Index I17World War I and, 613,
616–618, 620
World War II and, 705–706,
722–725
Geronimo, 441
Gerry, Elbridge, 165
Gettysburg campaign, 386–388,
387 m, 393f
Ghana, 756
Ghent, Treaty of (1814), 203, 205,
205–206
Ghettos, 496–497, 501, 657, 658
Ghost dance, 442–443
Gibbons, Thomas, 242
Gibbons v. Ogden, 242, 243, 243f
GI Bill of Rights, 739, 839
Gibney, Richard M., 728
Gienapp, William, 354
Gift taxes, 694–695
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 31
Gilded Age, 518
The Gilded Age(Twain), 519
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 516–517,
516 f, 524f
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 512, 513, 524f
Gingrich, Newt, 852
Ginsberg, Allen, 778
Ginsberg, Ruth Bader, 851
Giuliani, Rudolph, 857
Gladden, Washington, 505–506, 507f
Gladstone, William E., 146
Gladwell, Malcolm, 320
Glasnost, 807
Glass-Steagall Banking Act, 678
Glawson, Curtis E., Jr., 866–867
Gleason, Jackie, 826
Glidden, Joseph F., 453
Global warming, 874–875
Glorieta Pass, Battle of, 379
Glorious Revolution, 68, 82
Glory (film), 396–397
Glyptodonts, 4
Goats, 12
Godoy, Manuel de, 162
Godwin, Parke, 278
Gold
discovery of, in California, 263
European desire for, 48f
from New World, 25, 27, 83
vs. silver, 544–545
supply of, 532f
Gold, Harry, 748
Goldberg, Whoopi, 402, 418
Goldman, Emma, 560, 562, 562f
Goldman Sachs, 869, 871
Gold reserves, 545–546
Gold rush, 309, 311–312, 312f, 437
in California, 443
in Indian country, 440
in post–Reconstruction era,
443–445
Gold standard, 532f, 686–687, 703
Goldwater, Barry M., 773
Golf, 650
Gompers, Samuel, 479
Good, Sarah, 68–69
Good Neighbor policy, 673
Goodnight, Charles, 450
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 773
Goodwyn, Lawrence, 547
Gorbachev, Mikhail S., 807, 813–814
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 174
Gore, Al, election of 2000 and,
855–856
Gorgas, William Crawford, 603
Gorges, Sir Ferninando, 36, 40
Gouge, William, 211
Gough, John B., 281
Gould, Jay, 460, 478, 569
Government regulation
antitrust laws and, 476–477
of business, 472
of railroads, 475–476
Government(s)
under Articles of Confederation,
129–130, 129m, 142–144
branches of, 148–149
business and, 675–676
colonial, 37, 39, 67–68, 74–75,
82–83
municipal, 540–541, 561
representative, 131
state, 130–131
territorial, 135–136
Government spending
during Great Depression, 697
during World War II, 717
Government subsidies, to railroads,
447–449
Governors, colonial, 82
Graham, Sylvester, 285
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR),
493, 532
Grand Theft Auto, 838
Grange, 475
Grange, Harold “Red,” 650
Granger, 476f
Grant, James, 114
Grant, Julia Dent, 405
Grant, Ulysses S.
during Civil War, 379, 388–389,
391–392, 392f
election of 1868 and, 411–412
Fifteenth Amendment and, 414
Panama Canal and, 590
as president, 424–425, 586The Grapes of Wrath(Steinbeck), 692
Graves, Thomas, 127
Gray, Robert, 301
Great Awakening
First, 85–88
Second, 274–276
Great Britain
See alsoAnglo-American relations
American Revolution and,
114–129
Anglican Church, 30
Balfour Declaration by, 631
during Civil War, 379
Civil War and, 586
colonial administration by, 82–83,
96–97, 100–109
colonial wars of, 89–90, 92–93
colonization by, 30–42, 56–58,
57 m
under Cromwell, 68
exploration by, 27, 30–31
Glorious Revolution in, 68, 82
Latin America and, 590
mercantilism and, 83–85
Napoleon and, 186–187
Oregon territory and, 304–305
Protestantism in, 34–35
strains of empire on, 95–96
tensions between Spain and, 31
tensions between U.S. and, 144
trade between colonies and,
83–85, 85f
views of colonists in, 96
wars between France and, 92–93
World War I and, 613, 616–618
World War II and, 705, 706,
707, 722
Great Compromise, 148, 149
Great Depression
bank panic and, 686
Bonus Army during, 679
causes of, 677
Dust Bowl and, 688–689
economic prosperity preceding,
665, 676
effects of, 678–680
extremism during, 692–694
FDR and, 686–690
Hoover and, 677–680
literature of, 692
Mexican Americans in, 679
stock market crash and, 676–677
unemployed during, 691–692,
691 f, 700
Great Eastern(ship), 491
Great English Migration, 34m, 37, 66
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), 655
Great Lakes, 340