An American History

INDEX ★ A-125

Reform Bureau, 643

Refregier, Anton, 925

Regents of the University of California v.

Bakke, 1036, 1126

regulatory power, 790

rise of U.S. government, 726, 824,

841–44, 858, 997, 998

Rehnquist, William (1924–2005), 1127

Reid, Wallace (1892–1923), 796

religion, 735, 1100, 1106

of African-Americans, rise in, 568, 570

Cold War and, 953–54

as conflict source, 1125

counterculture and, 1013–14

divisiveness of, 1125

fundamentalist, 799–801

media and, 834–35

nationalism and, 1151–52

and Prohibition, 752

radio and, 834–35

social reform and, 643–44

temperance and, 643

see also specific denominations

religious freedom, 889

communism and, 953–54

Four Freedoms and, 862, 876, 903

Fourteenth Amendment and, 807

fundamentalism vs., 801

September 11 terrorist attacks and, 1112

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

and, 920

see also diversity; pluralism

religious right, 1053–54, 1057

see also Christian Right

rendition, Bush administration and, 1119

Reno, Janet (1938–), 1076

Reno, Milo, 813

“Report on Economic Conditions in the

South,” 857

reproductive rights, 1017, 1024, 1026–27,

1137

Republican Party (modern), 630, 631, 642,

654, 657–58, 790–91, 805, 852, 854,

858, 867, 876, 914, 926, 927, 930,

933, 936, 957, 959–60, 992, 995,

1006, 1008, 1010, 1032, 1048, 1056,

1069, 1078, 1081, 1084, 1121, 1135,

1136, 1138, 1147–48

as anti-immigrant, 1099–1100, 1110

black members of, 663

black voters and, 590

in campaign of 1960, 979

Christianity aligned with, 1031, 1100

Clinton and, 1076

recessions, economic:
of 1974–75, 1047
of 1991, 1074, 1082
of 2001, 1084, 1120
of 2007, 1128, 1129, 1132 , 1141
of 2008–9, 1141
African-Americans and, 1142
Reaganomics and, 1062
Reconstruction, 564–602, 578 , 599 , 624,
635, 653, 763 , 1103
African-Americans in, 566–74, 575–78,
582, 585–87, 590–92, 659, 661, 662,
664–66, 762, 863, 924
battle over, 579–80
black officeholders during, 591–92
“black supremacy” during, 594
Johnson’s policies in, 573, 579–84
Ku Klux Klan in, 665, 762, 802
overthrow of, 594–601
public schools in, 593
radical, 579–94
railroads built in, 594
Redeemers and, 659
segregation in, 664–66
violence in, 595–96
white farmers in, 574
women’s rights and, 587–88
see also Presidential Reconstruction;
Radical Reconstruction; Second
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act (1867), 584, 590
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 815
Red Cross, 893
Redeemers, 598–99, 659–60
Red Line Agreement, 795
Red Menace, The (movie), 918, 919
Red Monday, 1021
Red Power, 1019
Red Scare, 770–71, 779, 780, 810
Red Square, 1068
Reedy, William M., 713
referendum, initiative and, 717
reform, 581, 720–21, 730–31, 858
in Gilded Age, 632–36, 643–44
and immigrants, 758
maternalist, 722–24, 837
middle class and, 641
and Prohibition, 751–52
Protestants and, 643–44
religion and, 643–44
segregation and, 763
sexual freedom and, 788
temperance and, 643
Reform Act, British (1884), 630