I34 Index
Reconstruction (continued)
white backlash against, 403,
422–424
Reconstruction Acts, 410
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(RFC), 678
Red Cloud, 438
Redcoats.SeeBritish troops
In Re Debs, 545f
Red Jacket(ship), 336f
Red scare, 634–635
Reed, Donna, 827
Reed, John, 560, 560f
Reep, Ed, 713
Referendums, 543
Reformatories, 279
Reform movements
abolitionism, 281–283
in cities, 561
city bosses and, 541
civil rights movement. SeeCivil
rights movement
in education, 515
in late-nineteenth century,
473–475
in mid-nineteenth century, 276,
278–280
progressivism and, 556–557,
561–567
Prohibition, 652–653
social reform, 506–507, 563–565
in states, 561, 563
Teddy Roosevelt and, 571–572
temperance movement, 280–281
woman suffrage movement,
565–567
women’s rights, 283–285
during World War I, 624
Regent University, 842
Regional cultures, 320–321
Regulators, 65
Regulator War, 144–145
Rehnquist, William, 853
Reign of Terror, 160, 190–191
Religion
See alsoChristianity
in colonies, 85–88
corn-cultivating peoples, 8
decline in church membership
and, 841–842
Enlightenment and, 88
evolution and, 524
freedom of, 131
freedom of, in colonies, 40
fundamentalism, 651–652
Johnson and, 407–409
in mid-nineteenth century,
274–278
of puritans, 67
science and, 523–524
slave, 326
televangelists and, 841f, 842
Religious colonies, 276–278
Religious conservatives, 806–807
Religious freedom, 495
Religious literature, 290–291
Remini, Robert, 261
Reno, Janet, 851
Rensselaerswyck, 42
Reparations, for World War I, 630, 674
Report on Manufactures(Hamilton),
157, 232
Report on the Public Credit
(Hamilton), 156
Representative government, 131
Republican party
during Civil War, 377–378
currency issue and, 533
election of 1856 and, 357–358
election of 1860 and, 364
election of 1876 and, 426–427
election of 1896 and, 546,
548–549
election of 1912 and, 574–576
election of 1924 and, 670–671
election of 1936 and, 695
election of 1948 and, 743–744
election of 1994 and, 852
formation of, 355
health care reform and, 874
in late-nineteenth century, 531
League of Nations and, 632–634
Liberal Republicans in, 424–425
in post–Civil War period, 533
Radical Republicans in, 406,
407, 409
slavery and, 355
in South, 416–417, 417m, 425
southern strategy of, 806m
Republicans (Democratic)
in 1800 election, 172
election of 1796 and, 164
formation of party, 160
XYZ Affair and, 165
Republic of Korea, 745–747
Republic of Texas, 299
Retail industry
in 1920s, 675
competition and monopoly in,
470–471
Internet and, 840
malls and, 839–840
Reuben, J., 673
Revere, Paul, 105f, 114
Revolutionary War. SeeAmerican
RevolutionRhigolene, 464
Rhode Island
colony of, 38, 40
ratification of Constitution by,
149, 153
Rice, 12, 62, 258
Richardson, Elliot, 790
Richmond, Virginia, 404, 404f
Richmond and West Point Terminal
Company, 460
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 621
Right-to-life movement, 829–832
Riis, Jacob, 491f, 497, 507f
Riots and uprisings
draft riots, 384–385
Harpers Ferry, 362
Haymarket riots, 480
race riots, 408f, 718–719,
777–778, 777f, 836
Shays’s Rebellion, 144–145
slave, 326, 327t
Stonewall riot, 832
Whiskey Rebellion, 161
The Rise of Silas Lapham
(Howells), 520
Risk-taking gene, 52–53
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 808
RJR Nabisco, 808
On the Road (Kerouac), 778
Roads
construction of, 235–236, 660
government and, 236
Roanoke colony, 31
Robards, Lewis, 249f
Robber Barons, 458
Roberts, Ed, 810
Roberts, Oral, 842
Roberts, Owen J., 696
Robertson, Pat, 842
Robespierre, 191
Robinson, Edgar E., 698
Robinson, Jackie, 756, 756f
Robinson, John, 35
Robocop(film), 837
Rochambeau, Comte de, 127
Roche, Martin, 501
Rochester, New York, apprentice
system in, 226
Rock, Chris, 402–403
Rockefeller, John D., 464f, 469,
474, 634
Standard Oil Company and,
468–470, 473
University of Chicago and, 513
Rockefeller National City Bank, 481
Rodgers, Daniel, 569
Rodney, Sir George, 127
Roebling, John A., 501