A Short History of the United States

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Confederate Army, 143 – 44 , 147 – 50 ,
152 – 53
Confederate States of America,
142 – 44 , 147 – 56 , 161 – 62
Congaree tribe, 18
Congress of Verona ( 1822 ), 84
Conkling, Roscoe, 175 – 76
Connecticut, 16 , 23 , 27 – 28 , 36 , 46
Connecticut Compromise, 50
Connor, T. Eugene “Bull,” 268
Conscription Act ( 1863 ), 149
conservation, 193 – 94 , 197 , 288 , 315
conservative(s), 225 – 27 , 279 , 293 – 94 ;
revolution, 309 – 12 , 314 , 322 – 24
Constitutional Convention, 47 – 51 , 53 ,

Constitutional Union Party, 141
Continental Association, 37
Continental Congress: First ( 1774 ), 37 ;
Second ( 1775 – 83 ), 38 – 40 , 42 , 44 – 45 ;
under Articles of Confederation
( 1783 – 87 ), 45 – 48 , 51 – 52
Contract with America, 309 – 10
Cooke, Jay, 167 , 171
Coolidge, Calvin, 205 , 210 – 12 , 216
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, earl of
Shaftesbury, 17
Cooper, James Fenimore, 76
Copperheads, 148 , 151
Cornell, Alonzo B., 176
Cornwallis, Lord, 42 , 44 – 45
Coronado, Francisco de, 8
Corporate Bankruptcy Act ( 1934 ), 224
corruption, 97 , 99 , 166 – 72 , 174 – 75 ,
178 – 80 , 196 , 209 – 10 , 290 , 297 , 301 ,
309 , 324 , 334
Cortés, Hernán, 6 – 7
Cosmopolitan, 196
cotton, 22 , 24 , 50 , 76 , 79 , 92 , 132 – 34 ,
214
Cotton, John, 15 – 16
cotton gin, 77 , 133 – 34
Coughlin, Father Charles E., 224
Council of Foreign Plantations, 23
Council of the Indies, 7
Council of Trade, 23

counterculture (hippies), 261

Covode, John, 144 , 162

Cox, Archibald, 284

Cox, James M., 205

Coxey, Jacob S., 185

Crawford, William H., 88 – 89

credit, 76 , 78 – 79 , 199 , 289

Credit Mobilier scandal, 167 – 70

Creek tribe, 100 , 101

Creek War of 1812 , 72 – 73 , 100

crime and violence, 308 – 9

Crisis, The (Paine), 42

Crocker, Ryan, 333

Cromwell, Oliver, 17

Crusades ( 1095 ), 4

C-Span, 296 – 97

Cuba, 6 , 190 – 92 , 260 ; Bay of Pigs and

missile crisis, 265 – 67

Cuban refugees, 317

cummings, e. e., 209

Cunningham, Randy “Duke,” 334

currency, 38 , 46 , 76 , 78 , 79 , 99 , 110 ,

198 ; greenbacks, 145 , 171 – 72 ; hard

vs. soft money, 178 – 79 ; paper, 50 ,

105 , 110. See also gold; silver

Currency or Gold Standard Act

( 1900 ), 193

Curtis, Charles, 213 , 219

Czechoslovakia, 231 – 32 , 250 , 303 , 312

Czolgosz, Leon, 193

Daladier, Edouard, 231

Dale, Thomas, 11

Dana, Charles A., 167

Dartmouth College case, 75

Daughters of Liberty, 33

Davis, David, 173 – 74

Davis, Jefferson, 142 – 43

Davis, John, 212

Dawes, Henry L., 167

Dean, Dr. Howard, 331

Dea n, John, 283 – 84

Debs, Eugene V., 193 , 195

debtors’ prison, 86 – 87 , 105

Declaration of Continental Congress

( 1774 ), 37