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Plumer, William, 83
Plymouth, 13 , 27
Pocahontas, 11
Poe, Edgar Allan, 118
Poindexter, John M., 298 , 299
Poland, 202 – 3 , 231 – 32 , 241 , 303 , 312 ,
political campaign contributions, 180
political machines, 179
political parties: evolution of two-
party system and, 59 – 62 ; Jacksonian
age and, 91 , 96 – 97 ; labor and, 248 ;
nominating conventions begun, 65 ;
refashioned, with Kansas-Nebraska
dispute, 136 – 37 ; reform movement
and, 197. See also elections; and
specific parties and factions
Polk, James Knox “Young Hickory,”
98 , 111 , 116 , 123 – 24 , 128
Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, 185
poll taxes, 251 , 267
Polo, Marco, 4
Ponce de Leon, Juan, 8
Pontiac, Chief of Ottawa, 31
popular sovereignty doctrine, 128 , 130 ,
140
population, of 2000 , 318
Populist Party (People’s Party),
183 – 86 , 193 , 195 , 197
pork barrel, 97 , 180 , 218
Porter, Cole, 208
Portugal, 5 – 6 , 247
Potter, John F. “Bowie-Knife,” 139
Pound, Ezra, 209
poverty, 115 , 317
Powell, Colin, 304 , 328 , 329
Powhatan, Chief, 10 – 12
Powhatan War, 12
Preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation ( 1863 ), 147
Presbyterians, 18
Prescott, Col. William, 38
president (executive branch):
nominating system, 65 ; nominating
system, changed in 1824 , 87 – 88 ;
power of, 49 – 50 , 67 – 68 , 107 – 10 , 182 ,
223 , 228 , 239 , 282 , 327 , 336 ; power
of, vs. legislative branch, post–Civil
Wa r, 158 – 63 ; salary of, 171 ; separate
ballot for vice president and, 66 ;
veto by, 50 , 106 – 8 , 110 , 180 ; veto by,
first major congressional override,
159 , 161 – 62
Presley, Elvis, 261
Preston, Capt. Thomas, 35
Prevost, Gen. Sir George, 73
Priest, Oscar S., 213
Princeton, Battle of, 42
Proclamation of 1763 (British), 31
Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction ( 1863 ), 150
Proclamation of December 10 ( 1832 ),
104 – 5
Proclamation of Neutrality ( 1793 ), 60
progressive movement, 109 , 184 ,
193 – 99 , 211
Progressive Party, 197 – 98 , 200 ; of
1924 , 211 – 12 , 217 ; of 1948 , 251 – 52
Prohibition, 207 – 8 , 212 , 219 , 221 – 22
Prohibition Party, 169 , 176 – 77 , 184 ,
193 , 195 , 197 , 219 , 220
protectionism, 91. See also tariffs
Protestant Reformation, 13
Prussia, 84
public works, 215 , 217 – 18 , 259
Public Works Administration, 223
Puerto Rico, 192 , 317
Pulitzer, Joseph, 190
Pullman strike of 1894 , 183
Pure Food and Drug Act ( 1906 ), 195 ,
229
Puritans, 13 – 17 , 19 – 21 , 24 – 25 , 27 , 112
Purloined Letter, The (Poe), 118Quadruple or Holy Alliance, 84 – 85
Quakers, 19 – 20 , 24 , 25 , 119
Quartering Act (British, 1765 ), 32 , 36
Quasi-War with France, 63
Quayle, J. Danforth, 302 , 306
Quebec, 8 ; siege of, 28
Quebec Act ( 1774 ), 36