Index 363
Queen Anne’s War, 1702 , 27
Quincy, Josiah, 35 , 67
Rabin, Yitzhak, 311
race riots, 121 , 267
racial discrimination, 166 , 206 , 251 ,
262 , 270
Radical Republicans, 144 – 45 , 150 – 51 ,
155 – 57 , 159 , 162 – 64 , 175 – 76
radio, 206 – 7 , 212 , 219 , 222 , 234
railroads, 76 , 132 , 135 – 36 , 166 – 67 ,
168 , 171 , 177 – 80 , 187 – 88 , 193 – 94 ,
196 , 202 , 211 , 217 , 223 ; segregation
and, 178 ; seizure of, 248 ;
transcontinental, 146 , 172
Rainey, Henry T., 221
Rainey, Joseph H., 164
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 10
Randolph, Edmund, 48 , 51 , 54 , 60
Randolph, John, 67 , 71 , 83 , 90 – 91
Rangel, Charles, 319
Rankin, Jeannette, 200 , 201 , 237
Ray, James Earl, 278
Rayburn, Sam, 259
Reader (Webster), 116
Reagan, Ronald, 288 , 292 – 301 , 304 ,
308 , 324 , 325
recession: of 1780 s, 46 ; of 1833 – 34 , 108.
See also Depression; Panic
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act, 223
Reconstruction, 152 , 155 – 66 , 169 , 172 ,
174 – 75 , 178 , 262 , 270 , 271
Reconstruction Acts ( 1867 ), 162 ,
164 – 65
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(RFC), 217 , 218
Red Scare, 209 , 253 – 55. See also anti-
communism
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 181 – 82
reform movement: antebellum, 109 ,
112 , 115 – 17 , 119 ; post–Civil War,
179 – 80 , 193 , 195 – 96
Reform Party, 312
Regan, Frank S., 219
Rehnquist, William, 285 , 321
Reid, Whitelaw, 184
religious freedom, 13 – 17 , 46 – 47
religious fundamentalists, 212 , 308 – 9
religious Right, 314 , 323
Reno, Janet, 318
Republican National Committee to
Reelect the President (CREEP), 281
Republican Party: anti-labor
legislation, 248 – 49 ; antitrust
legislation and, 182 ; Bush II
administration and, 323 , 328 , 332 ,
334 – 35 ; civil service reform and,
179 ; Clinton administration and,
308 – 12 ; Clinton impeachment
and, 318 – 21 ; conservative coalition
with southern Democrats and, 227 ;
created by Whigs, Free-Soilers,
and antislavery Democrats, 121 ,
136 ; development of, and Civil
Wa r, 140 – 42 , 144 – 45 ; early- 20 th-
century reforms and, 197 ; elections
of 1856 and Frémont candidacy,
138 ; elections of 1864 , 151 ; elections
of 1870 , 163 – 64 ; elections of 1876 ,
173 ; elections of 1876 and deal with
South, 174 – 76 ; elections of 1880 ,
176 – 77 ; elections of 1890 , 183 ;
elections of 1892 , 184 ; elections of
1896 , and control of Congress and
presidency, 185 – 86 ; elections of
1900 , 193 ; elections of 1912 , 197 – 198 ;
elections of 1916 , 200 ; elections of
1918 , 203 ; elections of 1920 , 205 ;
elections of 1924 , 212 ; elections of
1928 , 213 ; elections of 1932 , 219 , 220 ;
elections of 1934 , 224 ; elections of
1936 , 226 ; elections of 1948 , 250 – 53 ;
elections of 1952 , 257 , 258 ; elections
of 1956 , 261 – 62 ; elections of 1960 ,
263 – 65 ; elections of 1964 , 270 – 71 ;
elections of 1968 , 279 ; elections of
1972 , 281 – 82 ; elections of 1974 and
1976 , 288 ; elections of 1980 , 292 – 93 ;
elections of 1988 , 301 – 2 ; elections
of 1992 , 306 – 7 ; elections of 2000 ,
321 – 22 ; elections of 2006 , 335 ;
majority, and Sun Belt, 313 ;