Index 347
Cherokee Nation, 18 , 100 – 102 , 101
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 102
Cheves, Langdon, 83 – 84
Chiang Kai-shek, 236 , 254 , 256
Chicago, 76 , 132 , 183 , 196 , 314 ; riot of
1968 , 278 – 79
Chickasaw tribe, 100 , 101
child-labor laws, 193 , 195 , 199 , 211 ,
229
Chile, 84
China: People’s Republic of, 253 – 56 ,
260 , 276 , 281 , 290 , 303 , 336 ; WW II
and, 235 – 36 , 244
Chinese Nationalist Party, 254
Chisholm v. Georgia, 60
Choctaw tribe, 100 , 101
Choiseul, Étienne-François de, 28
Churchill, Winston, 233 – 35 , 242 – 44 ,
246
Cigar Makers’ International Union,
229
citizenship rights, 158 – 59 , 210 – 11 , 238
civil disobedience, 262
“Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau), 117
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),
222
civil liberties, 327
civil rights, 251 – 53 , 257 , 261 – 65 ,
267 – 69 , 272 – 74 , 276 , 302
Civil Rights, Commission on, 262
Civil Rights Act: ( 1866 ), 158 – 59 ;
( 1875 ), 166 ; ( 1957 ), 262 ; ( 1960 ), 263 ;
( 1964 ), 268 – 71
Civil Rights Committee, 250 – 51
Civil Rights Division, 262
civil service, 175 , 179 , 253 – 54
Civil Service Commission, 177
Civil Service Reform Act ( 1883 ), 177
Civil War, 84 , 119 , 126 , 131 , 135 , 142 – 53 ,
164 , 184 , 243
Clark, Beauchamp “Champ,” 198 , 200
Clark, William, 69
Clay, Henry, 71 – 72 , 78 – 84 , 88 – 90 , 94 ,
104 – 8 , 110 , 123 , 126 , 129 – 30 , 296
Clayton Antitrust Act ( 1914 ), 199
Clean Air Act ( 1963 ), 269 , 324
Clemenceau, Georges, 203
Cleveland, Grover, 179 – 81 , 184 – 85 , 263
Clinton, George, 60
Clinton, Gen. Henry, 38 , 42 , 44 – 45 , 49
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 308
Clinton, William Jefferson “Bill,” 304 ,
306 – 8 , 310 – 13 ; impeachment of,
318 – 21
Coal Conservation Act, 226
coal industry, 132 , 199
Coalition Provisional Authority, 330 ,
333
Cobb, Thomas W., 82
Coinage Act ( 1873 ), 171
Cold Harbor, Battle of, 150
Cold War, 246 – 47 , 249 – 51 , 255 – 56 ,
260 , 265 – 67 , 274 – 76 , 291 , 301 , 325 ;
end of, 303
Colfax, Schuyler, 164 , 167 , 170
Collins, Col. Michael, 265
Colombia, 84 , 194 – 95
Colorado, 126
Colt, Samuel, 118
Columbia, South Carolina, capture
of, 152
Columbus, Christopher, 5
Committee for European Economic
Cooperation, 250
Committee for Industrial
Organization (CIO), 229 – 30
committees of correspondence, 34
Common Sense (Paine), 38 – 39
Commonwealth v. Hunt, 87
communism, 202 , 204 , 209 , 216 ,
230 – 31 , 245 , 249 – 51 , 253 – 56 , 260 ,
280. See also anti-communism; Cold
War; Red Scare
Communist Party (U.S.), 219 – 20 , 245 ,
254
communitarianism, 113 – 14
Community Relations Service, 270
Compromise of 1790 , 56
Compromise of 1850 , 130 – 31 , 135 – 36
Compromise Tariff of 1833 , 104
computers, 315 – 16
Concord, Battle of, 37 , 41