Penguin History of the United States of America (143 page)

Liberties
,
46

Laws and Liberties,
46n

Mather, Rev. Cotton,
63n
,
89
,
91
,
102

Mather, Rev. Increase,
63

Mauduit, Jasper,
115

Mauldin, Bill,
573n

Maury, Rev. James,
124

Mayflower
,
37
,
396

Mayflower
Compact,
40

Meade, Gen. George

Gordon,
336
,
340

Meany, George,
421n
,
603

Meat Inspection Act,
454

Meat–packing industry,
390
,
454
,
491n

Mellon, Andrew,
492
,
499
,
501
,
505–6
,
508
,
609

Melville, Herman,
396

Memphis, Term.,
325
,
352
,
464
,
643

Mencken, Henry Louis,
33
,
139n
,
491n

Mendes–France, Pierre,
648

Mengistu Haile Mariam,
681

Mercantilism,
80–86
,
114
,
156
,
157
,
191
,
258
,
394
,
513
,
578

Merchant marine,
83
,
235
,
251

Merchants, American,
96
,
145
,
190
,
199
,
226
,
228
,
257
,
446

in A. Revolution,
130
,
146–8
,
152–3
,
155
,
157

Merchants, British (Scottish and English),
123
,
132n
,
133
,
189

Meredith, James,
632

Merrimac
and
Monitor
, Battle of,
325

Messersmith, Ambassador

George,
554
,
557

Methodists,
91
,
232
,
303

Mexico City,
297

Mexico, Mexicans,
5
,
8
,
52
,
63
,
168
,
238
,
240
,
276
,
279
,
296
,
297
,
316
,
379
,
405
,
442
,
475

M. Revolution,
468–9

Miami,
678

Miami, Honda,
505
,
631

Michigan,
230

Middle class
see
Class, middle

Middle Passage,
102–3
,
102n

Middle West,
230n
,
291
,
293
,
397
,
456
,
465
,
539

Midway, Battle of,
571
,
572

Migration
(see also
Immigrants
),
3–4
,
17
,
17n
,
60
,
93
,
394
,
405

internal,
219
,
402
,
494
,
503–4
,
566–7
,
611

Military Reconstruction Act,
359

Militia,
190
,
193
,
225
,
316
,
361
,
405

British,
126n

performance,
120–21

in A. Revolution, I26n,
165

in War of A. Revolution,
126n
,
165
,
181

in Civil War,
319
,
321
,
323

Milk, Harvey,
677

Milliken’s Bend, Battle of,
333

Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
397

Miners, Cornish,
396

Minneapolis, Minnesota,
596

Minnesota,
290
,
397
,
427
,
456
,
659
,
672n

Minorca,
182

Minuit, Peter,
35

Minute Men,
165

Missionaries,
437
,
441
,
468
,
562
,
597

Mississippi river,
52
,
67
,
93
,
108
,
185
,
187
,
191
,
225
,
226
,
229
,
237
,
238
,
240
,
245
,
283

Mississippi,
state
,
67
,
227
,
240
,
245
,
282
,
283
,
286
,
294
,
298
,
307
,
311

in Civil War,
245
,
325
,
358

under Reconstruction,
352–3
,
360
,
362–3

and civil rights movement,
632
,
635
,
636

Mississippi, University of,
632–3

Missouri,
225
,
233
,
236
,
245
,
270
,
294–5
,
301
,
305
,
306
,
379
,
613
,
625
,
672

in Civil War,
245
,
316
,
329

Jackson County,
236

Missouri Compromise,
212
,
294
,
302
,
304
,
306

Missouri Crisis,
294
,
693n

Missouri river,
108
,
225
,
240
,
301
,
377
,
422

Mitchell, Arthur W.,
621

Mitchell, Charles E.,
509

Mobility

geographical,
108
,
495
,
640

social,
108
,
640

Molasses,
83n
,
124

M. Act,
92

Molly Maguires,
417

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
575
,
590

Mondale, Vice-pres. Walter,
672n

Monetarism,
675
,
687

‘Monkey Trial’,
432

Monroe, James (Pres. 1817–25),
66
,
255
,
256
,
268
,
270
,
271

Monroe Doctrine,
255–6
,
436
,
437
,
438
,
452
,
468
,
486
,
602
,
604

Montana,
69
,
380
,
515

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat de,
76
,
105
,
209

Montgomery, Alabama,
311
,
319
,
628
,
632
,
636

Montgomery Ward,
386
,
510

Monticello, Virginia,
104
,
262
,
269

Montreal,
8
,
187

Morgan, House of (J. P. Morgan & Co.),
391
,
431
,
446
,
458
,
488
,
510
,
524
,
558

