Penguin History of the United States of America (139 page)

Government, British imperial

and A.,
135
,
151
,
156
,
192

and the Indians,
119
,
120–21

Government, US

federal (see also
Articles of Confederation
;
Constitution of the US
;
Constitutional Convention 1787
),
188
,
191
,
193
,
194–5
,
244
,
258
,
262–3
,
265
,
276
,
278
,
462
,
611
,
694
; relations between the three branches
(see also
Separation of powers
),
407–8
,
501
,
547
,
550
; and blacks,
623
,
625–6
,
629
,
631–2
,
635
; and Depression,
516
,
526
; devolution in,
312
; and the economy,
334
,
386
,
425
,
462–3
,
505
,
516
,
544
,
617
; in Gilded Age,
407–10
; and impeachment of Pres.,
355–6
; and Indians,
120
; and labour,
420–21
; and McCarthyism,
601–4
; military responsibility,
119
; impact of New Deal,
527
; patent office,
386
; in Reconstruction,
339
,
340
,
366
; regulatory power,
454
; and slavery,
307
; in First World War,
477

municipal
,
236
,
383
,
400
,
463
; and unemployment,
516
; impact of Second World War,
568

states (see also
States’ rights
;
State sovereignty
),
189
,
190
,
192
,
194
,
383
,
414
,
464
,
546
; and the cities,
515
; and the Depression,
516
,
618
; legislatures,
193
,
197
,
236
,
311
,
410
; in the Revolution,
169
,
174
; Southern,
617

territorial
,
191
,
307–8

Governors

colonial,
25
,
117
,
118
,
130
,
137
, ‘
44
,
148
,
153
,
163
,
165
,
178

state,
335
,
411

Grafton, Augustus Henry, Duke of,
151

Grandfather clause,
371n
,
620

Grant, Madison,
404–5

Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson (Pres. 1869–77),
210
,
325
,
333
,
337
,
340
,
343–5
.
346
,
348
,
355
,
356
,
410
,
412
,
656

administration,
369–70
,
408

Grasse, Admiral François de,
184
,
185

Great American Desert,
422

Great Awakening,
91–2
,
232

Great Britain
see
Britain

Great Compromise,
198
,
201
,
207

Great Lakes,
52
,
112
,
185
,
187
,
191
,
231
,
254
,
271

Great Migration

of Puritans,
41–2
,
43

of the 19th century,
393–9
,
624
,
640

of blacks,
616
,
617
,
640

Great Plains,
8
,
240
,
379

Great Removal
see
Indian Removal Act

Great Revival,
232
,
291

Great Salt Lake,
238
,
241

Great Valley of the Appalachians,
221
,
226

Greece, Greeks,
394
,
590
,
592
.
594

Greeley, Horace,
285

Green Berets,
649
,
650
,
655

movie,
Green Berets
,
657

Green Hills,
231

Greenback Party,
418
,
426
,
427
,
443

‘Greenbacks’
see
Currency

Greene, Gen. Nathanael,
183
,
184

Greenland,
4

Greensboro, N. Carolina,
629–30

Grenada,
691

Grenville, George,
111–16
,
121
,
122
,
132
,
134
,
146
,
151
,
157
,
166
,
258
,
303

and George III,
111
,
132

and land tax,
143

and Quartering Act,
136

and Rockinghams,
140

and Stamp Act,
115
,
117
,
125

and Sugar Act,
122
,
124

and C. Townshend,
142
,
143

Grew, Ambassador Joseph,
554

Greyhound Bus Co.,
637

Grimké, Angelina,
293

Grimké, Sarah,
293

Gross National Product, US,
443

Groves, Gen. Leslie R.,
570

Guadalcanal,
574

Guadalupe Hidalgo, treaty of,
297

Guam,
441
,
495–6
,
562
,
651

Guatemala,
610

Guinea Coast,
100

Guiteau, Charles Julius,
408

Gulf Oil Co.,
492

Habsburg, house of,
6
,
11
,
111
,
162n

Hague Court,
445
,
495
,
499

Haiti,
289
,
552

Hakluyt, Richard,
13
,
14
,
15–16
,
33
,
64
,
74

Halifax, Nova Scotia,
143–4
,
172

Ham, curse of,
107

Ham, Rev. Mordecai F.,
504

Hamilton, Alexander,
191
,
193
,
195
,
228
,
262
,
263
,
266
,
270
,
277
,
278
,
370
,
461
,
463
,
492
,
598

