Index 367
slave vs. free, 82 – 84 , 119 – 21 , 130 – 31 ,
135 – 39. See also specifi c states
states’ rights, 49 , 52 , 54 , 57 , 64 , 91 , 93 ,
103 , 159
States’ Rights Democratic Party, 251
Steagall, Henry, 228
steamboats, 77 , 132
steel industry, 167 , 187 , 229 ; embargo,
236
stem cell research, 116 , 323
Stennis, John C., 284
Stephens, Alexander H., 129 , 136 , 142 ,
166
Stephens, Lincoln, 196
Stevens, Thaddeus, 142 – 44 , 156 – 57 ,
161 , 163 , 296
Stevenson, Adlai (elder), 184 , 193
Stevenson, Adlai E. (younger), 257 – 58
Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, 228
Stimson, Henry L., 237
stock market: crash of 1893 , 184 ; crash
of 1929 , 213 – 15 ; crash of 1987 , 301 ;
decline of 1938 , 229
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 135
Strasser, Adolph, 229
strikes, 87 , 183 , 205 , 211 , 229 , 248 – 49
Stuyvesant, Peter, 18 , 19
suffrage: adult male, 86 , 88 , 97 – 98 ,
173 ; black male, 159 ; women’s, 159.
See also voting rights; women; and
specific constitutional amendments
sugar, 24 , 44 , 132 , 134 , 182 , 187 , 199 , 214
Sugar Act ( 1764 ), 32
Summary View of the Rights of British
America, A ( Jefferson), 36
Summers, Hatton, 227
Sumner, Charles, 137 – 38 , 157
Sumter, Fort, attack on, 142
Sun Belt, 313 , 314
Sundquist, Donald, 294
Supplementary Reconstruction Acts
( 1867 ), 161
supply-side economics, 292 , 294
Sutter, John, 128 – 29
Swallow, Silas C., 195
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 332
Taft, Robert A., 233 , 252 – 53 , 257
Taft, William Howard, 192 – 93 ,
197 – 98
Taft–Hartley Act ( 1947 ), 248 – 49 ,
252 – 53
Ta iw a n , 254 , 290
Ta l ib a n , 325 , 326
Talleyrand, Charles–Maurice de, 68
Tallmadge, James, 82 – 83
Taney, Roger B., 139
Tarawa, Battle of, 242
Tarbell, Ida, 196
tariff(s), 76 , 79 , 91 – 93 , 99 , 122 , 167 ,
179 – 82 , 184 – 85 , 197 – 99 , 213 – 14 , 219 ,
223 ; of 1828 (Abominations), 93 ,
99 , 102 – 3 ; of 1832 , 103 – 5 ; of 1833
(Compromise), 104
taxes, 276 ; American colonies vs.
British, 22 – 23 , 26 – 27 , 32 – 34 ;
Articles of Confederation and,
41 , 49 ; Bush I and, 305 – 6 ; capital
gains and, 302 ; Civil War and, 146 ;
Constitution, and federal power of,
49 ; cuts in, 247 , 292 , 295 – 96 , 302 ,
310 , 324 – 25 , 331 ; earned income
credit, 324 ; estate, 324 ; excess
profi ts, 211 , 239 ; excise, on liquor,
58 – 59 ; gasoline, 259 ; income, 176 ,
184 – 86 , 188 , 196 , 198 – 99 , 202 , 239 ,
295 – 96 , 302 , 324 ; payroll, 225 ,
228 – 29 ; poll, 251 , 267 ; resistance,
117 ; states, of federal institutions, 75 ;
victory, 239
Taylor, Glenn, 251
Taylor, Zachary “Old Rough and
Ready,” 98 , 116 , 123 – 24 , 128 – 130
Tea Act ( 1773 ), 34 – 37
Teapot Dome scandal, 209 – 10
technological advances, 76 – 77 , 118 – 19 ,
172 , 197 , 206 – 7 , 277 , 315 – 17
Tehran conference, 243
telegraph and telephone, 118 – 19 , 172 ,
197
television, 212 , 277 , 296 – 97 ;
presidential debates, 306
Teller Amendment, 191