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Page numbers refer to this edition. Where a term recurs many times, references are capped and marked “ff.” to indicate further occurrences.

Abolitionism 25, 40, 41, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 70, 78 ff.

Adams, John 63, 80

Adams, John Quincy 75

affirmative action 156

AFL 111, 113, 115, 138, 212

Alien and Sedition Acts 55, 58, 61, 63, 98

American Indian Movement 152, 153

American System 64

Anti-Federalists 54, 56, 70, 203, 208, 220, 230, 234

Articles of Confederation 53, 57, 59, 62, 198, 204, 210, 220, 237

Atlantic slave trade 98

Bank War 75, 76, 82, 136, 201, 210, 213

Bay of Pigs 144, 216

Black Codes 94, 96, 138

Brown v. Board 148, 149, 157, 175, 179, 252

Bryan, William Jennings 110

Carter, Jimmy 154, 155, 160

Chinese Exclusion Act 107, 108, 111, 112, 135, 139, 199, 219, 230, 251

Civil Rights Act of 1964 149, 150, 179, 219, 229, 245

civil rights movement 150, 151, 199, 219

Civil War 26, 78, 83, 91, 92, 97, 98, 100, 103, 106 ff.

Cold War 11, 12, 131, 142, 143, 144, 147, 155, 157, 158 ff.

Columbian Exchange 20, 24, 26, 183, 215, 228

Compromise of 1850 83, 87, 97, 236, 251

Constitution / Constitutional Convention 7, 41, 44, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62 ff.

containment 142, 143, 145, 157, 158, 171, 184, 190, 211, 217

Dawes Act 7, 100, 101, 102, 111, 112, 114, 133, 134, 138 ff.

Declaration of Independence 46, 48, 50, 57, 62, 80, 229

Declaration of Sentiments 80, 217, 229

Dred Scott 13, 88, 90, 97, 98, 133, 137, 215, 228

Eisenhower, Dwight 144, 145, 158

Emancipation Proclamation 13, 91, 92, 93, 97, 99, 201, 212

Erie Canal 13, 72, 74, 82, 98, 136, 216, 228

federalism / federal power 7, 54, 55, 58, 61, 63, 65, 70, 71, 77 ff.

Federalist Papers 54, 208

First Great Awakening 13, 14, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 69 ff.

Fourteenth Amendment 95, 96, 138, 148, 175

Free Soil 87, 98, 112

Freedmen’s Bureau 95, 235, 247

Fugitive Slave Act 83, 87, 97, 137, 208, 251

GI Bill 130, 132, 133, 135, 146, 147, 158, 176, 190

Gilded Age 106, 110, 111, 115, 139, 199, 212, 217, 229

Great Depression 126, 128, 134, 171, 176, 216

Great Migration 13, 120, 121, 123, 134, 140, 184, 238, 248

Great Society 7, 12, 151, 153, 157, 158, 161, 165, 175, 181 ff.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 151, 153, 157, 191, 225

Harlem Renaissance 123, 124, 184, 238, 248

Homestead Act 12, 92, 98, 100, 101, 112, 114, 133, 134, 138 ff.

immigration 40, 55, 73, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 115 ff.

Indian Removal Act 76, 82, 83, 84, 197, 211, 225, 251

industrialization 11, 72, 82, 84, 106, 112, 115, 116, 162, 184 ff.

Interstate Commerce Act 110, 111, 113, 133, 197, 210, 211, 219, 251

Iran-Contra 161, 166, 231

Jackson, Andrew 64, 75, 201, 206

Jamestown 24, 28, 30, 39, 68, 218

Jim Crow 96, 99, 107, 108, 112, 113, 115, 148, 184, 226

Johnson, Lyndon 151, 200

Kansas-Nebraska Act 7, 13, 88, 89, 97, 98, 236, 251

Kennedy, John F 144, 152, 157, 191, 229

King, Martin Luther Jr 152

labor unions 42, 104, 110, 111, 113, 115, 118, 127, 134, 139 ff.

League of Nations 120, 125, 130, 218, 229

Lincoln, Abraham 86, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 137, 220 ff.

Louisiana Purchase 59, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 82, 83, 112, 247 ff.

Manifest Destiny 42, 86, 114, 137

Market Revolution 10, 13, 72, 73, 74, 82, 83, 84, 136, 183 ff.

Marshall Plan 142, 145, 157, 190

McCarthyism 147, 190, 241, 244

Mexican-American War 13, 86, 87, 97, 98, 112, 114, 217, 233, 234

Missouri Compromise 13, 66, 71, 82, 86, 88, 89, 98, 137, 215 ff.

Monroe Doctrine 65, 66, 71, 83, 84, 117, 133

Montgomery Bus Boycott 148, 149, 234, 247

NAFTA 166, 167, 179

Native American policy 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 ff.

NATO 142, 145, 157, 163, 165, 171, 190, 192, 196, 218

New Deal 7, 12, 126, 127, 128, 132, 133, 134, 140, 151 ff.

Nixon, Richard 154, 155, 156, 160, 191, 192, 222, 225, 246

Northwest Ordinance 53, 56, 57, 58, 60, 70, 197, 198, 212, 251

nullification 55, 61, 62, 75, 77, 84, 136, 184, 203, 220 ff.

Pearl Harbor 129, 132, 134, 140, 232, 237, 246

Plessy v. Ferguson 107, 108, 111, 113, 139, 148, 184, 199, 215, 245

Populism 109, 110, 111, 115, 139, 183, 197, 211, 224, 227

Progressive Era 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118, 132, 133, 139 ff.

Prohibition 118, 123, 252

Reagan, Ronald 156, 160, 161, 162, 166, 179, 184, 192, 200, 212 ff.

Reconstruction 7, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 107, 108, 111 ff.

Roosevelt, Franklin D 127, 171, 200

Roosevelt, Theodore 113, 118

Second Great Awakening 13, 14, 78, 81, 83, 84

sectionalism 7, 13, 64, 65, 71, 73, 76, 82, 84, 86 ff.

Seneca Falls 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 184, 217, 227, 229

September 11 attacks 163, 165, 166, 192, 237, 245, 248

Shays’s Rebellion 53, 55, 58, 60, 62, 208, 232, 237, 243, 248

slavery 7, 13, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34 ff.

Social Security Act 98, 113, 127, 134, 171, 220, 252

Spanish-American War 116, 117, 125, 132, 239

Sputnik 236, 247

Stono Rebellion 33, 39, 41, 232, 237, 247

Taft-Hartley Act 208, 252

tariff policy 13, 55, 60, 61, 64, 75, 76, 82, 84, 110 ff.

Thirteenth Amendment 230

Truman Doctrine 142, 145, 157, 190, 244

urbanization 84, 112, 146, 147, 184

Vietnam War 151, 152, 155, 157, 158, 181, 183, 184, 191, 225 ff.

voting rights 13, 59, 60, 70, 80, 84, 94, 107, 117, 138 ff.

Voting Rights Act 13, 149, 150, 157, 176, 179, 181, 184, 191, 245 ff.

War of 1812 64, 65, 66, 82, 84, 217, 233, 234, 247

War Powers Resolution 158, 176, 252

Washington, George 239

Watergate 154, 157, 158, 176, 181, 183, 184, 191, 231, 246

Wilson, Woodrow 118, 119, 120, 121, 125, 140, 200, 218, 229

women’s suffrage 80, 81, 83, 84, 94, 117, 120, 139, 184, 202 ff.

World War I 119, 120, 122, 125, 126, 129, 132, 133, 134, 144 ff.

World War II 120, 129, 132, 144, 146, 170, 178, 180, 223, 224 ff.