364 Index
Republican Party (continued )
New Deal and, 222 – 23 ; Nixon
impeachment and, 286 ;
Reconstruction and dispute with
Johnson, 155 – 61 ; reform movement
among, 177 ; religious right and, 314 ;
South and, post–Civil Rights Act
of 1964 , 271 ; split between Stalwart
and Half Breed factions, 176 ; split
in, with Liberal Republicans,
169 ; tariffs and silver issue and,
180 – 82 ; television and, 297 ; Truman
administration and, 253 – 54 ; WW II
and, 233. See also Half Breed faction;
Insurgent Republicans; Radical
Republicans; Stalwart Republicans
Republican Party ( Jeffersonian). See
Democratic-Republican Party)
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
(ROTC), 200
Residency Act ( 1790 ), 64
Revels, Hiram R., 164
Revenue Act: ( 1940 ), 233 ; ( 1941 ), 239 ;
( 1942 ), 239
revival meetings, 115
Revolutionary War, 38 – 39 , 41 – 45
Rhode Island, 15 , 23 , 28 , 48 , 51
Rice, Condoleezza, 328
rice plantations, 18 , 22 , 24 , 132 , 134
Richardson, Elliot, 284
Richmond, 143 , 146 , 152
rights: assembly and petition, 54 ,
121 – 22 ; ; to bear arms, 54 ; free
speech, press, and religion, 54 ; not
delegated, reserved to states or
people, 54 , 57 ; privacy, 283
Ripley, George, 112 , 113
Roanoke colony, 10
Roaring Twenties, 205 – 13
Robards, Lewis, 94
Robber Barons, 178 , 188
Robinson, Joseph T., 213
Rockefeller, John D., 188
Rockefeller, Nelson, 286 , 288
Rockingham, Lord, 45
Rodino, Peter, 285
Roe v. Wade, 283 , 314 – 15
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 239
Rolfe, John, 11
Roman Catholics, 4 – 5 , 8 , 13 , 16 – 17 , 137 ,
179 , 212 ; sexual abuse scandal, 313
Romania, 233 , 240 , 303
Romanticism, 112 , 117 – 18
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 241
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR), 205 ,
211 – 12 ; New Deal and, 218 – 31 ; WW
II and, 230 – 45
Roosevelt, James, 237
Roosevelt, Theodore, 191 , 193 – 98 , 200 ,
208 , 306
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 254
Ross, Edmund G., 163
Ross, Gen. Robert, 73
Rough Riders, 191
Rove, Karl, 322 – 23 , 323 , 332
rubber, 118 , 229
Ruff, Charles, 321
Rumsfeld, Donald, 326 , 328 – 30 , 333
Rural Electrifi cation Administration,
225
Rush, Richard, 85
Russell, John, 169
Russia, 84 , 85 , 189 ; post–Soviet, 303 ,
329 ; Revolution, 202 – 4. See also
Soviet Union
Rust Belt, 313Sackville-West, Sir Lionel, 180 – 81
Sadat, Anwar el-, 290 – 91
St. Augustine, Spanish settle ( 1565 ), 7
St. Lawrence River, 4 , 8 , 9 ; Seaway, 259
St. Louis Democrat, 170
Saipan, Battle of, 242
Salary Grab Act ( 1873 ), 171
Salerno, Battle of, 241
Samoset, 14
Sandburg, Carl, 209
San Ildefonso, Treaty of ( 1800 ), 68
San Salvador, 5
Santee tribe, 18
Saratoga, Battle of, 43 , 44
Sargent, Nathan, 129