An American History

INDEX ★ A-135

Ulysses (Joyce), 798

Uncle Sam, 646 , 770

Underwood Tariff (1913), 731

unemployment, 706, 729, 731, 846, 854,

862, 873, 942, 988, 998, 1045, 1048,

1063, 1085, 1095 , 1129, 1135, 1139,

1141, 1142

of African-Americans, 1000, 1142

African-Americans and, 849, 1095

Great Depression and, 812, 813 , 814,

815, 825–26, 833, 842

insurance, 837, 846, 847, 850, 1134–35

of Latinos, 1018

in 1990s, 1082

public spending to combat, 844, 845

Second New Deal and, 835, 837, 845 ,

858, 859

in Soviet Union, 822

in 2001, 1120

Unintended Legacy (Goshorn), 1099

Union League, 590, 592, 748

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, see

Soviet Union

Union Pacific Railroad, 630

unions, 645, 657, 676, 708–9, 769, 770 ,

787, 790, 796, 813, 830–33, 852, 854,

855, 894, 906, 933, 943, 954, 955,

1004, 1046–47, 1062, 1086, 1139,

1151

African-Americans and, 761, 765, 766,

855, 894, 896, 969, 988

blacklisting organizers of, 837

Brandeis and, 704

Clinton and, 1078

company unions vs., 787

consumerism and, 703

counterculture and, 1009

discrimination by, 1015

in election of 1936, 841

emergence of, 831

Ford and, 702

in Great Britain, 1057

in Great Depression, 830–33, 831

highways and, 960

Homestead strike and, 649–50

industrialism and, 610

Ku Klux Klan and, 803

Latinos and, 1018

membership in, 832, 875–76, 1086

NAFTA and, 1076

New Deal and, 825, 858, 859

in 1950s, 960

Nixon and, 1034

Troubles, The, 1026
Troy, N.Y., manufacturing in, 606
Trujillo Molina, Rafael (1891–1961), 864
Truman, Harry S. (1884–1972), 882,
898–99, 900, 902, 906, 907, 909–10,
1078, 1112
African-Americans and, 924–26
anticommunism and, 933, 935
Berlin airlift and, 912
in campaign of 1948, 926–27
civil rights and, 924–25, 972, 978
communist China and, 914
decolonization and, 917
Fair Deal and, 922
Korean War and, 914
national health car and, 920
presidency of, 922–27, 957
strikes and, 923–24
Vietnam and, 963, 964
Truman administration, 907, 909, 914–15,
916, 922–27, 929, 930, 934, 935, 959,
1006
Native Americans and, 1019
Truman Doctrine, 909–10, 929, 935, 954
Trumbo, Dalton (1905–1976), 929
Trumbull, Lyman (1813–1896), 582, 597
trusts, business, 608, 725, 728, 731, 747,
786, 883
and antitrust laws, 731, 883
see also monopolies; Sherman Antitrust
Act (1890)
Tugwell, Rexford G., 828
Tulsa, Okla., race riot in, 767
Tunisia, uprising in, 1146
Turkey, 678, 742, 910, 990
missiles removed from, 990
Turner, Benjamin S., 591
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 613–14
Tuskegee Institute, 673
TVA, see Tennessee Valley Authority
TV dinner, 947
Twain, Mark (1835–1910), 587, 629–30, 684
Tweed, “Boss” William M. (1823–1878), 630
Tweed Ring, 595, 630
Twentieth Amendment, 841
Twenty-first Amendment, 829
Twenty-fourth Amendment, 996
Tyco International, 1084
typewriter, 608

U-2 spy plane, 962
UAW, see United Auto Workers
UFW, see United Farm Workers