

  Theory of the Leisure Class, A (Veblen)

  Theosophy

  Third Amendment

  Thirteenth Amendment

  Thomas, Clarence

  Thomas, Lorenzo

  Thomas, Phillip

  Thomason, Harry

  Thomason, Susan

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Thorpe, George

  Thousand-Year Reich

  Three-fifths compromise

  Tibbets, Paul

  Tilden, Samuel J.

  in 1876 election

  Timber

  Time lines

  1492–1692

  1707–63

  1763–83

  1776–89

  1789–1815

  1815–37

  1836–49

  1843–96

  1848–60

  1860–65

  1865–77

  1877–95

  1896–1912

  1912–20

  1920–32

  1932–41

  1939–47

  1945–60

  1973–87

  1988–2000

  2000–04

  Tobacco

  Tocqueville, Alexis de

  on elections

  on land

  Tojo, Hideki

  Tolerance

  Toleration Act of 1649

  Tompkins, Daniel D.

  Toombs, Robert

  Tora Bora

  Tourgee, Albion

  Townshend, Charles

  Townshend Act

  Tracy, Benjamin Franklin

  Trade

  Atlantic

  British

  with Canada

  favorable balance of

  free and open

  international

  routes

  slave

  Trail of Tears

  Transcendentalism

  “Travelgate,”

  Travis, William B.

  Treasury Department

  Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle

  Treaty of Brest Litovsk

  Treaty of Ghent

  Treaty of Greenville

  Treaty of Guadalupe

  Hidalgo

  Treaty of Paris

  Treaty of Peace

  Treaty of San Ildefonso

  Treaty of San Lorenzo. See Pinckney’s Treaty

  Treaty of Utrecht

  Treaty of Versailles

  Trent

  Trenton

  Tribe, Lawrence

  Tripartite Pact

  Tripoli

  Trist, Nicholas

  Trollope, Frances

  Trotsky, Leon

  Truman, Harry S.

  and 1948 election

  atomic bomb used by

  career of

  Korea and

  as president

  Truman Doctrine

  Trust busting

  Truth, Sojourner

  Tuberculosis

  Tubman, Harriet

  Tugwell, Rexford

  Turner, Frederick Jackson

  Turner, Nat

  Twain, Mark

  Twenty-first Amendment

  Tydings-McDuffie Act

  Tyler, John C.

  in 1840 election

  economic policy of

  after Harrison’s death

  Whigs v.

  Tyler, Royall

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

  Underground Railroad

  Union Army

  Union Pacific

  Unions. See Labor unions Unitarianism

  United Auto Workers (UAW)

  United Mine Workers (UMW)

  United Nations

  General Assembly

  Security Council

  United Parcel Service

  United Steel Workers

  Universal Negro Improvement Association

  Upshur, Abel Up from Slavery (Washington)

  Urban life

  Urrea, José deU.S. First Infantry Division

  U.S. Forest Service

  USS Arizona, 594USS Cole,

  USS Dolphin, 508USS Maine, sinking of

  USS Nashville, 481U.S. Steel

  USS Yorktown, 610–11

  Valley Forge

  Van Buren, Martin

  in 1824 election

  in 1836 election

  in 1840 election

  in 1860 election

  during Adams’s administration

  Democratic party and

  economic policy of

  as president

  slavery and

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius

  Vanderlip, Frank

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo

  Vatican II

  Veblen, Thorsten

  Versailles

  Fourteen Points of

  Treaty of

  Vesey, Denmark

  Vespucci, Amerigo

  Veterans Administration (VA), loans of

  Vicksburg, MI

  Viet Cong

  Vietnam War

  end of

  Gulf of Tonkin in

  Hanoi

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Johnson and

  Kennedy and

  My Lai massacre in

  Nixon and

  North Vietnamese in

  opponents of

  silent majority relating to

  Tet offensive in

  Viet Cong in

  Villa, Francisco (Pancho)

  Vinland

  Virginia

 

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