270 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS
Apollo 8 mission 232, 244–5
Apollo 11 mission 244
centers 232
Mercury and Gemini missions 244
Nashville 192, 229, 230
Airport 202
“Nation du Chat” 46
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, “Votes for Women a Success:
The Map Proves It” 174 , 175
National Geographic 206
National Geographic Society 242
national identity 98, 100, 118
National Photographic Interpretation Center
234
National Strike Committee 241
National student strike map 240–1, 241
nationalism 32, 34, 122, 232
“Nations du Nort” 46
Native Americans
and British territorial claims 94
Champlain and 46
and colonists 64
conflicts with 136, 160
dispossessed and displaced 124, 130
in Great Plains 151
knowledge of weather conditions 163
lands 87, 102, 158
in Louisiana Territory 132
Miera and 88–9
and missionaries 34
in New England 54
as objects of tourism 199
and reservations 163
in Sacramento Valley 136
John Smith and 34, 41
Tindall’s expedition and 36, 38
trade war with Europeans 72
trade with 79
and Treaty of Greenville 98
Washington and 84
see also Algonquin; Apaches; Catawba; Cher-
okees; Chickasaw; Chocktaw; Comanche;
Creek; Hurons; Iroquois; Lenape; Paiute;
Plains; Powhatan Confederacy; Pueblo;
Seminole; Shawnee; Sioux; Wampanoag
Natural Bridge, VA 199
Nebraska 140, 163, 192
Latino population 252
meat industry in 252
The Negro Motorist Green Book 199
Netherlands
claims to “New Netherland”34-5 52–3
colonization by 11, 53
Dutch in Africa 50, 52
and slave trade 50, 52, 74
in World War II 204, 213
neutrality, policy of 176, 178, 180
Nevada 250
New Amsterdam 34, 52
see also New York
New “Angleterre” 46
“New Britain” 30
New Deal 177, 196, 202, 218, 225
New England 34, 35, 42–3, 43, 54, 54–5, 105,
192, 199
“New France” 43, 46, 87
New Hampshire 64
New “Hollande” 46
New Jersey 136
New Mexico 34, 62, 64, 87, 113, 163
New Netherland 50, 52
New Netherland Company 52
New Orleans
Battle of 148
Clay statue, Canal Street 148
founded by French 64, 68
and Great Flood 218
and highways 229
Jefferson’s offer to purchase 99, 113
under Spanish control 102, 114
in Wallingford map 192
New River 153
New Spain 11, 43, 45, 62
New Testament 128
New York
and aviation 220
Cotton Club 190
as cultural and financial center of US 192
Dutch and English claims to 35, 52–3
and Erie Canal 120–1
film industry in 194
Flushing Meadows 192
Ground Zero 233, 256
harbor 46, 124–5
Harlem, black culture in 176, 190, 190–1, 192
influenza epidemic in 183
Iroquois and 98
labor opportunities in 176
libraries and bookshops in 87
migration from 250
named by English 50
political representation 250
railroad investors 154
reformers in 9
Savoy Ballroom 190
Small’s Paradise 190
World Trade Center attack 256
World’s Fair (1939) 192
see also Manhattan Island
New York Colony 79
New York (state) 46, 64, 99, 108, 175
New York Times 241
New Yorker 190, 192
Newfoundland 30, 34, 68, 204, 210, 242
Newfoundland Bank 105
newsreels 194
Newsweek 206, 241
Nicholson, Francis 72
Nicolls, Richard 52
Nile, river 12
Nixon, Richard 232, 238, 241, 244
“no-man’s-land” 179
Norfolk and Western Railway 64
Normandy 213
Norris Dam 202
North America, population growth 64–5
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 223
North Carolina 8, 25, 34, 64, 142, 246
Agricultural and Technical College 230
12th congressional district 254, 255
and voting rights 254
North Pole 14, 204, 206, 244
North and South Korea 223
Northampton 54
Northern Pacific Railroad 150, 158–9, 160
Northwest Ordinance 99
Northwest Passage, search for 11, 25, 29, 32,
34–5, 35, 36, 41, 45, 46, 52, 113, 114–15
“Nouveau Mexique” 68
“Nova Brittania” 45
nuclear power 232, 234
Nueces River 134
“Nuova Francia” 62
Nuremberg 21
Nye, Gerald 204
Nye Committee 204
Oglethorpe, James 77
Ohio 99
Latino population 252
National Guard 241
Ohio Country 86
Ohio River 64, 79, 84, 86, 99, 102, 106, 154
Valley 64, 65, 68, 80, 84, 86, 94, 113
oil refining industry 252
Oklahoma 130, 134
meat industry in 252
