I10 Index
Congressional elections
of 1874, 425
of 1890, 559
of 1918, 629
of 1934, 691
of 1938, 697–698
of 1994, 852
Congressional Union, 567
Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO), 697
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),
758, 769
Connecticut
colony of, 40
ratification of Constitution
by, 152
A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court(Twain), 519
Conquistadores, 22–23
Consciousness raising, 827
The Consecration(Lambdin), 429f
Conservation, 572
Conservative movement, 829–832
“Constant decency” policy, 802–803
Constitution(ship), 199, 199f
Constitutional Convention,
145–149, 211
Constitutional Union party, 365
Constitutions
See alsoU.S. Constitution
state, 130–131
Consumerism, in 1920s, 659–660
Consumer products, 659–660
Consumer revolution, 224
Consumer’s League, 565
Consumption, culture of, 487
Containment policy, 739–740,
744–745
Continental army, 115, 119,
123–124, 130, 134
Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation and,
129–130
First, 108–109, 114
Second, 115
Continental Divide, 302
Continental dollar, 130
Continental System, Napoleon’s, 198
Contraception, 565, 641
Margaret Sanger and, 646, 647f
in nineteenth century, 273f
Contracts, Marshall court and, 242
Contract with America, 852
Contras, 812
Convention of 1800, 178
Convention of 1818, 206
Convicts, transported to Americas, 65
Cook, James, 96f
Coolidge, Calvin, 670f
business and, 667
election of 1924 and, 670–671
foreign policy of, 671–672, 673
as president, 665
prosperity under, 670–671
on public schools, 490–491
Cooper, Thomas, 165
The Cooperative Commonwealth
(Gronlund), 474–475
Copperheads, 378, 407
Copyright, 143
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 725,
728, 728f
Corcoran, W. W., 314–315
Cordilleran Ice Sheet, 6
CORE.SeeCongress of Racial
Equality (CORE)
Corn, 8–9, 25, 33, 43, 48, 71, 340m
Cornbury, Lord, 72f
Corn-cultivating societies, 5, 8–12
Cornell, Wayne R., 867
Corning, Erastus, 337
Corn Mother symbolism, 8, 8f
Corn Tassel, 256, 258
Cornwallis, General, 122, 126,
127, 127f
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 23
Corporate mergers, 808
Corporate restructuring, 809
Corporations
bailouts of, 872–873
downsizing by, 817
in late-nineteenth century, 557
laws affecting, 577
layoffs by, 808–809
outsourcing by, 809
rise of, 231–232
Teddy Roosevelt and, 568–570
vs. trusts, 468–469
Corruption
in business, 458
in cities, 561
city bosses and, 540–541
government, 533
Cortés, Hernán, 22–23
Cosby, William, 74, 75
Cosmetics, 643, 660f
Costa Rica, 605
Cotton
Confederacy and, 379
export of, 335
mechanized production and,
224–225
prices, 550f
slavery and, 232–233, 232f, 233f,
234, 323m
smuggling, during Civil War, 390in South, 232–233, 322,
340 m, 374
in Texas, 298
westward spread of, 217m
Cotton, John, 66
Cotton Belt, 217
Cotton gin, 232f, 233
Cotton textile code, 687
Coughlin, Charles R., 693–694, 693f
Coulter, Ann, 684–685
Council for New England, 36
Courtly love, 614–615
Courtship, in 1920s, 643
Court system, 148
Cowboys, 452
Cowpens, battle of, 126, 138
Cowperthwaite, Samuel, 280
Cows, 12
Cox, Archibald, 790
Cox, James M., 636
Coxe, Tench, 157
Coxey, Jacob S., 545
Crack, 837
Craft, William and Ellen, 346–347,
350, 350f
Craft unions, 333
Cragin, Mary, 276f
Cramer, Charles F., 667
Crane, Stephen, 520, 655
Craven, Avery, 354
Crawford, William H., 213, 218
Credit card debt, 171
Creede, Colorado, 444f
Creek Indians, in War of 1812,
204, 205
Creel, George, 623
Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de,
73–74
Crighan, George, 90
Crime
decline in, 862
in New England colonies, 71
Prohibition and, 653
rise in, 839
slums and, 500
violence and, 862–863
Crimean War, 341, 342
Criminals, treatment of, 278
The Crisis(journal), 580, 581, 657
Crittenden, John J., 367
Crittenden Compromise, 367
Crocker, Charles, 449
Crockett, Davy, 264–265, 264f,
265 f, 299, 316–317, 317f
Crockett, John, 264
Crockett Almanacs, 265, 265f
Croker, Richard, 540
Cromwell, Oliver, 68