The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

A8 Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or ...

Amendments to the Constitution A9 voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of v ...

A10 Amendments to the Constitution Section 2 The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. A ...

Amendments to the Constitution A11 Section 2 The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the U ...

A12 Amendments to the Constitution 48 hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within 21 days after receipt of ...

GlossaryGlossary G1 abolitionism (p. 281) Worldwide movement to end slavery. In the United States the term chiefly applies to th ...

G2 Glossary civil rights cases (p. 537) A group of cases in 1883 in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the C ...

constitutional authority in banning slavery from the territories. By declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and mak ...

G4 Glossary gold rush (p. 309) Term for the gold-mining boom in the U.S. western territories in the late 1840s and 1850s. “good ...

joint-stock companies (p. 30) Businesses in which investors pooled capital for specific purposes, such as conducting trade and f ...

G6 Glossary prosperity of the British empire. Mercantilists advocated possession of colonies as places where the mother country ...

Canada, and ten European nations, including Great Britain, France, and West Germany; the Soviet Union countered with the formati ...

G8 Glossary Republican party (p. 355) One of the original two political par- ties, sometimes called “Democratic Republican,” it ...

stagflation (p. 801) A term coined in the 1970s to describe the period’s economic downturn and simultaneous deflation in prices. ...

G10 Glossary United Nations (UN) (p. 732) An international organization, founded in 1945, that sought to promote discussion and ...

XYZ Affair (p. 165) A political furor caused by French diplo- mats who in 1797 demanded a bribe before they would enter into neg ...

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Picture CreditsPicture Credits C1 Feature box icons: American Lives: aurumarcus/iStockphoto.com Re-Viewing the Past: iLexx/iStoc ...

C2 Picture Credits Art Library International. 193 Independence National Historical Park. Chapter 7:194–195 © Geoffrey Clements/C ...

Chapter 13:344–345 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum (ALPLM). 346 (top) Hiram Powers,Greek Slave, 1847. Marble, ...