Index I33Prohibition, 639, 652–653, 653m
repeal of, 686f
Propaganda
Soviet, 740f
during World War I, 623–624
Property, private
Marshall court and, 242
slavery and, 233
Property rights, 88, 100, 147
Property taxes, 473
Proposition 187, 823
The Prostate South (Pike), 415
Prostitution, 506f, 561, 624
Protectionism, in post–Civil War
period, 532
Protestant Episcopal Church, 137
Protestantism, in England, 34–35
Protestant Reformation, 15, 27, 30
Providence, Rhode Island, 38
Providence Plantations, 38
Prudential Building, 502
Prussia, 93
Psychedelic drugs, 779
Psychoanalysis, 559–560
Psychology, 643
Public Enemy (film), 837
Public libraries, 291, 525
Public schools
See alsoSchools
in late-nineteenth century,
490–491
in mid-nineteenth century,
291–292
social mobility and, 490–491
Public spaces, 485, 838–840
Public Works Administration
(PWA), 687
Pueblo Bonito, 8
Pueblo Indians, 24–25, 55
Puerto Rico, 597, 823
Puget Sound, 304
Pugh, George E., 363
Pulitzer, Joseph, 525, 591
Pullman, George, 460
Pullman strike, 480f, 481, 545
Pure Food and Drug Act, 571f,
572, 578f
Puritans
attitudes toward women, 70
dissenters, 37–39, 42
families of, 65–67
government of, 67–68
in Middle colonies, 42
migration to America by, 36–37
origins of, 35
visible saints of, 38, 39, 67
wars between Indians and,
39–40
Putnam, Ann, 68
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan and, 877
bin Laden and, 857
September 11, 2001 and, 764,
857–858
Taliban and, 859
USSColeand, 856
war on terrorism and, 858–859
Quakers, 67, 68, 75
beliefs of, 42
colonies of, 42–43
Quartering Act, 103
Québec
American Revolution and, 119
colony of, 100
Queen Anne’s War, 90, 93
Quincy, Josiah, 198
Quitrent, 58
QWERTY keyboard, 525fRabin, Yitzhak, 854, 854f
Race relations, in 1960s, 777–778
Race riots, 77f, 408f, 718–719,
777–778, 836
Racism, 756, 777–778
Radcliffe College, 513
Radicalism
labor movement and, 478, 481
in late-nineteenth century,
559–561
post–World War I, 634–635
Radical Republicans, 378, 406
Johnson and, 410–411
Reconstruction and, 407, 409, 414
Radio, in 1920s, 649
Radio Corporation of America, 677
Rafts, 236, 238
Rags-to-riches myth, 491
Railroad Administration, 621
Railroads
in 1860, 339m
agriculture and, 462, 462m
antitrust suits against, 569–570
business of, 458–460
competition and monopoly by,
465–466
economy and, 338–341, 462–463
financing of, 337–338
first, 337
investment in, 263
land grants to, and Indians, 442f
Pacific Railway Act, 389
regulation of, 475–476
sectional conflict and, 341
strikes and, 480, 481, 545
subsidies for, 447–449
transcontinental, 353, 389,
447–449
trunk lines, 460in West, 447–449
during World War I, 621
Rainey, Joseph, 416f
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 31
Rambo III(film), 837
Ramsay, David, 149
Ranching, 449–451, 453–454
Randall, James G., 354
Randolph, A. Philip, 718
Randolph, Edmund, 147, 154
Randolph, John, 186n, 189–190
Ranney, William, 138f
Rap music, 838
Raulston, John, 652
“The Raven” (Poe), 287
Raw materials, 83
Ray, James Earl, 778
Raymond, Daniel, 231
Raynell, John, 104
Reader(Webster), 137
Reading, in mid-nineteenth century,
290–291
Reagan, Ronald
abortion issue and, 827
AIDS epidemic and, 834
domestic policy under, 807–808
election of 1976 and, 800
election of 1980 and, 804–805
election of 1984 and, 806
foreign policy of, 805–806, 807,
809, 812–813
gay rights and, 833
Iran-Contra affair and, 813
as president, 805–813, 805f
Soviet Union and, 807
Reaganomics, 805
Reagan Revolution, 807–808
Realism
in art, 521–523
in literature, 518–521
Reaping machine, 338f, 339
Rebates, railroad, 465–466
Reconcentration camps, 591
Reconstruction
black legislators in, 414–417
Congress and, 410–411
corruption during, 413, 415
crop- and, 420–421
end of, 403, 427
Fifteenth Amendment,
411–412, 414
Fourteenth Amendment, 409–410
Johnson and, 406–407
Lincoln and, 405–406
politics of, 416–417
presidential, 420f
Radical Republicans and, 407,
409, 414, 420f
Ten Percent Plan, 406