Index 349
Declaration of Independence
( 1776 ), 40 , 46 ; bicentennial, 288 ;
centennial, 173
“Declaration of Rights and
Grievances” ( 1765 ), 32
Declaratory Act (British, 1766 ), 33
Defense Department, 280 , 327
De Large, Robert C., 164
Delaware, 20 , 42 , 47 , 51 , 143
Delaware tribe, 100
DeLay, Tom, 320 , 323 , 334
democracy: expansion of, 86 – 87 , 94 ,
96 – 97 , 99 , 116 , 166 , 196 – 97 ; global
mission and, 189 – 90 , 192. See also
voting rights
Democracy in America (Tocqueville),
90 – 91 , 97 – 98
Democratic National Committee,
Watergate burglary, 281 – 82
Democratic Party: Bush II
administration and, 323 , 328 ,
335 ; Carter administration and,
289 ; changes in, with Kansas-
Nebraska Act, 136 – 37 ; Chicago
Convention of 1968 and, 278 – 79 ;
Clinton administration and, 310 ;
Clinton impeachment and, 319 ;
development of, under Jackson, 91 ,
93 ; early- 20 th-century reforms and,
197 ; Eisenhower administration
and, 259 ; elections of 1864 , 151 ;
elections of 1866 , 160 ; elections of
1870 , 164 ; elections of 1872 , 169 ;
elections of 1876 , 173 , 174 ; elections
of 1880 , 176 ; elections of 1884 and
first presidency since Civil War,
179 – 80 ; elections of 1890 , 183 ;
elections of 1892 and control of
Congress and presidency, 184 – 85 ;
elections of 1896 , 185 – 86 ; elections
of 1900 , 193 ; elections of 1912 , 198 ;
elections of 1916 , 200 ; elections of
1918 , 203 ; elections of 1920 , 205 ;
elections of 1924 , 212 ; elections of
1928 , 213 ; elections of 1932 , 218 – 20 ;
elections of 1934 , 224 ; elections of
1936 , 226 – 27 ; elections of 1940 , 234 ;
elections of 1948 , 250 – 53 ; elections
of 1952 , 257 ; elections of 1954 , 258 ;
elections of 1956 , 261 – 62 ; elections
of 1960 , 263 – 65 ; elections of 1964 ,
270 – 71 ; elections of 1968 , 277 – 79 ;
elections of 1972 , 281 – 82 ; elections
of 1976 , 288 ; elections of 1980 ,
292 – 93 ; elections of 1988 , 301 – 2 ;
elections of 1992 , 306 – 7 ; elections
of 1994 , 309 – 310 ; elections of 2000 ,
321 – 22 ; elections of 2004 , 331 – 32 ;
elections of 2006 , 335 – 36 ; Hoover
administration and, 217 ; labor and,
249 ; Peace or Copperheads, 148 ;
Reagan administration and, 293 – 95 ,
299 ; slavery and, 121 ; split in, and
Civil Rights Act of 1964 , 271 ; split
in, and coalition of southern, with
Republicans, under FDR, 227 ; split
in, and elections of 1848 , 128 ; split
in, and elections of 1860 , 140 – 41 ;
tariff reform and, 179 , 181 ; Truman
and division in, 250 – 52 ; Tyler
administration and, 122 ; Versailles
Treaty and League of Nations and,
204 ; WW II and, 233 , 234. See also
Dixiecrats; southern Democrats
Democratic-Republican Party
(Jacksonian, later Democratic
Party), 91 , 93
Democratic-Republican Party
( Jeffersonian Republican Party),
59 – 60 , 63 – 65 , 74 , 87
Democratic Review, The, 122 , 189 – 90
Denmark, 232 , 247
Depression, 211 , 214 – 30
desegregation, 261 , 263 , 268 – 70
Desert Storm, Operation, 304
Detroit, 72 , 76
Dewey, Comm. George, 191
Dewey, John, 219
Dewey, Thomas, 243 , 252 – 53 , 257
Dickinson, John, 32 , 34 , 40
Dies, Martin, Jr., 230
Dinwiddie, Robert, 28