366 Index
Smith, Mrs. Samuel H., 95 – 96 South Vietnam, 274 , 280 – 81
Smoot-Hawley Tariff ( 1930 ), 213 – 14 Soviet Union: Cold War and, 246 – 47 ,
Social Destiny of Man (Brisbane), 113 249 – 52 , 254 – 56 , 260 , 265 – 67 , 291 ,
socialism, 218 297 – 98 , 300 – 301 , 325 ; disintegration
Socialist Labor Party, 197 of, 303 ; WW I and, 202 ; WW II
Socialist Party, 184 , 193 , 195 , 197 , 211 , and, 230 – 32 , 235 – 36 , 241 , 243 – 44. See
219 , 220 also Russia
Social Security, 228 – 29 , 253 , 257 – 58 , space program, 265
271 , 310 , 325 , 331 Spain, 5 – 11 , 18 , 28 , 44 , 59 , 80 – 82 , 81 ,
Social Security Act: ( 1935 ), 225 , 228 ; 84 – 85 , 247 , 329 ; civil war of 1936 – 39 ,
( 1954 ), 259 230 ; Spanish-American War ( 1898 ),
Soil Conservation Act ( 1935 ), 225 190 – 92
Solidarity Movement, 303 Sparkman, John, 257
Somalia, 304 , 312 Special Orders, 297
Sons of Liberty, 33 , 36 Specie Circular ( 1836 ), 110
Soto, Hernando de, 8 Specie Resumption Act ( 1875 ), 172
South: civil rights movement and, 262 , Spelling Book (Webster), 116
267 – 71 ; colonial, 20 , 21 , 22 ; Civil Spirit of St. Louis, The (monoplane),
War and, 142 – 44 , 147 – 56 , 161 – 62 ; 207
dispute over treatment of, post– spoils system, 99
Civil War, 155 – 58 ; elections of 1924 Spotsylvania, Battle of, 150
and, 212 ; federal troops removed Sprague, Adm. Clifton, 242
from, with Hayes election, 174 – 77 ; Sputnik, 265
literature and, 118 ; plantation and Spy, The (Cooper), 76
slavery system in, 76 – 77 , 132 – 33 ; Squanto, 14
readmitted to union, 159 , 164 ; Stalin, Joseph, 230 – 32 , 243 – 44 , 246
Reconstruction and, 155 – 66 ; rural Stalingrad, Battle of, 241 , 243
life in, during 1920 s, 206 ; secession Stalwart Republicans, 175 – 77 , 197
threats of, over slavery in territories, Stamp Act (British, 1765 ), 32 – 33 , 35
82 – 84 , 104 – 5 , 119 – 20 , 127 – 31 , 136 – 37 , Stamp Act Congress, 32 – 33
139 – 43 ; slave revolts and, 119 – 20 ; Standard Oil Company, 178 , 196
state debt assumption and, 56 ; Stanton, Edwin, 154 , 162 – 63
tariffs and, 92 – 93 , 99 ; white rule Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 115 , 159
restored in, 165 – 66 , 178 , 209. See Starr, Kenneth, 318 – 19
also Civil War; Confederate States Star Wars, 296
of America; slavery; and specific acts, State Department, 53 – 54 , 246 , 254
colonies, individuals, and states state(s): Constitutional Convention
South America, 7 and, 47 – 48 , 51 – 53 ; debts, assumption
South Carolina, 17 – 18 , 51 , 93 , 102 – 5 , of, 56 , 58 ; disputes under Articles
134 , 141 – 42 , 162 , 271 , 273 of Confederation and, 45 – 47 ;
Southern Alliance, 179 election reform and, 196 ; militias,
Southern Christian Leadership 59 , 143 ; legislatures, 196 ; new,
Conference, 268 admitted between 1810 and 1819 ,
Southern Democrats, 227 , 250 – 53 , 271 , 82 ; new, admitted by War of 1812 ,
294 77 ; provisions for adding future,
South Korea, 255 – 56 , 260 and Northwest Ordinance, 46 – 47 ;