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Abbott, Grace Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Sir John (Joseph Caldwell) Aberhart, William Abernathy, Ralph David abolitionism Abzug, Bella Acheson, Dean (Gooderham) Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Addams, Jane Agnew, Spiro T(heodore) Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) Alabama claims Alamo Alaska Purchase Albany Congress

Alden, John Aldrich, Nelson W(ilmarth) Alien and Sedition Acts Allen, Ethan Altgeld, John Peter American Anti-Slavery Society American Civil War American Fur Co. American Labor Party American Legion American Protective Association (APA) American Revolution Ames, Fisher Amistad mutiny André, John Andrews, Roy Chapman Andros, Sir Edmund Annapolis Convention Anthony, Susan B(rownell) Anti-Federalists

Anti-Masonic Movement Antietam, Battle of Antirent War Appleseed, Johnny Arnold, Benedict Arnold, Henry (Harley) Aroostook War Arthur, Chester A(lan) Articles of Confederation Ashley, William Henry assistance, writ of Astor, John Jacob Atlanta Campaign Atlanta Compromise Attucks, Crispus Austin, Stephen (Fuller) baby boom Bacon, Nathaniel Baker, Newton D(iehl) Balch, Emily Greene

Baldwin, Robert Baldwin, Roger (Nash) Ballinger, Richard A(chilles) Baltimore (of Baltimore), George Calvert, 1st Baron Bank of the United States Bank War Banneker, Benjamin Barkley, Alben W(illiam) Barry, John Barton, Clara Baruch, Bernard (Mannes) Bataan Death March Bayard, Thomas Francis Bean, Roy Bear Flag Revolt Beauregard, P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) Becknell, William Beckwourth, Jim Bell, John Benjamin, Judah P(hilip)

Bennett (of Mickleham and of Calgary and Hopewell), Richard Bedford Bennett, Viscount Benton, Thomas Hart Benton, William (Burnett) Berger, Victor (Louis) Bering Sea Dispute Berkeley, Sir William Berlin blockade and airlift Berrigan, Daniel (Joseph) and Philip (Francis) Bethune, (Henry) Norman Beveridge, Albert J(eremiah) Biddle, James Biden, Joe Bidwell, John Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Big Stick Policy Billy the Kid Birney, James G(illespie) Bishop, William Avery black codes Black Friday

Black Panther Party (for Self-Defense) Black, Hugo (La Fayette) Blaine, James G(illespie) Blair, Henry William Blake, Edward Bleeding Kansas Bliss, Tasker (Howard) Bliss, William D(wight) P(orter) Bloomer, Amelia Blount, William Bond, (Horace) Julian Bonnie and Clyde Bonus Army Boone, Daniel Booth, John Wilkes bootlegging Borah, William E(dgar) Borden, Lizzie (Andrew) Borden, Sir Frederick (William) Borden, Sir Robert (Laird)

Boston Massacre Boston Police Strike Boston Strangler Boston Tea Party Boucher, Jonathan Boudinot, Elias Bowie, Jim Bowles, Chester (Bliss) Brébeuf, Saint Jean de Braddock, Edward Bradford, William Bradley, Omar N(elson) Bradley, Thomas Bragg, Braxton Brain Trust Branch Davidians Brandywine, Battle of the Breckinridge, John C(abell) Brent, Margaret Brewer, David J(osiah)

Bricker, John W(illiam) Bridger, Jim Brisbane, Albert Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education) Browder, Earl (Russell) Brown, George Brown, John Brown, Molly Brownsville Affair Bruce, Blanche K(elso) Bryan, William Jennings Buchanan, James Buckley, William F(rank), Jr. Buckner, Simon Bolivar Buell, Don Carlos Buena Vista, Battle of buffalo soldier Bull Moose Party Bull Run, Battles of Bunche, Ralph (Johnson)

Bundy, McGeorge Bunker Hill, Battle of Burgesses, House of Burgoyne, John Burlingame, Anson Burnside, Ambrose (Everett) Burr, Aaron Burroughs, John Bush, George (Herbert Walker) Bush, George W(alker) Butler, Benjamin F(ranklin) Cabot, George Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez Calamity Jane Calhoun, John C(aldwell) Calvert, Leonard Cambridge Agreement Cameron, Simon Campbell, Kim Canada Act