Morgan, Iwan M.,
689n

Morgan, John Pierpont,
388
,
390–91
,
392
,
430
,
446
,
451
,
453
,
455
,
459
,
462
,
506
,
530
,
531n

Morgenthau, Henry,
528
,
548
,
569
,
578

Mormons,
232–45
,
291
,
293n
,
588
,
611
,
676

Morris, Gouverneur,
195
,
200

Morris, Robert,
195
,
494–5

Morse, Samuel,
378

Moscone, George,
677

Moses, Robert,
494–5

Mount Hood,
542

Mount Vernon, Virginia,
150
,
170
,
185

Mountain Meadows massacre,
243

Movies (
see also
Hollywood
),
248
,
495
,
580

Muck-rakers,
450
,
454

Mugwumps,
412–14
,
458

Munich crisis,
556
,
557
,
582
,
604

Murfreesboro, Battle of,
333

Music,
102
,
415

Mussolini, Benito,
529
,
530
,
549
,
558

My Fair Lady
,
641n

Myrdal, Gunnar,
629

Nagasaki,
585

Nashville, Term.,
226
,
227
,
342

Battle of N.,
333
,
342

Nation, American, idea of,
131
,
173
,
195
,
257–8

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
676

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
619–20
,
624
,
626
,
629
,
632
,
633
,
634
,
644
,
675

National Defense Advisory Committee,
623

National Guard,
573
,
628
,
632
,
643
,
662

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA),
526
,
530
,
533

Section 7(a),
531
,
534

quoted
,
530

National Labor Relations Act
see
Wagner Act

National Organization of Women (NOW),
676
,
678
,
680

National Recovery Administration (NRA),
526
,
531–5
,
537
,
541
,
569
,
618

National Republican party,
275

National Security Council,
553

National Women’s Political Caucus,
678

Nationalism, American,
204
,
279
,
385
,
414
,
439
,
495
,
674

Native (white) Americans,
303
,
304
,
395
,
403
,
415
,
421
,
448

Nativism,
403–6
,
427
,
438
,
444

Nauvoo, Illinois,
236
,
237
,
240
,
245

Naval stores,
83n
,
84

Navigation Acts, English,
82
,
164
,
187

effects of,
84–5

enforcement of,
114
,
155

opposition to,
129–30

provisions of,
83
,
123

Navigation laws, American,
188
,
198–9

Navy, Royal,
11
,
84
,
92
,
250
,
251–2
,
253
,
255
,
438
,
439
,
440

in A. Revolution,
149
,
168
,
182
,
184

conditions,
127–8

impressment,
128

and Navigation Acts,
114

in Stamp Act crisis,
131

and White Pine Acts,
118

in First World War,
469–70
,
477
,
484

Navy, US,
203
,
385
,
455
,
553

in A. Revolution,
182

in war of 1812,
254

in Civil War,
319
,
325

in First World War,
472
,
477

in Second World War,
565–6
,
571
,
574

since 1945,
587
,
653

Nazi-Soviet pact,
558
,
578

Nebraska

state
,
241n
,
379
,
380
,
422
,
431
,
456

territory
,
302
,
304
,
307

Netherlands,
11
,
34
,
35
,
94
,
204
,
250
,
261
,
472
,
652

Neutral rights,
251

Neutrality Acts,
554
,
555

Nevada,
297
,
688n

New Amsterdam
see
New York

New Deal,
178
,
242
,
522–59
,
560
,
566
,
567
,
568
,
570
,
587
,
594
,
596
,
602
,
672
,
684
,
685

and blacks,
620
,
625

‘Black Monday’,
533–5
,
546

New Dealers,
537
,
545
,
549
,
569

and the South,
617

New Denmark,
7

New England,
7
,
18
,
20n
,
26
,
30–50
,
53
,
63
,
84
,
92
,
94
,
101
,
166
,
173
,
176
,
179
,
181
,
183
,
187
,
198
,
199
,
230–31
,
233
,
261
,
274
,
286
,
291
,
538
,
616