Penguin History of the United States of America (136 page)

Communism

in colonial A.,
39

Indian,
235

discredited,
645

in early I9th-c. A.,
235

Marxist,
582

Russian,
582

Communist party, American,
529
,
558
,
596
,
600
,
601
,
659

Community Relations Service,
635

Compromise of 1850,
300
,
301

Compromise of 1877,
371–2

Concord, Battle of,
165
,
181

Conestoga wagons
see
Prairie schooners

Confederated States of America (the Confederacy),
23
,
312–45
passim
,
348
,
636

Confiscation Acts,
324
,
359

Congregationalism,
44
,
49
,
119

decline of,
90

Congress, Confederated States,
317
,
343

Congress, Confederation,
187
,
188
,
189
,
191–3
,
194
,
197
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
209

Congress, Continental,
163–4
,
165
,
168–74
,
178
,
179
,
196
,
261

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO),
535
,
547
,
548
,
595
,
621

Congress of the United States (
see also
House of Representatives
;
Senate, US
),
69
,
199
,
210
,
211
,
227
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
262
,
268
,
272
,
274
,
299
,
305
,
307
,
308
,
404
,
437
,
482
,
495
,
496
,
497
,
499
,
501
,
502
,
503
,
529
,
530
,
535
,
591
,
596
,
610
,
612
,
620
,
661
,
664
,
668
,
671
,
678
,
679
,
681
,
685
,
691
,
693

in Missouri crisis,
294

in Nullification crisis,
295

and Wilmot Proviso,
295

and Kansas-Nebraska Act,
302

in secession crisis,
312

in Civil War,
317
,
324
,
328
,
331–2
,
337
,
339–40
,
343
,
384
,
385

and Reconstruction,
350–56
,
359
,
360
,
362

and business,
384
,
385
,
411

and immigration,
405

in Gilded Age,
408
,
425
,
428–9
,
433

in Progressive era,
452–7
,
456
,
461
,
463
,
466

and First World War,
472
,
475
,
478

and the tariff,
492
,
505–6
,
512

and the New Deal,
524–7
,
538
,
544

and coming of Second

World War,
554–6
,
559
,
560

during Second World War,
568
,
569

and armed forces,
587

and Marshall aid,
592–3

under Republicans,
595

and McCarthyism,
599–601

and blacks,
625
,
626
,
627
,
630
,
633
,
634
,
636
,
642

Tonkin Gulf resolutions,
653

Congressional medal of honour,
333

Conkling, Sen. Roscoe,
408

Connecticut

colony
,
46
,
48
,
49
,
52
,
92
,
161n
; and White Pine Acts,
181
and Stamp Act,
131

state
,
193
,
195
,
201
,
230

Connecticut river,
118
,
291

Connor, ‘Bull’,
633

Conscription, military,
394
,
401
,
658–9

Conservation,
455
,
456
,
538

Constitution, English,
123

Constitution
, USS,
254

Constitution of the Confederated States,
312
,
335

Constitution of the United States,
40
,
197–215
,
219
,
243
,
255
,
264
,
269
,
293
,
294
,
313
,
319
,
350
,
407
,
409
,
430
,
546
,
549
,
602
,
625
,
627
,
629
,
667
,
691

amendments (
see also
Bill of Rights
), First,
296
,
478
,
601
; Fourth,
213
Fifth,
601
; Tenth,
208
; Twelfth,
262n
; Thirteenth,
338
,
343
,
350
,
351
,
362
; Fourteenth,
353
,
360
,
372
,
409
,
415
,
626
; Fifteenth,
359
,
371n
,
372
,
409
,
464n
; Sixteenth,
553
; Seventeenth,
207
; Eighteenth,
478
,
525
; Nineteenth (‘Anthony’),
464–5
,
478
,
quoted
,
464n
; Twenty-First,
525
; Twenty-Second,
594

amending procedure,
307

commerce clause,
533

ratification of C,
201–3
,
207

F. D. Roosevelt and,
546

and slavery,
199
,
289
,
307
,
308
,
313

Constitutional convention, 1787,
194
,
195–202
,
207
,
211

Consumers,
382
,
391
,
398
,
423
,
429
,
443
,
454
,
456
,
463
,
492
,
495
,
505
,
511

