Index 365
Saturday-night massacre, 284 – 85
Saudi Arabia, 304
Savannah, 20 , 44 , 152
savings and loans crisis, 301
Sawyer, William, 98
scalawags, 162 , 175
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 117
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,
226
Schenck v. United States, 202
Schurz, Carl, 169 , 177
Schwarzkopf, Gen. Norman, 304
Scofield, Glenn W., 169
Scott, Dred, 139
Scott, Gen. Winfi eld, 124 – 25 , 143 – 44
Scowcroft, Brent, 328
secession: New England and, 74 ;
Mexican War and, 126 ; South and,
82 – 84 , 104 – 5 , 119 , 127 – 31 , 136 – 37 ,
139 , 141 – 43
Second Amendment, 278
Secret Service, 327
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC), 222 , 224 , 225
Sedgwick, Theodore, 56
Sedition Act: ( 1798 – 1801 ), 64 ; ( 1918 ),
201 – 2
segrega tion, 178 , 213 ; abolished in civil
service and armed forces, 253 ; ruled
unconstitutional, 261 – 63
Selective Service Act: ( 1917 ), 201 ;
( 1940 ), 233
Selective Service boards, 239
Selma–Montgomery Freedom March
of 1965 , 272 – 73
Seminole tribe, 79 – 80 , 100 , 101
Seneca tribe, 9
separation of church and state, 15
September 11 , 2001 , attacks, 325 – 26
Serbia, 304
Seven Cities of Cibola, 8
Seven Days Battle, 146
Seven Pines, Battle of, 147
Seventeenth Amendment ( 1913 ), 198
Seven Years’ War (French and Indian,
1755 – 1763 ), 28 – 29
Sewall, Arthur, 186
Seward, William H., 141 , 144 , 148 , 189
sex discrimination, 270 , 315
sexual harassment, 305 , 309
sexual revolution, 313 – 14
Seymour, Horatio, 164
Shakers, 114 – 15
Sharon, Ariel, 331
Shaw, Lemuel, 87
Shays’ Rebellion, 46 , 59
Shepard, Alan, Jr., 265
Shepperd, Augustine H., 92
Sherman, John, 163
Sherman, Roger, 40 , 48 , 50 , 54
Sherman, Gen. William T., 150 – 52
Sherman Antitrust Act ( 1890 ), 182 – 83 ,
198 – 99
Sherman Silver Purchase Act ( 1890 ),
181 – 82 , 185
Shriver, R. Sargent, 281 , 282
Sicily, Battle for, 241
Siegfried Line, 243
Silicon Valley, 316
silver (free silver), 171 – 72 , 176 , 181 – 82 ,
185 – 86 , 193
Simms, William Gilmore, 118
Simple, Oliver, 287
Simpson, “Sockless Jerry,” 183
Sinclair, Upton, 195 – 96
Singapore, 241
Single Taxers, 211
Sirhan, Sirhan, 278
Sirica, John J., 283 – 85
sit-ins, 263 , 273
Sixteenth Amendment ( 1913 ), 198 , 199
Sketch Book (Irving), 75 – 76
slaves and slavery, 17 – 18 , 22 , 47 , 50 ,
82 – 84 , 103 , 105 , 118 – 23 , 127 – 42 ;
abolished, 145 – 48 , 152 ; revolts and,
119 – 20 ; trade in, 24 , 50 , 130. See also
abolitionists
Slidell, John, 144
Smith, Alfred E., 212 – 13 , 218
Smith, John, 10 , 11 , 14
Smith, Joseph, 114
Smith, Margaret Bayard, 66