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in Second World War,
571-2
,
573
,
575
,
58
o and postwar settlement,
577
,
578-82
,
590

in cold war,
584-5
,
587
,
590-94
,
595-7
,
600
,
601
,
609
,
630-31
,
646
,
647
,
651

collapse of,
645
,
692
,
693

and nuclear weapons,
586

and Korean War,
606
,
607

and detente,
611

and Vietnam War,
653

human rights,
671
,
681

invasion of Afghanistan,
681
,
690
,
692

and Nicaragua,
691

disarmament negotiations,
692

Space exploration,
612

Spain, Spanish (
see also
Spanish-American War
),
5
,
6
,
7
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
34
,
52
,
53
,
55
,
63
,
66
,
85
,
110-11
,
156
,
203
,
204
,
219
,
225
,
241
,
250
,
251
,
394

and A. Revolution,
133
,
165
,
168
,
181
,
185
,
1793-1820,
186-7

Spanish Civil War,
554
,
555

Spanish America,
28
,
52
,
85
,
102

Speaker of the House of Representatives,
408
,
456
,
618
,
667

Spice-trade,
4–5

Spies, atomic,
586
,
596

Spindletop, Texas,
392

Spoils system (
see also
Patronage
),
265
,
267–9
,
278
,
301
,
354
,
399
,
408
,
410
,
426

Spotsylvania Court-House, Battle of,
340

Springfield, Ill.,
433
,
620

Springfield, Mass.,
190
,
193

Spruance, Admiral Raymond,
571

Squatters, land,
112

Stalin, Josef,
549
,
556
,
561
,
571
,
575
,
579–82
,
586
,
589
,
590
,
591
,
593
,
604
,
605
,
648

Stalinism,
577
,
600

Stamp Act, Colonial,
153
,
161

passage through Parliament,
115–16

provisions,
116
,
143

colonial objections to,
116–17

resistance to,
125–32
,
146

repeal of,
132–3
,
142
,
192

Stamp Act Congress,
126
,
131

Stamp Act crisis,
80
,
114–34
,
136
,
137
,
143
,
144
,
146
,
148
,
303

Standard Oil,
389
,
390
,
391
,
411
,
424
,
431
,
453
,
455

Standard Oil New Jersey,
558

Standing army, distrust of,
119
,
146
,
150
,
152
,
154
,
193

Stanford, Leiand,
423

Stanton, Edwin,
313
,
314
,
321
,
326
,
347
,
355

‘Star-spangled banner’,
619

Stassen, Gov. Harold,
608

State Department,
553
,
554
,
556
,
563
,
581
,
594
,
598
,
599
,
602
,
603
,
608
,
611

State, Secretaries of,
249
,
255
,
271
,
300
,
305
,
553
,
651
,
663

State sovereignty,
315

States’ rights,
205
,
243
,
317
,
335
,
348
,
35
O,
615
,
628

r. to secede (
see also
Secession
),
314

Steamboats,
229
,
250
,
378
,
379
,
453

Steel industry,
385
,
390–91
,
420
,
445
,
567

Steerage,
396
,
397–8

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton,
335

Stevens, Cong. Thaddeus,
350
,
355
,
358
,
359

Stevenson, Gov. Adlai Ewing,
608
,
612

Stewart, James,
220

Stilwell, Gen. Joseph Warren,
650

Stimson, Henry Lewis,
513
,
559

Stock market,
387
,
390
,
446
,
464
,
495
,
514
,
688

‘water’,
387n

Stone, Chief Justice Harlan Fiske,
546
,
548

Stonewall riots (1969),
677

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
285
,
293
,
300
,
332

Strategic Air Command,
587

Stuart, Gen. James Ewell Brown (‘Jeb’),
336

Stuart, house of,
76
,
155
,
162n

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
630

Submarine warfare,
471
,
473–7
passim
,
474
,
555

Suburbs,
401
,
494
,
612
,
642
,
643

Suffolk Resolves,
163

Suffrage, black,
363

Sugar,
83
,
84
,
100–101
,
226

Sugar Act,
114
,
117
,
16

unpopularity of,
122
,
124–5

provisions of,
124

and price of rum,
129

Sumner, Sen. Charles,
285
,
301
,
350
,
351

beaten up,
305

Sun Belt,
587
,
595

Sun Yat-sen,
597

Sunbelt,
672

Supreme Court of the United States (
see also
Judicial Supremacy
),
211–13
,
306
,
308
,
409
,
414
,
429
,
455
,
476
,
532–4
,
538
,
541
,
545
,
568
,
569
,
623
,
644
,
665
,
676
,
678