Canada Company Canada Day Cannon, Joseph (Gurney) Capone, Al(phonse) Carnegie, Dale Carondelet, (Francisco Luis) Hector, baron de carpetbagger Carroll, Charles Carson, Kit Carter, Jimmy Cartier, Sir George Étienne, Baronet Carver, Jonathan Cass, Lewis Cassidy, Butch Catt, Carrie Chapman Cerro Gordo, Battle of Châteauguay, Battle of Chambers, (David) Whittaker Chancellorsville, Battle of Chapman, Maria Weston

Charlottetown Conference Chase, Salmon P(ortland) Chattanooga, Battle of Chauncy, Charles Cheney, Dick Chennault, Claire L(ee) Cherry Valley Raid Chesnut, Mary Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Chickamauga, Battle of Child, Lydia Maria Chippewa, Battle of Chisholm Trail Chisholm, Shirley Chouteau, (René) Auguste Chrétien, (Joseph-Jacques) Jean Cincinnati, Society of the Citizen Genêt Affair civil rights movement Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Claiborne, William Clark, Champ Clark, George Rogers Clark, Mark (Wayne) Clark, William Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Henry Clay, Lucius D(uBignon) Clayton, John Middleton Clear Grits Clergy Reserves Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover Clinton, Bill Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sir Henry Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Cobb, Howell Coddington, William

Cody, William F(rederick) Coffin, Levi Colfax, Schuyler Colter, John Committees of Correspondence Compromise of 1850 Comstock, Anthony Confederate States of America Conkling, Roscoe Constitutional Act Constitutional Convention Continental Congress Contreras, Battle of Conway, Thomas Coolidge, (John) Calvin Copperhead Cornplanter Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Coughlin, Charles E(dward) coureur de bois

cowboy Cox, James M(iddleton) Coxey's Army Crédit Mobilier scandal Craig, Sir James (Henry) Crawford, William H(arris) Crittenden Compromise Crittenden, John J(ordan) Crockett, Davy Croghan, George Culpeper's Rebellion Curley, James Michael Currie, Sir Arthur William Cushing, Caleb Custer, George Armstrong Dahmer, Jeffrey Daley, Richard J(oseph) Dallas, George Mifflin Dalton brothers Daniels, Josephus

Dare, Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Davenport, John Davis, Angela (Yvonne) Davis, Benjamin O(liver), Jr. Davis, David Davis, Jefferson Dawes General Allotment Act Dawes, Charles G(ates) Day, Dorothy De La Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron De Leon, Daniel Dean, John Wesley, III Deane, Silas Dearborn, Henry Decatur, Stephen Declaration of Independence Declaratory Act DeLancey, James Delany, Martin R(obison)

Democratic Party Dewey, George Dewey, Thomas E(dmund) Dickinson, John Diefenbaker, John G(eorge) Dies, Martin, Jr. Dillinger, John (Herbert) Dinwiddie, Robert Dirksen, Everett McKinley Dix, Dorothea (Lynde) Dixiecrat Dole, Bob Dole, Sanford Ballard Dollar Diplomacy Dongan, Thomas, 2nd earl of Limerick Donner party Doolittle, Jimmy Dorchester (of Dorchester), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorr, Thomas Wilson Douglas, Sir James

Douglas, Stephen A(rnold) Douglas, Tommy Douglass, Frederick Draft Riot of 1863 Du Bois, W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt) Dubinsky, David Dulany, Daniel DuLhut, Daniel Greysolon, Lord Dulles, Allen W(elsh) Dulles, John Foster Dummer, Jeremiah Durham, John George Lambton, 1st earl of Dust Bowl Early, Jubal A(nderson) Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp) East Saint Louis Race Riot Eaton, Cyrus S(tephen) Edmunds, George Franklin Ehrlichman, John D(aniel) Eisenhower Doctrine

Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid) Electoral Commission Elgin, James Bruce, 8th earl of Emancipation Proclamation Embargo Act Ervin, Sam Essex Junto Evans, George Henry Evarts, William Maxwell Evers, Medgar (Wiley) Fall, Albert Bacon Fallen Timbers, Battle of Farley, James A(loysius) Farmer-Labor Party Farragut, David G(lasgow) Federalist Party Ferraro, Geraldine (Anne) Fessenden, William Pitt Fillmore, Millard Fink, Mike

first lady Fish, Hamilton Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Force Acts Ford Foundation Ford, Gerald R. Forrestal, James V(incent) Fort Stanwix, Treaties of Foster, Abigail Kelley Foster, William Z(ebulon) Four Freedoms Fourteen Points Frémont, John C(harles) Franklin, Benjamin Fraser, Simon Fredericksburg, Battle of Free Silver Movement Free-Soil Party Freedmen's Bureau Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore

French and Indian War Friedan, Betty Fries's Rebellion Fugitive Slave Acts Fulbright, J(ames) William Gabriel Gadsden Purchase Gadsden, James gag rule Gallatin, (Abraham Alfonse) Albert Galloway, Joseph Gallup, George (Horace) Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch Ganioda'yo Garfield, James A(bram) Garner, John Nance Garnet, Henry Highland Garrett, Pat(rick Floyd) Garrison, William Lloyd Garvey, Marcus (Moziah)

Gates, Horatio Germantown, Battle of Gerry, Elbridge Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Battle of GI Bill (of Rights) Girard, Stephen Giuliani, Rudolph W(illiam) Glass, Carter Gnadenhütten Massacre Goethals, George Washington gold rush Goldberg, Arthur J(oseph) Goldman, Emma Goldwater, Barry M(orris) Good Feelings, Era of Gore, Al Gorgas, Josiah Gorges, Sir Ferdinando Gould, Jay

Grand Trunk Railway grandfather clause Granger movement Grant, Ulysses S. Great Society Green Berets Greenback movement Greene, Nathanael Grimké sisters Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Haldeman, H(arry) R(obbins) Hale, John Parker Hale, Nathan Halleck, Henry W(ager) Halsey, William F(rederick), Jr. Hamilton, Alexander Hampton Roads Conference Hampton, Wade Hancock, John Hancock, Winfield Scott

Hanna, Mark Hardee, William J(oseph) Harding, Warren G(amaliel) Harriman, W(illiam) Averell Harris, Townsend Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Hartford Convention Hat Act Hatch Act Hatfields and McCoys Hay, John (Milton) Hayes, Rutherford B(irchard) Haymarket Riot Hayne, Robert Young Haywood, William D(udley) Hefner, Hugh (Marston) Helper, Hinton Rowan Hendricks, Thomas A(ndrews) Hennepin, Louis

Henry, Patrick Hewitt, Abram S(tevens) Hickok, Wild Bill Hillquit, Morris Hiss, Alger Hoar, Ebenezer R(ockwood) Hoar, George Frisbie Hobby, Oveta Culp Hoffman, Abbie Holliday, Doc Hollywood Ten Homestead Movement Homestead Strike Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Hoover Commission Hoover, Herbert (Clark) Hoover, J(ohn) Edgar Hopkins, Esek Hopkins, Harry L(loyd)

Hopkins, Johns Hopkinson, Francis House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) House, Edward M(andell) Houston, Sam(uel) Howard, Oliver O(tis) Howe, Julia Ward Howe, William Howe, 5th Viscount Hudson's Bay Co. Hughes, Sir Samuel Hull, Cordell Hull, Isaac Hull, William Humphrey, Hubert H(oratio) Hunkers and Barnburners Hunters' Lodges Huntington, Collis P(otter) Hurley, Patrick J(ay) Hutchinson, Anne Hutchinson, Thomas

Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne d' Independence Day Indian Removal Act Indian Reorganization Act Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Institut Canadien Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) Intolerable Acts Iran hostage crisis Iran-Contra Affair Iron Act Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Jesse (Louis) Jackson, Stonewall James, Jesse and James, Frank Jay, John Jefferson, Thomas Jesuit Estates Controversy Jim Crow Law

John Birch Society Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Frank (Minis), Jr. Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) Johnson, Richard M(entor) Johnson, Sir William, 1st Baronet Johnston, Joseph E(ggleston) Johnstown Flood Jolliet, Louis Jones, John Paul Jordan, Barbara C(harline) Julian, George W(ashington) Kaczynski, Theodore Kalb, Johann Kamehameha IV Kansas-Nebraska Act Kearny, Stephen Watts Kellogg, Frank B(illings) Kelly, George Kemp, Jack (French)

