360 Index
National Youth Administration, 225
Naturalization Acts ( 1795 , 1798 , 1802 ),
64
Navigation Acts (British), 24
Navy Department, 63 , 170 , 210
Nazi-Soviet Pact, 231 , 232
Nebraska, 135 – 36
Nelson, Donald M., 240
Nelson, John M., 211
Netherlands, 56 , 59 , 232 , 247
neutrality, 60 , 188 , 200 , 204
Neutrality Acts ( 1937 , 1939 ), 232
Nevada, 126
New Amsterdam, 9 , 18 – 19
New Deal, 218 , 221 – 31 , 253 , 257 – 58
New Echota, Treaty of, 102
New England, 4 , 13 – 16 , 20 , 21 , 24 – 26 ,
43 , 56 , 70 , 72 , 74 , 76 , 91 – 93
Newfoundland, 4 , 9 , 27
New France, 8 – 9
New Freedom program, 198
New Frontier, 267
New Hampshire, 16 , 23 , 28 , 51
New Harmony, 113 – 14
New Jersey, 19 , 23 , 51
New Jersey Plan, 49 – 50
Newlands Act ( 1902 ), 194
New Lights, 25 – 26
New Mexico, 125 – 26 , 129 – 30 , 189 , 317
New Netherland, 18 – 19
New Orleans, 68 , 69 , 108 , 147 , 160 ;
Battle of, 73 – 74 , 116 ; Katrina and, 334
New Spain, 7 – 8
New World: exploration and
settlement of, 2 – 11 ; fi rst inhabitants,
1 – 2 ; named America, 6
New York Central Railroad, 132
New York City, 52 – 53 , 56 , 76 , 131 , 149 ,
175 , 212 , 218 , 314 ; Custom House, 176
New York: colonial, 9 , 19 , 21 – 23 , 28 ,
34 , 36 , 42 , 46 ; State, 51 , 198
New York Daily News, 311
New York Herald, 158 – 59
New York Journal, 190
New York Sun, 167
New York Times, 280
New York Tribune, 98 , 169
New York World, 190
Nicaragua, 298 – 99 ; Contras, 298 – 99 ;
Sandinistas, 298 – 99
Niger, 328
Niles Weekly Register, 74
Nimitz, Adm. Chester, 242
Nineteenth Amendment ( 1920 ), 200
Nixon, Richard, 246 , 257 , 263 – 65 , 279 ,
281 – 87 , 306 ; resignation of, 286 – 88 ,
299
NLFB v. Jones and Loughlin Steel
Corp., 228
Noah, Mordecai, 97
No Child Left Behind Act ( 2001 ), 324
Non-Importation Act ( 1809 ), 71
Noriega, Manuel, 303
Normandy invasion, 243
Norris, George W., 197 , 211 , 217
Norris–La Guardia Act, 217
North, 82 – 84 , 120 , 129 – 31 , 158
North, Lord, 34 , 37 , 43 , 45
North, Oliver, 298 – 99
North Africa, 241
North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), 312 – 13
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), 247 , 304 , 312
North Carolina, 10 , 17 – 18 , 39 , 51 , 134 ,
143 , 162 , 263 , 273
Northern Securities company, 194
North Korea, 255 – 56 , 260 , 326
North Vietnam, 274 , 276 , 278 , 281
Northwest Ordinance ( 1787 ), 46 – 47
Northwest Passage, 8
Northwest Territory, 47
Norway, 232 , 247
nuclear weapons, 266 , 336. See also
atomic bomb; weapons of mass
destruction
nullifi cation doctrine, 93 , 102 – 5
Nussle, James, 307Obey, David, 297
Odell, Moses, 144 – 45
Office of Censorship, 240