I2 Index
Agnew, Spiro T., 783, 791
Agrarian discontent, 550–551
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA),
688, 690f, 695
Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAA), 688
Agriculture
See alsoFarming
in 1860, 340m
advances in, 322, 339
in colonies, 33, 43, 45, 58,
60–63, 71, 72, 74
Columbian Exchange and, 25, 27,
28–29m
corn, 8–9
cotton and, 232–233
crop-lien system, 420–421
crop yields in, 676
Dust Bowl, 688–689
falling prices in, 542, 676
Industrial Revolution and, 232
maize, 5, 8
mobilization of, during World
War I, 622
in New England, 71
in post–Civil War period,
541–542
prehistoric, 8–10, 12–13
railroads and, 341, 462, 462m
sharecropping, 420–421
in South, 322
technological advances in, 458, 491
tobacco, 60–61
in West, 447
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 592–593,
596–597, 596f, 600–601
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 804f
AIDS, 833–834, 833m
AIG.SeeAmerican Insurance
Group (AIG)
Air brakes, 460
Airplanes, in 1920s, 661–662
Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, 90
Alabama(ship), 379
Alabama, cotton in, 233, 258
Alabamaclaims, 586
Alamo, 265, 299, 316–317
Alaska, 4, 6, 95m, 317f
purchase of, 586
Russian interest in, 207
Albania, 705
Albany Plan, 87–88, 95
Albany Regency, 213
Albemarle settlement, 41
Alcohol, temperance movement and,
280–281
Alcohol consumption
by college students, 638–639
in mid-nineteenth century, 280
Alcorn, John L., 414
Alcott, Bronson, 274
Alcott, Louisa May, 274
Aldrich, Nelson, 530
Aldrin, Buzz, 784f
Alexander, Francis, 212f
Alexander VI (pope), 22, 46
Algonquin Indians, 42, 46–47, 90
Alien Act, 175
Alien and Sedition Acts, 165
Alien Enemies Act, 165
Al Jazeera, 859
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 648
Allen, Kris, 528
Allen, Paul, 810–811
Allen, Richard, 234
Allende, Salvador, 800
Alliance of 1778, 158
Allied Powers, in World War I, 613,
616–618, 620, 627
Allies, in World War II, 722–723
All-volunteer military, 712
Almshouses, 279
Alperovitz, Gar, 731
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, 481
Amalgamated Copper, 556
Amana Community, 277, 278
Amazon.com, 855
America(ship), 199
The American (James), 521
American Anti-Slavery Society, 414
American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP), 844
American Baseball League, 503
American bison, 436, 440–441,
440 f
American Board of Commissioners of
Foreign Missions, 276
American Colonization Society, 234
The American Commonwealth
(James), 585
American culture, 137
American Empire, 606f
See alsoExpansionism, U.S.;
Imperialism
in Latin America, 589–590
in Pacific, 588–589
American Expeditionary Force
(AEF), 627
American Federation of Labor (AFL),
478–479, 688
American flag, 135
American Geography(Morse), 137
American Idol(TV show), 528
American Indian Defense
Association, 701
American Indian Life
(magazine), 701American Indians. SeeIndian
Americans
American Insurance Group (AIG),
870, 871
American Legion, 667
American party, 353, 355
American Philosophical Society, 89
American Progress(Gast), 300f
American Psychological Association
(APA), 832
American Railway Union, 481
American Revolution, 113
battles of, 114–116, 120–123,
126–127
beginning of, 114–115
class struggle and, 128
Continental army, 119
debt from, 155, 156
Declaration of Independence and,
116–118
events leading to, 96–97, 100–109
fighting of, 118–119
financing of, 130
France involvement in, 123, 127
growth of nationalism following,
134–135
Hessian soldiers in, 117, 122
Loyalists during, 119–120
national heroes of, 136–137
peace negotiations, 127–129
in South, 124–126, 125m
victory in, 126–127
war debts from, 144
women during, 122n, 133–134
Americans, character of, 52–53
American Sugar Refining
Company, 477
American System, 214, 219
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company (AT&T), 464
American Temperance Union,
280–281
American Tin Plate Company, 467
American Tobacco Company, 570
American Today(Benton), 639f
American Tract Society, 290–291
American Woman Suffrage Association
(AWSA), 565
Americas
Columbus’ discovery of, 21
earliest route to, 6–7m
geographic isolation of, 4
migration to, 6–7m, 34m
AmeriCorps, 555
Ames, Fisher, 164
Amherst, Jeffrey, 93, 96f
Amiens, Treaty of (1802), 177
Amusement parks, 502
Anaconda Mining, 444