I28 Index
NAACP. SeeNational Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP)
Nabisco, 808
Nader, Ralph, 855, 856
NAFTA. SeeNorth American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Nagasaki, 728f, 730–731, 740
Nagin, C. Ray, 864
Naismith, James, 503
Naphtha, 464
Napoleonic Wars, 586, 616
Narragansett Indians, 39, 45
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass(Douglass), 282
Narváez, Pánfilo de, 23
NASA, 807
Nash, Gary B., 128
Nashville, Tennessee, cholera
epidemic in, 498–499, 499m
Nasser Gamal Abded, 752
Nast, Thomas, 413
Natchez Indians, 54
National American Woman Suffrage
Association (NAWSA), 567
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), 580, 657, 718, 756
National Banking Act, 389
National Baseball League, 503
National Child Labor Committee, 564
National debt, from American
Revolution, 155, 156
National Defense Education Act, 755
National Endowment for the
Arts, 776
National Endowment for the
Humanities, 776
National Football League (NFL), 650
National Gazette, 160
National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry, 475
National heroes, of American
Revolution, 136–137
National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA), 687–688, 690f, 694,
695, 696
National Interstate and Defense
Highway Act, 755
Nationalism
Arab, 631
black, 234, 539
post-Revolutionary, 134–135, 137
railroads and, 341
National Labor Relations Act, 694
National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB), 694
National Labor Union, 478
National Organization for Women
(NOW), 827, 828f
National Origins Act, 640, 672
National Recovery Administration
(NRA), 687–688
National Republican party, 253, 260
National Rifle Association (NRA), 863
National Road, 211, 236
National Tube Company, 467
National Union for Social Justice, 693
National War Labor Board (NWLB),
622, 716
National Woman’s Party (NWP), 647
National Woman Suffrage Association
(NWSA), 565
National Youth Administration
(NYA), 691, 701
Nation-states, emergence of, 15
Native Americans. SeeIndian
Americans
Nativism, 493, 495
NATO. SeeNorth Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
Nat Turner’s Rebellion, 326, 327t
Natural Born Killers(film), 837
Naturalization Act, 175
Natural resources, 458
Nauvoo, Illinois, 277–278
Nauvoo Legion, 277
Navajo Indians, 12, 27
Naval War College, 588
Navigation, early, 20–21
Navigation Acts, 84, 100, 101
Navy, U.S.
Jeffersonian policy and, 177
modernization of, 588
post–Civil War, 587
during World war II, 725
Navy Department, creation of, 165
Nazi Germany, 704–705, 707,
724–725
Nebraska, 689
Nelson, Horatio, 186
Neolithic revolution, 5, 8, 12
Nesmith, James, 302
Netherlands
colonization by, 41–42
merchant fleet of, 30
Neutrality acts, 704
Nevada, 445
New Amsterdam, 42, 72, 90
New Bedford, 335
New Deal, 682, 684–711
agricultural policies of, 688, 695
blacks and, 700–701
end of, 696–698
Indians and, 701–702
industrial policies of, 687–688role of Roosevelt in, 702–703
second, 694–695, 695f
significance of, 698–699
social insurance program of, 694
spirit of, 690
success of, 698
Supreme Court and, 694, 695
Tennessee Valley Authority and,
689–690
unemployment policies of,
691–692
women and, 699–700
New England
colonies, 35–40, 56, 65–71
Dominion of, 68, 82
family size in, 272, 274
higher education in, 70–71
industry in, 71
literacy rate in, 324
Monroe in, 209
towns of, 68
utopian communities in, 277f
War of 1812 and, 204
New England Anti-Slavery
Society, 282
New England Emigrant Aid
Society, 356
Newfoundland, 27, 31, 90, 94
New France, 41, 44–45m, 46, 54,
75, 95m
New Freedom, 575–576, 576–578
New Frontier, 761
New Hampshire, 36
colony of, 40
ratification of Constitution by, 152
New Harmony, Indiana, 278
New immigration, 493
New Jersey
battles of, during American
Revolution, 121f
colony of, 42
ratification of Constitution by, 152
slavery in, 132
New Jersey Plan, 147
Newlands Act, 568, 578f
New Lights, 86, 87
New Mexico, 23
annexation of, 306
society in, 54–56
Spanish in, 23–24
statehood for, 297, 315
New Nationalism, 574, 575–576, 690
The New Negro(Locke), 659
New Netherlands, 40, 42, 44–45m
New Orleans, Louisiana, 162
Battle of, 204–205, 385
cholera epidemic in, 498
colony of, 54