and making of Constitution,
196
,
198
,
201
,
202–3
,
206
,
209
,
211

Secretary of the Treasury,
257–61

Hamiltonism,
258
,
263
,
448

Hammond, James Henry,
289
,
290
,
307

Hampton, Gen. Wade,
369

Hampton Roads,
334

Hancock, John,
202
,
203
,
256

at Continental Congress,
166

as patriot leader,
138
,
141n
,
161

as smuggler,
138
,
149

Hanford, Washington,
570

Hanna, Marcus (‘Mark’) Alonso,
431
,
432
,
449
,
450–51
,
609

Hanoi,
662

Hanover,
12

Harding, Warren Gamaliel (Pres. 1921–3),
210
,
489
,
492
,
496
, 4908,
499
,
500
,
501n
,
504
,
536–7

Harlan, Mr Justice John Marshall,
414
,
429

Harney, Gen. William Selby,
69n

Harper’s Ferry, Virginia,
309
,
310
,
327

Haniman, Edward Henry,
423

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
336

Harrison, Benjamin (Pres. 1889–93),
407–8
,
426

Harrison, Gen. William Henry (Pres. 1841),
66
,
254
,
268
,
276
,
297
,
426

Harrison’s Landing, Virginia,
224

Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
224

Hartford Convention,
254

Harvard (College and University),
50n
,
92
,
119
,
291
,
414
,
450
,
498
,
522
,
592
,
640
,
663

Business School,
447

Hawaii,
395
,
495
,
564–6
,
571
,
672

Hawkins, Sir John,
6
,
12
,
28

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
234

Hay, John,
438

Hayes, Lucy Webb,
408

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (Pres. 1877–81),
369
,
371
,
408
,
418

Haymarket police riot,
404
,
419

Headlight system,
25

Hearst, William Randolph,
440

Helsinki agreements (1975),
671
,
681

Henderson, Richard,
224
,
224

Henry, Patrick,
154
,
166
,
189

in Parson’s case,
123–4

in Stamp Act crisis,
125–6

and US Constitution,
203
,
204
,
206
,
256

Hepburn Act,
452–4

‘Hessians’,
172n

Higginson, Rev. Francis,
quoted
,
30

High Plains,
241n
,
422
,
423
,
425

Highway Act (1921), Federal,
495

Hillman, Sidney,
535

Hillsborough Resolutions,
150

Hillsborough, Wills Hill, Earl of,
148
,
149
,
160–61

Hilton, William,
39

Hirohito, Emperor,
563
,
589

Hiroshima,
585

Hiss, Alger,
597

Hitler, Adolf,
323
,
470
,
529
,
551–62
passim
,
563
,
563
,
566
,
572–4
,
579
,
581
,
592
,
601
,
604
,
622

Ho Chi Minh,
646
,
648

Ho Chi Minh City,
671

Holland
see
Netherlands

Hollywood,
495
,
580
,
600
,
677
,
684
,
685

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
quoted
,
375

Holy Alliance,
255

Homestead Act,
239
,
301
,
304
,
308
,
384
,
397
,
422

Homestead strike,
388
,
404
,
420

Homosexuality,
676
,
677–8

Honolulu,
565

Hood, Gen. Joseph,
336

Hoover, Herbert Clark (Pres. 1929–33),
492
,
499
,
505
,
509
,
510
,
524
,
525
,
528
,
536–7
,
546
,
620
,
623
,
671
,
683
,
684
,
686

as Food Administrator,
477
,
484
,
487

elected Pres.,
504

and the Depression,
511–18
passim
,
521
,
528–9
,
541
,
543

foreign policy of,
513

Hopkins, Harry L.,
503
,
540–42
,
549
,
569

House, Col. Edward M.,
472
,
474
,
487

House (of Representatives) Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC),
595
,
597
,
600
,
684

House of Representatives,
210
,
257
,
260
,
262n
,
271
,
297
,
301
,
332
,
370
,
456
,
459
,
591
,
667
,
685

gag rule,
296

malapportionment,
410

Ways and Means Committee,
429

Housing,
416
,
505
,
511
,
544
,
588
,
621
,
625
,
644
,
675n
black,
631
,
638
,
640

H. Act, 1949,
641

slum h.,
399–400
,
638
,
641–2

Houston, Gen. Sam,
296
,
310

Houston, Texas,
479
,
637

Howard, Gen. Oliver Otis,
362

Howard Johnson’s,
494

Howard University,
392
,
644