Contras
,
691

Convicts, transportation of,
531
,
567
,
588
,
658

Cooke, Jay,
387
,
388

Coolidge, Calvin (Pres. 1923–9),
489
,
498
,
500–507
,
509
,
510
,
527
,
609
,
619
,
690

Cooper, J. Fenimore,
225

‘Copperheads’,
334
,
341
,
354
,
369

Coral Sea, Battle of,
571
,
572

Cornwallis, Gen. Charles, Earl,
170
,
182
,
183
,
184
,
185

Corporations,
362
,
387n
,
391
,
399
,
408
,
427
,
558
,
599

federal incorporations,
384

Cotton, Rev. John,
45

Cotton (
see also
Enumerated products
;
Textile industry
),
199
,
282
,
286
,
287
,
289
,
290
,
295
,
310
,
312
,
329
,
380
,
384
,
425
,
505
,
513
,
537

ante-bellum boom in c,
229
,
298
,
306–7

in post-bellum South,
357–8
,
359
,
365
,
372

boll weevil,
372
,
503
,
617

and First World War,
469
,
482
,
616

in Depression,
618
,
619

Coughlin, Father Charles Edward,
556
,
598

Courts, county,
190

Courts, federal (
see also
Judiciary
,
federal
;
Supreme Court
),
262

Cowboys,
246
,
247
,
379
,
380
,
421

Cox, Gov. James,
489

Crash of 1929
see
Business cycle

Crawford, William,
268
,
271

Crazy Horse,
68

Creditors
see
Debtors and creditors

CREEP,
666

Crime,
68
,
495
,
502
,
517
,
642
,
675n
,
694

Crittenden, Sen. John Jordan,
312
,
313

Croats,
394

Croly, Herbert,
448
,
457
,
461

Cromwell, Oliver,
42
,
49
,
121
,
318

Cronkite, Walter,
659

Crowds,
273
,
628
,
632
,
639

in the A. Revolution,
126–31

Crown, British,
24
,
25
,
118
,
134
,
147
,
157

Crown colonies,
24

Crump, Edward Hull,
464

Cuba, Cubans,
324
,
405
,
440
,
442
,
552
,
603
,
613
,
649
,
665
,
675n

missile crisis,
631
,
646
,
681

Cumberland Gap,
223
,
225
,
226
,
241

Cumberland river,
223
,
325

Cumberland Road,
226

Currency (
see also
Gold standard
),
443
,
445
,
593

Acts (1863–4),
384

after 1929,
511

colonial,
92
,
130
,
425–6

colonial paper c,
92
,
108
,
123–4
,
136

Comptroller of,
463

Continental paper,
171
,
188n
,
189
,
202

dollar,
189n
,
424
,
670
,
687
,
688

in 1890s,
428–33
passim

and Federal Reserve System,
462–3

greenbacks,
387
,
418
,
430

hard (specie),
189
,
270
,
278

paper,
208
,
228
,
270
,
278
,
418
,
426

tobacco as,
123

Custer, Gen. George,
246
,
247

Customs service

in 13 colonies,
83
,
84
,
85
,
114
,
125
,
126
,
137
,
144
,
146
,
147
,
149

US,
295
,
312

Czechoslovakia, Czechs,
394
,
484
,
554
,
557
,
590
,
593
,
604

Czolgosz, Leon,
449

Dakotas, the (
see also
S. Dakota
),
380
,
422

Dale, Thomas,
23

Daley, Mayor Richard J.,
613
,
643
,
660

Dallas, Texas,
634
,
637

Darrow, Clarence,
532n

Dartmouth, William, Earl of,
165

Darwin, Charles,
64
,
432

Darwinism,
432

Daugherty, Harry M.,
500

Davis, Jefferson,
244
,
301
,
307
,
345
,
348
,
350
,
351
,
359n
,
425
,
479

President of the Confederacy,
312
,
316
,
334
,
335
,
343

as military leader,
316
,
317
,
341

Dawes, Charles Gates,
501
,
507

Dawes Severalty Act
see
Indian Allotment Act Dayton, Tennessee
,
432

De La Warr, Thomas, Baron,
20
,
23

De Priest, Cong. Oscar,
620

Dean, John,
666

Debs, Eugene Victor,
420–21
,
459
,
478
,
492