F. D. Roosevelt’s attack on,
546–8
,
550

and racial discrimination,
620
,
621
,
623
,
624–5
,
628

Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery
,
18

Susquehanna river,
95
,
95n

Sutherland, Mr Justice George,
546

Sweden, Swedes,
12
,
95n
,
108
,
246
,
395
,
402

Swedenborg, Emanuel,
232

Symington, Sen. Stuart,
613

Taft, Sen. Robert Alonso,
575
,
592
,
594
,
600
,
608
,
609
,
686

Taft, William Howard (Pres. 1909–
31
),
455
,
459
,
460
,
463
,
468
,
483
,
575

Chief Justice,
546
,
600

Taft–Hartley Act,
594

Taiwan (Formosa),
596
,
651

Tallmadge, Cong. James,
294

Tallulah, Louisiana,
404

Tammany Hall,
399–400
,
410
,
412
,
414
,
502

Tammany, Saint,
399n

Taney, Chief Justice Roger,
306

Tariffs,
264
,
271
,
278
,
298
,
308
,
340
,
381
,
443
,
456
,
492
,
535–6
,
553

state,
188

of Abominations,
295

and Civil War,
312
,
384

and the parties,
429

McKinley,
429

Underwood,
461
,
464
,
492

Fordney-McCumber,
492
,
496
,
512

Smoot-Hawley,
512

and New Deal,
529

and Japan,
562

Tarleton, Banastre,
183

Taxation (
see also
Stamp Act
Crisis),
45
,
78
,
112
,
113
,
142–3
,
169
,
358
,
359
,
394
,
401
,
402n
,
423
,
492
,
493
,
515
,
670
,
687

land tax, British,
86
,
143
,
166

customs,
193

and US Constitution,
199
,
203
,
205
,
214
,
430

income tax, federal,
212
,
426
,
429
,
477

New Deal and t.,
528
,
541
1920s,
492
,
505

as political issue,
193
,
427
,
429

processing t.,
537

tax–revolt,
675

unpopularity of in A.,
189
,
265
,
322

Taylor, Frederick Winslow,
447

Taylor, Gen. Zachary (Pres. 1849–50),
297
,
298–9

Tea Act,
157–60
,
303
,
304

Tea duty (
see also
Townshend laws
),
147
,
158
,
192

Teapot Dome affair,
500

Technology (
see also
Industrial Revolution
),
5
,
220
,
385
,
404
,
405
,
423
,
437
,
438
,
494
,
554
,
586
,
587
,
637
,
655
,
663

and Civil War,
322

Tecumseh,
55
,
65
,
254

Teenagers,
679

Tehran hostages,
682–3

Telegraph, electric,
246
,
301
,
378
,
394
,
427
,
500

Telephones,
427
,
544

Television,
268
,
595–6
,
598
,
603
,
656–7
,
659

Temperance movement (
see also
Prohibition
),
292
,
304
,
465

Tenancy, Southern,
365–6
,
396
,
422
,
539
,
617
,
618
,
622

‘Tenement Trail’,
401

Tennessee,
223
,
226
,
229
,
232
,
270
,
271
,
275
,
303
,
319
,
349
,
355
,
418
,
432
,
504

in Civil War,
245
,
316
,
325
,
333
,
340
,
342

Tennessee Iron and Coal Co.,
445

Tennessee river,
187
,
325

valley,
226

Muscle Shoals,
526

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
526
,
544
,
558
,
570
,
618
,
621

Tenure of Office Act (1820),
268

Territories
see
Government
,
territorial

Texas,
40
,
240
,
241
,
246
,
247
,
279
,
296–7
,
299
,
305
,
310
,
311
,
379
,
380
,
392
,
422
,
425
,
433
,
504
,
513
,
538
,
587
,
634
,
661
,
672

Textile industry,
381
,
503
,
532
,
616
,
618

Thailand,
648
,
651

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