350 Index
Dix, Dorothea, 115
Dixiecrats, 251
Dixie-Republican alliance, 292 – 94
Dodge, Grenville, 167
Doenitz, Adm. Karl, 244
Dole, Robert, 288 , 311 , 312
Dominion of New England, 23
Donnelly, Ignatius, 178 , 183
Dos Passos, John, 209
Douglas, Stephen A., 130 , 136 – 37 , 140
Dow, Neal, 115 , 176
draft, 201 , 233 , 234 ; riots, 149 ; Vietnam
War and, 276
Drake, Francis, 9 – 12
Dred Scott decision, 139 , 140
Dreiser, Theodore, 209
Dubinsky, David, 229
DuBois, W. E. B., 198 , 209
dueling, 90 – 91
due process, 139 , 159
Dukakis, Michael, 302
Dunkirk evacuation, 233
Duquesne, Fort, 28
Dutch colonies, 9 , 18 , 20 , 22
Dutch East Indies, 241
Dutch West India Company, 9 , 18
Eastern Europe, 246 , 303
East India Tea Company, 35
Eaton, John H., 100
Eaton, Peggy O’Neale, 100
Eclectic Reader (McGuffey), 116
Economic Cooperation
Administration, 250
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act
( 2001 ), 324
Economic Opportunity Act ( 1965 ), 272
Economic Recovery Act ( 1981 ), 294
Edison, Thomas, 172 , 207
education, 47 , 87 , 116 , 253 , 258 , 271 , 296 ,
324 ; desegregation and, 261 , 263 ;
student loans and, 294 , 335
Education Act ( 1965 ), 271
Edwards, John, 331
Edwards, Jonathan, 25 – 26
Egypt, 241 , 290
Ehrlichman, John R., 283
Eighteenth Amendment ( 1919 ), 207 ,
212 ; repeal of, 218 – 19 , 221
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 241 , 243 – 44 ,
252 , 257 – 63 , 265 – 66
Eisenhower Doctrine, 260
El Alamein, Battle of, 241
election, direct: nominating
conventions and, 197 ; primary,
196 – 97 ; senators, 184 , 197 – 98
elections: ( 1789 ), 52 – 53 ; ( 1796 ), 62 ;
( 1800 ), 65 – 66 ; ( 1804 ), 70 ; ( 1824 ),
87 – 90 , 99 ; ( 1828 ), 91 , 94 ; ( 1832 ),
105 – 6 , 107 ; ( 1836 ), 111 , 302 ; ( 1840 ),
111 – 12 , 122 ; ( 1844 ), 123 ; ( 1848 ),
128 ; ( 1854 ), 137 ; ( 1856 ), 138 ; ( 1860 ),
140 – 41 ; ( 1864 ), 151 ; ( 1866 ), 159 – 60 ;
( 1870 ), 163 – 64 ; ( 1872 ), 167 , 169 ;
( 1876 ), disputed, 173 – 75 ; ( 1880 ),
176 – 77 ; ( 1884 ), 179 – 80 ; ( 1888 ), 180 ;
( 1890 ), 183 ; ( 1892 ), 183 – 85 ; ( 1896 ),
185 – 86 ; ( 1900 ), 193 ; ( 1904 ), 195 ;
( 1908 ), 197 ; ( 1912 ), 197 – 98 ; ( 1916 ),
200 ; ( 1918 ), 203 ; ( 1920 ), 204 – 5 ;
( 1924 ), 211 – 12 ; ( 1928 ), 213 – 14 ; ( 1932 ),
218 – 20 ; ( 1934 ), 224 ; ( 1936 ), 226 – 27 ;
( 1940 ), 233 , 234 ; ( 1944 ), 243 ; ( 1946 ),
245 , 248 ; ( 1948 ), 250 – 53 ; ( 1952 ),
257 – 58 ; ( 1956 ), 261 – 62 ; ( 1960 ),
263 – 65 ; ( 1964 ), 270 – 71 ; ( 1968 ),
277 – 79 ; ( 1972 ), 281 – 82 ; ( 1974 ), 288 ;
( 1976 ), 287 – 88 ; ( 1978 ), 289 ; ( 1980 ),
292 – 93 ; ( 1988 ), 301 – 2 ; ( 1992 ),
306 – 7 ; ( 1994 ), 309 – 10 ; ( 1996 ),
312 ; ( 1998 ), 319 ; ( 2000 ), disputed,
321 – 22 ; ( 2002 ), 323 ; ( 2004 ), 331 – 32 ;
( 2006 ), 335 – 36
Electoral College, 50 , 65 , 98 – 99
Electoral Commission ( 1877 ), 173 – 74
electricity, 172 , 187 , 206 – 7 , 212 , 225 ,
324 ; rural, 218 , 222
Eleventh Amendment ( 1798 ), 60
Eliot, T. S., 209
Elizabeth I, queen of England, 9 – 10
Elkins Act ( 1903 ), 194
Elliott, Robert B., 164