Oñate, Juan de 34, 62
Ontario, Lake (“Lac St. Louis”) 46, 120Opechancanough, Chief 41, 45
Orange County, California 226
Ord, E.O.C. (Edward) 136
“Topographical Sketch of the Gold &
Quicksilver District of the Gold & Quicksilver
District of California, July 25th, 1848” 136,
137
Oregon 124, 133, 134
as free territory 141
Willamette Valley 132
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company 158
Oregon Territory 122
Oregon Trail 132–3, 133, 134
Organization of American States 236
Ortelius, Abraham 30
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 17
O’Sullivan, John 122
Oswald, Sir Richard 94–7
Ottawa River 46
Owens River 186–7
Valley 187
Oxford, Mississippi 234
Pacific Ocean
in early maps 25, 29, 41, 89, 114–15, 122
in Harrison’s map 206
passage to see Northwest Passage,
search for
railroad route to 158
US expansion to 125, 133, 136, 151
Pacific War 223
Padrón Real 21
Pagano, Matteo 26
Paiute Indians 186
Palmer, William Robert 142
Pamlico Sound 25
Pan-Germanism 180
Panama Canal 151, 172–3, 172–3, 202, 245
Panama Railway 173
Paris 46, 106, 220
Eiffel Tower 213
Treaty of (1763) 8, 97, 98
Park, Robert 188
parks
national 160, 199
theme 226
Pearl Harbor attack 206, 210
Peirce, Charles Sanders 168
Peñalosa, Diego de 62
Penn, William 35, 54, 56–8
Pennsylvania State University 248
Pennell, Joseph, and Armour and Company,
“Armour’s Food Source Map” 184–5, 185
Pennsylvania 35, 64, 80, 86, 98, 118, 152, 157,
175, 224
Pennsylvania Railroad 150
Penobscot Bay 43
Percy, George 36, 38
Percy, Lord Hugh 91
Perkins History Museum 128
Peru 234
Philadelphia
African American population 9, 150–1, 168
in Buell’s map 100, 100–1
as capital of USA 106
and Declaration of Independence 8, 88
immigration to 124–5
influenza epidemic in 183
labor opportunities in 176
libraries and bookshops in 87
Melish in 122
Penn and 54
railroad investors 154
Seventh Street 168
Philip II, King 29, 30
Philip, King (Metacomet) 54
Philippines 151, 170
Phillips, Kevin 250
photography
aerial 218, 221, 232, 234of Earth 232, 242, 244–5, 244 , 245
Phrygian cap 100
Pierce, Sarah 118
Pig Pine, California 66
Pike, Zebulon 89
Pine Ridge Reservation 160
Pinkerton, John 118
Pittsburgh 84
labor opportunities in 176
railroad workers’ strike 150
steel production 194
plague 43
Plains tribes 130–1, 132–3, 160
“A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Boston ...”
90–1, 90–1
plantations 50, 64, 72, 74, 77, 80, 124, 139, 141,
147, 152, 218
plate tectonics 9, 232, 242
Platte River 163
Pleiku 238
Plymouth Colony 35, 43, 46, 54
Pocahontas (Native American woman) 35, 43
Pocahontas (town) 154
Poland 216, 217
immigrants from 188
invasion of 204, 206
Polk, James 134, 136
poll taxes 175, 254
Polo, Marco 10, 12
“Popular Vote: Ratio of Predominant to
Total Vote, by Counties ... 1880” 156–7,
156–7
populations
of Americas 10
California 250
density 10
Europe 10
expansion of 64–5, 138
Latino 252, 253
slave 64, 142, 143
social status of 201
of Virginia 80
Portolan atlases 21
Portugal 17, 21, 30, 50, 74
Post Office 99, 108
Postal Service Act (1792) 108
posters 176, 180, 238, 239
Postlethwayt, Malachy 9, 64
“A New and Correct Map of the Coast
of Africa” 74, 74–5, 250
Potomac River 6–7, 80, 86, 106
depth soundings 106, 107
Poupard, James see Franklin, Benjamin
poverty 126, 150, 166, 168, 202, 229
Powell, John Wesley 186
“Arid Region of the United States Showing
Drainage Districts” 151, 162 , 163
Powhatan, Chief 38, 41
Powhatan Confederacy 34, 35, 41, 45
Prague 217
Preuss, Charles, “Topographical Map of the
Road from Missouri to Oregon” 122–3,
132–3, 250
Prohibition 126, 176, 190
repeal of 190
Promontory Point 164
propaganda 66, 176, 180, 223, 225, 238
prostitution 164
Protestantism 102, 139
Ptolemy, Claudius 11, 12, 17
public health crisis 182, 233
Public Health Service, “Chronological Map
of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918” 182–3,
182–3
public works 177
Pueblo Revolt 64
Pueblo tribes 10, 29, 34, 88
Puerto Rico 151
Puget Sound 158, 182
Puritans 35, 43, 46, 52, 54