Kennan, George F(rost) Kennedy, Edward M(oore) Kennedy, John F(itzgerald) Kennedy, Joseph P(atrick) Kennedy, Robert F(rancis) Keokuk Key, David M(cKendree) Key, Francis Scott King Cotton King George's War King Philip's War King William's War King, Martin Luther, Jr. King, Rufus King, W(illiam) L(yon) Mackenzie King, William Rufus de Vane Kings Mountain, Battle of Kirkland, Samuel Kissinger, Henry A(lfred) Klondike gold rush

Knights of Labor Know-Nothing Party Knox, Henry Knox, Philander Chase Kosciuszko, Tadeusz Koch, Ed(ward Irving) Lévesque, René La Follette, Robert M(arion) La Galissonnière, Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Guardia, Fiorello H(enry) La Hontan, Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de Labor Day Laffite, Jean LaFontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte, Baronet Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte Landon, Alf Landrum-Griffin Act Lansky, Meyer

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid Lawrence, James Leahy, William D(aniel) Lee, Ann Lee, Henry Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E(dward) Leisler, Jacob LeMay, Curtis E(merson) lend-lease Leopold, (Rand) Aldo Lesage, Jean Lewis and Clark Expedition Lewis, Meriwether Lexington and Concord, Battles of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Liberal Party of Canada Liberty Party Liberty, Sons of Liliuokalani

Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lions Clubs, International Association of Little Turtle Livingston, Robert R. Livingston, William Locofoco Party Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Cabot Logan, James Long, Huey (Pierce) Longstreet, James Lord Dunmore's War Lovejoy, Elijah P(arish) loyalist Luce, Clare Boothe Luciano, Lucky Lundy, Benjamin MacArthur, Douglas

Macdonald, Sir John (Alexander) Macdonough, Thomas Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, William Lyon Macon, Nathaniel Macphail, Agnes Campbell Madison, James Mahone, William Maine, destruction of the Mance, Jeanne Manhattan Project Manifest Destiny Manila Bay, Battle of Mansfield, Michael (Joseph) Manson, Charles Manzanar Relocation Center Marchand, Jean Marcy, William L(earned) Marion, Francis Marquette, Jacques

Marshall Plan Marshall, George C(atlett) Marshall, Thomas R(iley) Mason, George Mason, James Murray Mason-Dixon Line Massasoit Massey, (Charles) Vincent Masterson, Bat Mayflower Compact McAdoo, William G(ibbs) McCarthy, Eugene J(oseph) McCarthy, Joseph R(aymond) McClellan, George B(rinton) McClung, Nellie McCulloch, Hugh McGovern, George S(tanley) McKinley, William McNamara, Robert S(trange) Meade, George G(ordon)

Memminger, Christopher G(ustavus) Memorial Day Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro Menninger family Meredith, James (Howard) Mexican War Midway, Battle of Milk, Harvey (Bernard) Minuit, Peter minuteman Missouri Compromise Mitchell, Billy Mitchell, John (Newton) Mitscher, Marc A(ndrew) Mobile Bay, Battle of Moley, Raymond (Charles) Molly Maguires Mondale, Walter F(rederick) Monitor and Merrimack, Battle of the Monroe, James

Montcalm (de Saint-Véran), Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, marquis de Moore, Ely Morgan, Daniel Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morrow, Dwight W(hitney) Mosby, John Singleton Moses, Robert Mother's Day and Father's Day Mott, Lucretia Moultrie, William Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Mugwump Mulroney, (Martin) Brian Murder, Inc. Murphy, Audie (Leon) Murphy, Frank Nashville Convention Nation, Carry (Amelia)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) national forest National Guard, U.S. national monument National Organization for Women (NOW) National Recovery Administration (NRA) National Republican Party National Rifle Association (NRA) Ness, Eliot New Deal New Democratic Party New England Confederation New Nationalism New Orleans, Battle of New Orleans, Battle of Newton, Huey P(ercy) Nicolet, Jean Nicolls, Richard Nimitz, Chester W(illiam) Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)

