A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (201 page)

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

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

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