I32 Index
Pontiac’s Rebellion, 97, 100
Pope, John, 24, 382
Popular culture
in 1920s, 647–649
violence and, 837–838
Popular magazines, 525
Popular music, 837–838
Popular sovereignty, 310, 353,
356, 358
Population
in mid-nineteenth century, 273m
Old World, 13m
rural vs. urban, 270f
Population growth
19th-century, 209, 229–230, 230m
among corn-cultivating peoples,
9–10
in colonies, 66, 96
Eurasia, 12
Europe, 14, 25, 27
in nineteenth century, 272
Population loss, in South, 642m
Populism, Tea Party and, 547
Populist movement, 542–543, 542f
election of 1896, 550–551
election of 1896 and, 546, 549
falling farm prices and, 550
in Texas, 550, 551m
Port Huron Statement, 779–780
Port Moresby, 728
The Portrait of a Lady (James), 521
Port Royal, Nova Scotia, 90
Portsmouth, Treaty of, 603
Portugal, 22, 27
Portuguese explorers, 20–21
Posters, World War I, 621f, 626f
Potato, 25
Potato famine, 332m
Potsdam Conference, 733–734
Pound, Ezra, 655
Poverty
among Latinos, 823
during Great Depression,
678–680
in Jacksonian America, 270
in late-nineteenth century,
489, 489f
in mid-nineteenth century, 334
of Native Americans, 434–435
Social Gospel and, 504–506
urban, 332–333
urban, in late nineteenth century,
497–500
urban reformers and, 504–507
war on, 772–773
Poverty Point, 5
Powderly, Terence V., 478, 490
Powell, Colin, 859
Powell, John Wesley, 453
Power, division of, 147
Powers, Hiram, 346f
Powhatan, 33
Powhatan Indians, 33–34
Pownall, Thomas, 89, 95
Pragmatism, 523–525
Preble, Edward, 177
Predestination, 35, 274
Presbyterians, 35, 86
Prescott, Cynthia Culver, 303
Presidency
Constitutional provisions for, 172
creation of, 148
President, election of, 148
Presidential elections
of 1796, 163–164
of 1800, 172m
of 1804, 176, 181
of 1808, 196
of 1812, 198
of 1816, 209
of 1820, 209
of 1824, 214f, 218, 249
in 1828, 246–247
of 1828, 249–250, 250m
of 1832, 252, 253–254
of 1836, 262
of 1840, 263
of 1844, 304
of 1848, 310–311
of 1856, 357–358
of 1860, 363–365, 363m, 365t
of 1864, 392
of 1868, 411–412
of 1872, 424–425
of 1876, 425–427, 426m
of 1880, 534f
of 1884, 535–536
of 1888, 536
of 1892, 542–543
of 1896, 546, 548–549, 550–551,
551 m
of 1900, 597
of 1904, 571
of 1908, 573
of 1912, 574–576, 581
of 1916, 618–619
of 1920, 635–636
of 1924, 670–671
of 1928, 674–675
of 1932, 680–682, 681m
of 1936, 695
of 1940, 706–707
of 1948, 743–744
of 1952, 749
of 1960, 758, 760–761, 760m
of 1964, 773
of 1968, 782–783
of 1972, 787of 1976, 799–800
of 1980, 804–805
of 1984, 806
of 1988, 813
of 1992, 850–851
of 1996, 852
of 2000, 584, 855–856
of 2004, 860, 862
of 2008, 246, 344, 528, 796,
868–869, 871
voter turnout or, 528–529
Presidential powers, 148
President’s Levee(Cruikshank),
246–247f
Presidios, 55
Press freedom, 75
Press gangs. SeeImpressment
Prevost, George, 202–203
Price leaders, 675
Primary system, 563
Primogeniture, 131
Princeton College, 87
Princip, Gavrilo, 613
Principles of Polity (Pownall), 89
Principles of Psychology(James), 524
Pring, Martin, 48
Printing press, 15, 15f, 70
Prison population, 837
Prisons, 279
Privacy, 843, 844
Privy Council, 82
Proclamation of 1763, 97m,
100, 109
“Proclamation to the People of
South Carolina” (Jackson), 259
Professional sports, 502–503,
649–651
Professions, 88
in South, 64
women and, 513
Profiles in Courage(Kennedy), 766
Progress and Poverty(George), 473
Progressive education, 515
Progressive era
legislation of, 578f
social reform in, 563–565
Progressive party
election of 1924 and, 671
election of 1948 and, 744
Progressivism
ideals of, 558
minority rights and, 578–579
political reform and, 561–567
Prohibition and, 652–653
radical, 559–561
roots of, 556–557
Teddy Roosevelt and, 567–572
of Wilson, 576–578
during World War I, 624