Nonpartisan League Nootka Sound Controversy Norris, George W(illiam) North West Co. Northwest Ordinances Noyes, John Humphrey Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) nullification Oñate, Juan de O'Brien, Lawrence O'Mahony, John O'Neill, John Oakley, Annie Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Oglethorpe, James (Edward) Ohio Co. Ohio Idea Olney, Richard Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy Open Door policy

Oregon Question Oregon Trail Ostend Manifesto Oswald, Lee Harvey Otis, Harrison Gray Otis, James Owen, Robert Dale Pacific Railway Acts Paine, Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Palmer, A(lexander) Mitchell Pan-American Union Papineau, Louis Joseph Parker, Alton B(rooks) Parks, Rosa Parson's Cause Parti Québécois Paterson, William Patton, George S(mith) Paxton Boys uprising

Peace Corps Pearl Harbor attack Pearson, Lester B(owles) Peary, Robert E(dwin) Pendergast, Thomas J(oseph) Pendleton Civil Service Act Pendleton, George (Hunt) Penn, William Pentagon Papers Pepper, Claude (Denson) Perkins, Frances Perot, H(enry) Ross Perry, Matthew C(albraith) Perry, Oliver Hazard Pershing, John J(oseph) personal-liberty laws Petersburg Campaign Philippine Sea, Battle of the Phillips, Wendell Pickering, Timothy

Pickett, George E(dward) Pierce, Franklin Pike, Zebulon Montgomery Pilgrims Pinchback, Pinckney (Benton Stewart) Pinchot, Gifford Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Eliza Pinckney, Thomas Pinkerton National Detective Agency Pitcher, Molly Platt, Orville Hitchcock Plymouth Company Point Four Program Polk, James K(nox) Pony Express Pope, John popular sovereignty Populist Movement

Porter, David Porter, David Dixon Porter, Fitz-John Post, Emily Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. Powell, Colin (Luther) Power, Charles Gavan preemption Preparedness Movement prize cases Proclamation of 1763 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Progressive Party Prohibition Prohibition Party Prophet, The proprietary colony Public Works Administration Pueblo Incident Pugwash Conferences

Pullman Strike Putnam, Israel Putnam, Rufus Quantrill, William C(larke) Quayle, (James) Dan(forth) Quebec Act Quebec, Battle of Queen Anne's War Radical Republican Randolph, A(sa) Philip Randolph, Edmund Jennings Randolph, John Rankin, Jeannette Rapier, James T(homas) Ray, James Earl Rayburn, Sam(uel) (Taliaferro) Reagan, Ronald W(ilson) Reconstruction Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) Red Cloud

Red River Indian War Reed, Thomas B(rackett) Reform Party Regulators of North Carolina Republican Party Revels, Hiram R(hoades) Revere, Paul Ribaut, Jean Rickover, Hyman G(eorge) Ridgway, Matthew B(unker) Riis, Jacob A(ugust) Roberval, Jean-François de la Rocque, lord de Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, count de Rockefeller Foundation Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, John D(avison) Rockefeller, Nelson (Aldrich) Rodney, Caesar Rogers, Robert Rolfe, John

Roosevelt, (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt, Theodore Root, Elihu Rosecrans, William S(tarke) Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius Ross, Betsy Ross, John Rough Rider Rowlandson, Mary Royal Canadian Mounted Police Ruffin, Edmund rural electrification Rush, Richard Rusk, (David) Dean Rustin, Bayard Sacco-Vanzetti case Saint Albans Raid Saint Laurent, Louis (Stephen) Salem witch trials

Salomon, Haym Sampson, William T(homas) Sand Creek Massacre Sanger, Margaret Saratoga, Battles of scalawag Schultz, Dutch Schurz, Carl Schuyler, Philip John Schwarzkopf, H. Norman Scopes Trial Scott, Winfield Scottsboro case Sears, Isaac secession Seminole Wars Semmes, Raphael Seneca Falls Convention September 11 attacks Serra, Junípero

Seven Days' Battles Seven Oaks Massacre Sevier, John Sewall, Samuel Seward, William H(enry) Shaughnessy (of Montreal and Ashford), Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaw, Anna Howard Shays's Rebellion Sheridan, Philip H(enry) Sherman Antitrust Act Sherman, John Sherman, Roger Sherman, William Tecumseh Shiloh, Battle of Shirley, William Siegel, Bugsy Simcoe, John Graves Sims, William Sowden Slidell, John Smalls, Robert

