Index 359
Mississippi, 8 , 82 , 134 , 141 , 162 , 164 ,
251 , 263 , 267 , 271 , 273 ; University of,
desegregated, 268
Missouri, 84 , 134 , 143 ; Territory, 82 – 84
Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ), 82 – 84 ,
119 , 135 – 36 , 139
Missouri Enabling Act ( 1820 ), 82 – 83
Moby-Dick (Melville), 117
Mohawk tribe, 9
Mohican tribe, 100
molasses tariff, 91 – 92
Moley, Raymond, 219
Mondale, Walter F., 288 , 292
Monmouth, Battle of, 44
monopolies and trusts, 177 – 80 , 182 – 83 ,
188 , 194 , 196 , 199
Monroe, James, 68 , 79 – 80 , 84 – 87
Monroe Doctrine, 79 , 84 – 86 , 204
Montana, 200
Montcalm, Gen. Marquis de, 28
Montezuma, emperor of Aztecs, 6
Montgomery, Gen. Sir Bernard, 241
Montgomery bus boycott, 261
Montgomery Convention ( 1861 ),
141 – 42
moon mission, 265
Moore, Sara Jane, 287
Moral Majority, 314
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 185
Morgenthau, Henry, 239
Mormons, 114 – 15
Morrill Land Grant College Act
( 1862 ), 146
Morris, Gouverneur, 48 , 51
Morse, Samuel F., 119
Morton, Levi P., 180
Morton, William T.G., 119
motion picture industry, 207 , 246 – 46
Mott, Lucretia, 115
muckrackers, 196
Mugwumps, 177 , 179
Mühlenberg, Frederick, 61
Munich Agreement ( 1938 ), 231 – 32
Munn v. Illinois, 178
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe), 118
Murtha, John, 295
music, 260 – 61 ; jazz, 208 , 212 ; rock and
roll, 261
Muskie, Edmund S., 279
Mussolini, Benito, 230 – 31 , 241 , 245
Myers, Michael, 290
My Lai massacre, 280Nader, Ralph, 321 , 322
Naples, Battle of, 241
Napoleon Bonaparte, 68 , 70 – 72
Napoleonic Wars, 70 – 71 , 73 , 99
Napoleon III, emperor of France, 148
National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA), 265
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP), 198
National Budget and Accounting Act
( 1921 ), 211
national debt, 54 – 55 , 59 , 239 , 295 – 96 ,
325
National Defense Act ( 1916 ), 200
National Defense Program, 243
National Employment System Act
( 1933 ), 222
National Endowment for the Arts and
Humanities, 296
National Farmers’ Alliance of the
Northwest, 179
National Guard, 200 , 262 – 63 , 268 – 69 ,
280 , 332
National Housing Act ( 1937 ), 228
National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA, 1933 ), 222 – 23 , 226
National Intelligencer, 107 , 121
nationalism, 74 – 76 ; new, 197 – 98
National Labor Relations Act
(Wagner Act, 1935 ), 225 , 228
national parks, 310
National Progressive Republican
League, 197
National Republicans, 91 , 108
National Security Council, 298
National Union ticket, 151
National Woman Suffrage
Association, 159