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Page numbers in italics refer to maps and illustrations.
abolitionists, 112 , 115 , 119 – 22 , 128 ,
134 – 35 , 137 , 140 , 144 , 151
abortion, 283 , 314 – 15
Abramoff, Jack, 334 – 35
Abscam scandal, 290
Abu Ghraib, 330
Adams, Charles Francis, 128 , 148 ,
Adams, Henry, 166
Adams, John, 34 – 35 , 37 , 39 – 40 , 45 , 52 ,
62 – 66 , 70 , 116 , 198
Adams, John Quincy, 79 – 82 , 81 ,
84 – 86 , 88 – 94 , 121 , 128 , 190
Adams, Sam, 34 , 35 , 37
Adams-Onís Treaty ( 1819 ), 81 , 82
Afghanistan, 291 , 325 – 26
African-Americans, 133 , 164 – 66 , 177 ,
181 , 198 , 206 , 208 – 9 , 213 , 253 , 257 ,
262 – 63 , 267 – 70 , 272 – 74 , 302 , 305 ,
307 ; male suffrage, 161 – 62 ; in Union
Army, 148 – 49. See also civil rights;
racial discrimination; segregation;
slavery
Africans, 7 – 8 , 22 , 133
Agnew, Spiro, 279 , 281 – 83
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA,
1933 ), 222 , 226 , 229
Agricultural Market Act ( 1929 ), 214
agriculture, 20 – 22 , 76 – 77 , 116 , 132 – 34 ,
172 , 183 – 84 , 187 , 206 , 211 , 213 – 14. See
also farmers and farm relief
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 192
AIDS, 314
air pollution, 272
Alabama, 8 , 72 – 73 , 80 , 82 , 134 , 141 ,
162 , 218 , 251 , 263 , 267 – 68 , 271 – 73 ;
University of, desegregated,
268 – 69
Alabama (Confederate ship), 147
Alaska National Wildlife Refuge,
oil-drilling issue, 324
Alamogordo atomic test ( 1945 ), 240
Alaska, 84 , 123 , 189 , 265
Albania, WW II and, 231
Albany, 9
Albany Plan of Union ( 1754 ), 28 – 30 , 37
Albert, Carl, 276
Alcott, Bronson, 112
Aldrin, Col. Edwin E., Jr., 265
Algiers, 67