I26 Index
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 60
Massachusetts General Court,
102, 204
Massachusetts Government Act, 108
Massachusetts Patriots, 114
Mass-circulation papers, 525
The Masses(magazine), 560f
Massive retaliation, 750, 754f
Mass production, in auto industry, 661
Master workmen, 226
Mastodons, 4
Materialism, 508
Mather, Cotton, 66, 69–70, 76
Mather, Increase, 48, 69
Matteson, T. H., 69f
Maximilian, Archduke, 586
Mayans, 8
Mayflower(ship), 35
Mayflower Compact, 35
Mayhew, Jonathan, 101
Mazda, 809
McAdoo, William G., 621, 670
McCain, John, 344, 528, 796,
868–869, 869f, 871
McCarthy, Eugene, 782
McCarthy, Joseph R., 748–749,
751, 761
McCarthyism, 748–749
McChrystal, Stanley, 879
McClellan, George B., 377, 380–383
McColl, Ada, 303
McCord, James, 789, 790
McCormick, Cyrus, 338f, 339
McCormick Harvesting Machine
Company, 478
McCorvey, Norma, 828–829
McCory, Joseph G., 450
McCulloch, John W., 242
McCulloch v. Maryland, 242, 243,
243 f, 252–254
McCullough, David, 731
McCure, S. S., 558
McDougal, James, 850
McDowell, Irvin, 376, 377
McGerr, Michael, 569
McGovern, George, 787, 799
McKay, Donald, 336
McKinley, William
assassination of, 567
Cuba and, 591–592
election of 1896 and, 546,
548–549, 549f, 550–551,
551 m
election of 1900 and, 597
Philippines and, 596–597
on tariffs, 532
McKinley Tariff Act, 588
McNamara, Robert, 766
McPherson, James, 394
McReynolds, James C., 696
McTeague(Norris), 520
M’Culloch, John, 137
McWhiney, Grady, 394
Meade, George C., 388
Meadowcraft, Pennsylvania, 6
Measles, 25, 26
Meat inspection, 572
Mechanical reaper, 339
Mechanics’ libraries, 291
Medicaid, 776, 776f
Medicare, 776, 776f, 874
Medicine
advances in, during World
War II, 730
colonial, 88f
Meier, Megan, 844
Meir, Golda, 798
Melampus(ship), 188
Mellon, Andrew, 666, 666–667,
674, 677
Melville, Herman, 288–289, 534
Memphis, Tennessee, race riots
in, 408f
Men
alcohol consumption by, 280
increased free time of, 502
in late-nineteenth century, 487
Mencken, H. L., 497, 651, 656
Menlo Park, 464
Mennonites, 73
Mental hospitals, 279
Mercantilism, 83–85
Mercer, William, 122f
Merchant marine, 159
Embargo Act and, 188–190
impressment by British and,
187–188
Napoleonic wars and, 186–187
Mergers, 808
Merrell, James, 43f
Merrimack Manufacturing
Company, 229
Merry, Anthony, 183
Mesabi iron ores, 464
Mesa Verde, Colorado, 11f
Mesoamerica, 5, 8
Metacom, 39–40
Metal tools, 48, 49
Metropolitan Health Board, 497
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 502
Metropolitan Opera, 502
Mexican Americans
in Great Depression, 679
increase in population of, 823
in World War II, 718–719
Mexican Revolution, 612–613Mexican War, 305–309, 305m
Mexico
acquisition of Southwest territory
from, 297
Aztecs in, 8, 12, 22
French protectorate of, 586
invasion of, 612–613
missionary diplomacy in, 612–613
outlawing of slavery in, 299
Texas as part of, 298–299
Mexico City, 23, 308
Miami Indians, 90
Mickey Mouse, 649
Microsoft, 810–811, 855
Middle Ages, in Europe, 14–15
Middle class
in 1920s, 641
families, 273f, 486–487
in late-nineteenth century,
486–487
in mid-nineteenth century, 271,
271 f, 334
in post–Civil War period,
541–542
Middle colonies, 42–43, 56
agriculture in, 74
diversity in, 72–74
economy of, 71–72, 74
government in, 74–75
Great Awakening in, 86
Progressivism and, 557
prosperity in, 74
slavery in, 72
Middle East, 816m
Israel and, 752
oil crisis and, 798
Midway, Battle of, 728, 728f
Midway Islands, 586, 586f, 588,
725 f, 728
Migration
by African Americans to North,
625–626, 657
to Americas, 6–7m, 34m
out of South, 642m
Migration Series (Lawrence), 657f
Milan Decree (1807), 186
Miles, Nelson A., 437
Military, U.S.
African Americans in, 626
as all-voluntary, 712
black soldiers in, 717–718
gays in, 834–835
Military draft, 706, 712
Military-industrial complex, 761, 780
Militias, 114
Milk(film), 833
Milk, Harvey, 832f, 833
Milken, Michael, 808, 817