A Short History of the United States

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Index 355


Hungary, 240 , 260 , 303 , 312
Huron tribe, 8 – 9
Hussein, Saddam, 303 – 4 , 306 , 326 – 30
Hutchinson, Anne, 15 – 16
Hutchinson, Thomas, 34 – 37
Hyde, Henry, 319 , 320 , 321
hydroelectrical projects, 218 , 253
hydrogen bomb, 247


Iceland, 247
Ickes, Harold, 231
Illinois, 82 , 178
immigration, 76 , 86 – 87 , 131 – 32 , 136 – 37 ,
172 , 179 , 210 – 11
Immigration Act ( 1924 ), 210
Immigration Act ( 1965 ), 272
Immigration Agency, 327
Immigration Reform and Control Act
( 1986 ), 317
impeachment, 61 ; Andrew Johnson
and, 163 ; Clinton and, 319 – 21 ;
Nixon and, 285 – 86
Impending Crisis of the South, The
(Helper ), 139 – 40
impressment, 60 – 61 , 70 – 71
Inca tribe, 2 , 7
indentured servants, 22
Independence Party, 197 , 200
Independent Treasury Plan, 111
India, 4 – 5 , 8 , 336
Indiana, 82
Indian Citizenship Act ( 1924 ), 210 – 11
Indian Removal Act ( 1830 ), 100 – 102 ,
101
Indians (Native Americans), 1 – 2 , 3 ,
5 , 8 – 12 , 14 – 15 , 18 , 20 , 26 – 28 , 31 – 32 ,
61 , 72 , 99 – 102 , 118 , 136 , 158 , 238 ;
in Congress, 307. See also specifi c
tribes
Indian Wars, 111
indigo, 18 , 22 , 24
Indochina, 236 , 260
industrialization and manufacturing,
76 – 79 , 91 – 93 , 116 , 131 – 32 , 167 ,
172 – 73 , 180 , 182 , 206 , 240
infl ation, 276 , 289 , 294


infl uenza epidemic, 208
INF Treaty ( 1987 ), 300 – 301
initiative, referendum and recall
reforms, 184 , 196 – 97
Insurgent Republicans, 197 – 98 , 211
interest rates, 225 , 289 , 294
Interior Department, 170 , 210 , 228
Internal Revenue Act ( 1862 ), 146
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 284
International Business Machines
(IBM), 315
international power, 188 , 194 – 95 , 244
Internet, 316
interstate commerce, 47 , 49 , 75 , 176
Interstate Commerce Act ( 1887 ), 180 ,
194
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC), 180 , 197
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Laws,
British, 1774 ), 36 – 37
Iowa, Granger laws, 178
Iran, 326 , 336 ; -Contra scandal,
298 – 301 ; hostage crisis, 291 – 93 ; and
nuclear program, 336
Iraq: Gulf War and, 303 – 4 ; War and
occupation, 326 , 328 – 36
Iraq Study Group, 335
Irish immigrants, 131 , 136 , 179 , 181
Iron Curtain, 246
iron industry, 132 , 199
Iroquois tribe, 8 – 9 , 18 , 27 – 29 , 79 , 92
Irving, Washington, 75 – 76
Islam: fundamentalists, 291 ; Shiite vs.
Sunni, 329 , 333 ; terrorists, 325 – 26 ,
330 – 31
isolationism, 188 , 204 – 5 , 209 – 11 , 244
Israel, 290 , 298 , 312 , 326 , 330 – 31
Italy, 203 , 230 , 247 , 249 , 329 ; WW II
and, 231 , 235 , 237 , 240 – 41 , 243
Iwo Jima, Battle of, 242

Jackson, Andrew “Old Hickory,” 67 ,
72 – 73 , 80 – 82 , 87 – 91 , 94 – 110 , 116 – 17 ,
122 , 132 , 142 , 165 , 238
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,”
144 , 149
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