Index I23Camelot and, 766
civil rights movement and,
770–771
Clinton and, 850f
Cuban Crises and, 766–768
election of 1960 and,
760–761, 760f
Khrushchev and, 767
New Frontier of, 761
Vietnam War and, 765, 768–769
in west Berlin, 767f
Kennedy, Robert
assassination of, 783
Cuban crises and, 766, 767
election of 1968 and, 782–783
Kent State University, 786, 786f
Kentucky, statehood for, 162–163
Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, 166
Keppler, Joseph, 530
Kerosene, 464, 469
Kerouac, Jack, 778
Kerr, Clark, 780
Kerry, John, 860, 862
Key, David M., 427
Key, Francis Scott, 202–203
Keynes, John Maynard, 695
Keynesian economics, 697, 716
Khrushchev, Nikita, 753f
Cuba and, 755
Cuban missile crisis and, 767–768
Eisenhower and, 752–754
Kennedy and, 767
Kimmel, Husband E., 714
King, Constance, 687f
King, Coretta Scott, 759f
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 759f
assassination of, 777–778
black militancy and, 777
civil rights movement and, 770
life of, 759
Montgomery Bus Boycott and, 758
King George’s War, 90, 93, 97
King James Bible, 35
King Philip’s War, 39–40
King’s College, 88, 137
Kingsley, Zephaniah, 325f
Kingsley plantation, 325f
King’s Mountain, 126
King William’s War, 90, 93
Kirkpatrick, Jean, 806
Kissinger, Henry, 786–787, 788,
798, 800
Kitchen Cabinet, Jackson and, 251
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,
661, 662f
Kivas, 8
Kleeb, John, 272f
Kleindienst, Richard, 790
Knights of Labor, 478
Knights of Reliance, 542
Knowledge revolution, 525–526
Know-Nothing party, 353, 355
Knox, Frank, 706
Knox, Henry, 153–154
Knox, Philander C., 570
Kodak camera, 458
Kolko, Gabriel, 569
Komeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 803
Korean War, 745–747, 747m,
750, 754f
Kosovo, 854
Kremer, “Honest George,” 248
Krimmel, John Lewis, 219f
Kruger, Brittany, 142
Kuhn, Loeb, 466
Ku Klux Klan, 422f, 423, 538f, 639,
653–654, 654f
Kurds, 817, 859
Kuwait, Iraqi invasion of, 815–817
Kyoto Protocol, 874Labor
See alsoWorkers
agricultural, 331
child, 557f, 618, 687–688, 697
as commodity, 480
in North, 331
Labor laws, 334, 563, 564, 618, 697
Labor movement, in mid-nineteenth
century, 334
Labor unions
American Federation of Labor
(AFL), 478–479
decline in, 801
FDR and, 695
during Great Depression, 688
growth of, 478
in mid-nineteenth century,
333–334, 478
militancy by, 479–481
New Deal and, 696–697
post–World War I, 634
reaction to, 479–481
women and, 624–625, 646–647
during World War II, 716
Lafayette, Marquis de, 123–124
La Follette, Robert M., 563, 623,
670–671
Laissez-faire, 471, 473, 476, 514, 525
Lake Erie, Battle of, 200f
Lakwete, Angela, 232f
Lambdin, George Cochran, 429f
Land
in colonies, 58
Indian, 100, 439m, 442f,
443 m, 578pasture, 453
sale of by government, 252, 259
sectional controversy over, 211
War of 1812 and, 197–198
Land Act (1800), 211
Land grants
to colleges and universities, 513
to colonists, 42, 58, 65, 74
Morrill Land Grant Act, 389
to railroads, 338, 442f,
447–448
Landgraves, 40–41
Landing in Tarawa(Gibney), 728f
Landon, Alfred M., 695
Land Ordinance of 1785,
135–136, 136f
Land ordinances, 135–136
Land prices, in post–Civil War
period, 541
Land speculation, in West, 447
Lansing, Robert, 631
Larkin, Oliver, 241f
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, 22
Latin America
See also specific countries
during Cold War, 754–755
dollar diplomacy in, 605–606
Good Neighbor policy in, 673
Monroe Doctrine and, 207–208
U.S. interests in, 586, 589–590
Latinos, 823
Latin Quarter, 655
Latrobe, Benjamin, 211f
Lattimore, Owen, 748
Laud, William, 36
Laurentide Ice Sheet, 6
Law, evolutionary theory and,
515, 518
“Law and order” movement,
836–837, 862
Law enforcement
lack of, in West, 444
in late 20th century, 836–837
Lawrence(ship), 200f
Lawrence, Jacob, 657f
Laws
colonial, 68, 82–83
copyright, 143
federal vs. state, 242
labor, 563
Lawyers, 88
Layoffs, 665
in 1980s, 808–809
Lazarus, Emma, 640
Leadville, Colorado, 444f
League of Nations, 671
creation of, 631
election of 1920 and, 635–636