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Communism

African Americans, HUAC,

and, 442–444

CIA and, 434

Eisenhower on, 437–438

after Second World War, 432

Communist Labor Party, meeting

of (1918), 396–398

Comparison, 15, 42–43, 51–55,

77–78, 80–81, 82, 111,

131, 143–144, 157, 163–

164, 165, 243, 246, 270–

271, 285–286, 298–299,

302, 325, 333–334, 364,

401, 402–403, 420–421,

445, 472, 517, 520

Compassionate conservatism

(George W. Bush), 504

Competition, 11, 28

“Completion of the

Transcontinental Railroad

at Promontory Point”

(1869), 309, 309 (i)

Compromise of 1850, 253, 259

(m)

Lincoln-Douglas debates

and, 262

Compromises. See also Missouri

Compromise

of 1850, 253, 259 (m)

before Civil War, 253–263

Concerning the Just Causes of the

War against the Indians

(Sepúlveda, 1547), 14

Concession, 142

Conclusions, 9, 55, 82, 99, 422

Conestogo Indians, Paxton Boys

massacre of, 148

Coney Island, 365, 366 (i)

Confederacy. See also South

Davis as president of,

266–267

emancipation of slaves by,

290–291

Richmond destroyed in, 291,

292 (i)

Conflicts. See Battles; Revolts

and rebellions; Wars

and warfare; specific

conflicts

Congress (US), “Contract with

America” (1994) and,

499–500

Conkling, Roscoe, 316 (i)

Connecticut, 62

Connections, between historical

information and

documents, 24

Conquistadors, 12

Consensus, breakdown of,

447–472

Conservatives and conservatism,

448

“Address to the First

Conservative Political

Action Conference”

(Reagan, 1974), 466–467

Bush, George W., on,

504–505

in late 20th and early 21st

centuries, 490–522

“Consistency” (Puck, 1891), 332,

333 (i)

Constitution (state), of Georgia,

124–125

Constitution (US), 116

African Americans and, 305

Article I, Sections 2 and 9,

134–135

dissent at Constitutional

Convention and, 128

Madison on, 129

Preamble to (1787), 134

Virginia ratification of,

130–131, 131 (i)

woman suffrage and, 346

Constitutional Convention

(1787), 128, 134

Consumers, growth of, 382

Containment, 490

Eisenhower on, 437

Context, 341, 402–404

Contextualization, 49–50, 77–78,

127, 161, 208, 264–265,

285–286, 314–315,

324–326, 333–334, 357,

367–368, 391–392, 401,

442–444, 445, 502

Continental Army, 103

Continental Congress

Articles of Confederation

(1781–1789) and, 125–126

Jefferson and, 122

Continuity and change over time,

9, 51, 52, 98, 199–200,

323, 378, 411, 420, 421

“Contract with America”

(Republican Party, 1994),

499–500

Contrast. See Comparison

Convention of Kanagawa, 240

Conversation, argument as,

485–486

Conversion, to Christianity, 12,

26, 40

Cooperation, 11, 28

Corn, Ann and Alfred, White,

Edmund, letter to, 462–463

Cornwallis, Charles, 104

Corporations, LaFollette on,

352–353

“Correspondence between Daniel

Shays and Benjamin

Lincoln” (1787), 151–152

Cortés, Hernán, Tlaxcalan people

assistance to, 8, 8 (i), 9 (i)

Cotton gin, patent renewal for,

193–194

Counterarguments, 79, 111,

247–250

Counterculture, 440 (i)

Yippies and, 480

“Crisis of Confidence,” Carter on,

492–493

Crops

cotton as, 193

tobacco as, 31

Cuba

Soviet Union and, 438

Spain and, 408–409

Cuban missile crisis, 438–439

Culture(s). See also Native

Americans; specific

groups

British North American, 58

equal rights and, 236

interactions among, 26

after Second World War,

474–488

Custer, George Armstrong,

“Description of Custer’s

Battlefield” (Sheridan,

1876), 330

“Danger Threatening

Representative

Government, The”

(LaFollette, 1897), 352–353

Darrow, Clarence, vs. Bryan,

386–388

Davies, Lawrence E., “Zoot Suits

Become Issue on Coast”

(The New York Times,

1943), 399–400, 400 (i)

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