Smallwood, Joey Smith, Alfred E(manuel) Smith, Gerrit Smith, Hoke Smith, John Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Samuel Smithsonian Institution Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Social Credit Party Social Gospel Social Security Act Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Sovereign Council Spaatz, Carl (Andrews) Specie Circular Square Deal Stamp Act Standish, Myles Stanton, Edwin M(cMasters)

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stark, John Starr, Belle Steffens, (Joseph) Lincoln Stephens, Alexander H(amilton) Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr. Steuben, Frederick William (Augustus), Baron, von Stevens, Thaddeus Stevenson, Adlai E(wing) Stilwell, Joseph W(arren) Stimson, Henry L(ewis) Stirling, William Alexander, 1st earl of Stock Market Crash of 1929 Stockton, Robert F(ield) Stone, Lucy Stonewall riots Stono rebellion Strong, William Stuart, Jeb Studebaker family

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Stuyvesant, Peter Sugar Act Sumner, Charles Sumter, Thomas Sutter, John (Augustus) Symington, (William) Stuart Taft, Robert A(lphonso) Taft, William Howard Taft-Hartley Act Tammany Hall Tappan, Arthur Taylor, John Taylor, Maxwell (Davenport) Taylor, Zachary Tea Act Teapot Dome scandal Tenure of Office Act Texas Rangers Thames, Battle of the

Thanksgiving Day Thomas, George H(enry) Thomas, Norman (Mattoon) Three Mile Island Thurmond, (James) Strom Ticonderoga, Battle of Tilden, Samuel J(ones) Tillman, Benjamin R(yan) Tippecanoe, Battle of Tokyo Rose Tompkins, Daniel D. Toombs, Robert A(ugustus) Topeka Constitution Townshend Acts Tracy, Benjamin F(ranklin) Trade, Board of Trent Affair Trenton and Princeton, Battles of Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire Tripolitan War

Trudeau, Pierre (Elliott) Truman Doctrine Truman, Harry S. Trumbull, Lyman Trump, Donald J(ohn) Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Tugwell, Rexford G(uy) Turner, Nat Tweed, William Magear Twining, Nathan F(arragut) Tyler, John U-2 Affair Uncle Sam Underground Railroad Union League Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Vallandigham, Clement L(aird) Van Buren, Martin Van Cortlandt, Stephanus

Vance, Cyrus (Roberts) Vandenberg, Arthur H(endrick) Vanderbilt, Cornelius Veracruz incident Verrazzano, Giovanni da Vesey, Denmark Vicksburg Campaign Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Virginia Company Virginia Declaration of Rights Volcker, Paul A(dolph) Voting Rights Act Wade, Benjamin F(ranklin) Wade-Davis Bill Wagner Act Wagner, Robert F(erdinand) Walker, David Walker, James J(ohn) Walker, William Wallace, George C(orley)

Wallace, Henry A(gard) War Hawk War of 1812 War Powers Act Warren Commission Warren, Joseph Warren, Mercy Otis Washington, Booker T(aliaferro) Washington, George Washington, Harold Watergate scandal Watie, Stand Wayne, Anthony Weaver, James B(aird) Webster, Daniel Webster-Ashburton Treaty Wedemeyer, Albert C(oady) Weed, Thurlow Weiser, Johann Conrad Weld, Theodore Dwight

Welles, Gideon Wells, Ida B(ell) West Florida Controversy Whig Party Whiskey Rebellion Whiskey Ring White, John Whitman, Marcus Whitney, William C(ollins) Wilderness, Battle of the Wilkins, Roy Wilkinson, James Williams, Roger Willkie, Wendell L(ewis) Wilmot Proviso Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson, James Winslow, Edward Winslow, Josiah Winthrop, John

Witherspoon, John Wolcott, Oliver Wolfe, James woman suffrage Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Women's Army Corps (WAC) Wood, Leonard Woodhull, Victoria Workingmen's Party Wormley Conference WPA Wright, Frances Wyoming Massacre XYZ Affair Yamasee War Yancey, William Lowndes Yazoo land fraud York, Alvin C(ullum) Yorktown, Siege of Young America movement

Young, Andrew Young, Coleman