Index 353
Georgia Scenes (Longstreet), 118
German Afrika Corps, 241
German-Americans, 22 , 131 – 32 , 136
Germantown, Battle of ( 1778 ), 43
Germany, 131 , 199 – 205 , 329 ; East, 246 ,
267 , 303 ; Nazi and WW II, 220 ,
230 – 38 , 240 – 44 ; West, 249 – 50 , 303
Gerry, Elbridge, 48 , 51
Gershwin, George, 208
Gettysburg, Battle of, 149
Ghent, Treaty of ( 1815 ), 74 , 78 , 89
Gibbons v. Ogden, 75
G.I. Bill of Rights ( 1944 ), 243 , 247 – 48
Gilded Age, 166 – 72 , 175 , 177 – 78
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner),
166
Gingrich, Newt, 297 , 309 – 11 , 319 – 20
Glass-Steagall Act ( 1932 ), 217
Glenn, John, 265
Glorious Revolution ( 1688 ), 23
Godkin, E. L., 177
gold: mining, 128 – 29 , 189 ; New Deal
and, 221 ; reserves, 184 – 85 , 217 ; rush,
128 – 29 ; standard, 171 – 72 , 185 – 86 ,
193 , 215 , 221 – 22
Gold Standard Repeal Act ( 1933 ), 222
Goldwater, Barry, 271
Gompers, Samuel, 229
Gooch, Daniel W., 144
Goodyear, Charles, 118
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 300 – 301 , 303
Gore, Albert, Jr., 302 , 306 , 321 – 22
Gorgas, Col. William C., 195
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 16
Graham, Rev. Billy, 323
Grain embargo ( 1979 ), 291
Grangers, 177 – 78 , 183
Grant, Ulysses S., 149 – 50 , 152 – 53 ,
160 – 67 , 169 – 70 , 173 , 176
Grasse, Adm. François de, 45
Great Awakening: First, 25 – 26 ;
Second, 115 – 16 , 134
Great Britain: American colonies
and, 23 – 30 , 29 ; American
Revolution and, 32 – 34 , 35 – 39 ,
41 – 45 ; Canada and French and
Indian Wars and, 27 – 28 ; Civil
War and, 144 , 147 – 48 ; exploration
and settlement of North America
by, 9 – 23 ; Glorious Revolution, 23 ;
impressment and, 60 – 61 , 70 – 72 ;
Iraq War and, 329 ; Jay Treaty
and, 61 ; New Netherlands taken
by, 18 – 19 ; Orders-in-Council, 60 ,
70 , 72 ; Oregon Territory and, 123 ;
Parliament, 22 – 24 , 26 – 27 , 30 , 32 – 36 ,
43 , 298 ; post–WW II, 246 – 47 ,
249 ; Privy Council, 22 ; Quadruple
Alliance and Monroe Doctrine,
84 – 85 ; Spanish Armada defeated by,
9 – 10 ; war of 1763 and, 31 – 32 ; war of
1793 vs. France, 59 – 61 ; War of 1812
and, 72 – 74 ; WW I and, 203 ; WW
II and, 231 – 36 , 240 – 41 , 243 – 44
Great Society, 271 , 276
Greece, 233 , 240 , 247 , 249
Greek and Turkish Aid Act ( 1947 ), 249
Greeley, Horace, 169
Greenback Party, 176 – 77 , 183
Greene, Nathaniel, 97
Green Party, 321
Greensboro sit–in, 263
Grenada, 304
Grenville, George, 32
Griffi ths, Martha, 315
Grimes, James W., 160 , 163
Groves, Gen. Leslie R., 240
Grow, Galusha A., 309
Guadalcanal, Battle of, 242
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 125 – 26 ,
128
Guam, 192 , 236 , 241 – 42
Guantanamo, 327
Guiteau, Charles J., 177
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ( 1964 ), 274 ;
repeal of ( 1971 ), 280
Gulf War ( 1991 ), 304 , 306 , 326
gun control, 278 , 308habeas corpus, 108 , 143 , 148 , 165
Habeas Corpus Act ( 1863 ), 148
Haiti, 68