An American History

INDEX ★ A-99

Estonia, 772, 901

Ethiopia, 865, 1094, 1146

ethnic cleansing, 1079, 1079

eugenics, 755

Europe, European powers, 771–75, 773 ,

806, 908, 911, 914, 916, 1044, 1086

immigration from, 996, 1087, 1093

Islam in, 1125

post-World War II, 943

pre-World War II, 865

see also specific countries

European Union, Iran and, 1146

Evers, Medgar (1925–1963), 988

evolution, 635–36, 801, 1100

Executive Order 8802, 894

Executive Order 9066, 891

Exodus, book of, 661, 662

extremism, Goldwater and, 1010

factories, 700, 781, 785, 943, 1080

automobile, 782

New Deal and, 820

pollution and, 1033

in Soviet Exhibition, 940

during World War II, 876

Factories in the Field (McWilliams), 849

“factory farms,” 785

Fair Deal, 922

Fair Employment Practices Commission

(FEPC), 887, 894–95, 906

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 821, 850

Fair Labor Standards Bill, 844

Fall, Albert (1861–1944), 791

Falwell, Jerry (1933–2007), 1053–54

Family Assistance Plan, 1033

family life, 1017, 1024

Cold War and, 949–50

“family values” and, 1100–1101

and nuclear family, 1100

Family Record, 567

family values, 1057

Farmers’ Alliance, 652

Colored, 654

farms see agriculture

Farm Security Administration, 847 , 849

fascism, 834, 836, 866, 868, 878, 883–87,

919

Mussolini as founder of, 865

“Father Was Killed by a Pinkerton Man”

(song), 649

Faubus, Orval (1910–1994), 978

FBI, see Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCC, see Federal Communications

Commission

of 1988, 1069
of 1992, 1074–76
of 1996, 1078
of 2000, 1103–4, 1104
of 2004, 1120–21
of 2006, 1127–28
of 2008, 1109, 1135–36
of 2012, 1148–50, 1150
third parties in, 633
Electoral College, 631, 744, 1058, 1103,
1104, 1121
Electoral Commission (1877), 600
electrical industry, 704, 795
Electric Auto-Lite, 831
electricity, 608, 819–20, 859, 943, 1084
Elk, John, 626
Elk v. Wilkins, 626
Ellis Island, 697
Ellison, Ralph (1914–1994), 973
Ellsberg, Daniel (1931–), 1041
El Mozote, El Salvador, massacre in, 1066
El Salvador, 1050, 1066, 1123
e-mail, 1082
Emancipation Proclamation (1862), 576,
862, 906
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
Church, massacre in, 1131, 1152
Emergency Banking Act (1933), 824
empire, U.S., 682–83, 684–86, 685
Endangered Species Act (1973), 1021, 1033
End Poverty in California, 833
Enforcement Acts (1870–71), 596, 598
Engel v. Vitale, 1023
England, 782
see also British Empire; Great Britain
English, as official language, 1099
Enron, 1084
environmental degradation, 1151
environmentalism, 1003, 1020–21, 1049,
1057, 1060–61, 1062, 1076, 1077,
1078, 1080–82, 1111
Obama and, 1146
see also pollution
Environmental Protection Agency, 1032
Episcopalians, 1053
Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1972), 1037
Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion, 997, 1015
Equal Pay Act (1963), 1015
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 787–88,
1054, 1057, 1064
ERA, see Equal Rights Amendment
Espionage Act (1917), 752–53, 756, 797,
799 , 1147