James II, IIn.I
Jameson, J. F., 141n.
Jay, John, 77n., 99, 119, 126, 129, 143, 150, 199, 306
Jay-Gardoqui treaty, 127 f. Jay's Treaty, of 1794, 175f., 178f., 187f. Jefferson, Thomas, on grievances of American colonies, 58, 66 n., 70 and n., 72n.1, 74, 77 n., 78; and Decla- ration of Independence, 80; on Union, 109; on Articles of Confederation, 110; and Western land claims, 115; minister at Paris, 121f.; on Con- stitution, 135; on Washington, 149 n., Secretary of State, 150, 157, 169, 326; on Bank, 159; opposes Hamil- ton, 165, 166n.2, 185; organizes Republicans, 186f.; vice president, 189, 193; and Kentucky Resolutions, 194; elected president, 195f., 201; policy, 204f., 209f., 212; on New Orleans, 214f.; on West Florida, 220, 225f., 234; reëlected, 222; and Chesapeake affair, 239f.; criticisms of, 242 f.; on War of 1812, 260; on manufactures, 286; and Marshall, 308; on slavery, 311, 314; ordinance of 1784, 312f.; on states' rights, 337; Jeffersonian Democracy, 348 f.; birth- day dinner of 1830, 356f.
Jena, battle of, 235 Johnson, Arthur, 88 n. 1 Johnson, H. V., 520
Johnson, General R. M., 249, 269, 393 Johnston, General A. S., 558f.
Johnston, General J. E., 552f., 565,
Kalm, Peter, 42, 56 and n. Kansas, 492 f., 498f., 504 f., 507 Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 484 f. Kaskaskia, 100n.
Kearny, General S. W., 426 f.
Kearsarge, the, 618
Kendall, Amos, 384, 389
Kenesaw Mountain, battle of, 587 Kentucky, admitted, 313; loyalty of,
548, 556f.; invaded, 573 Kentucky Resolutions, 194 f. King, Rufus, 212, 232, 244, 288f., 316
King's Mountain, battle of, 94 "Know-Nothings," 470 f., 492 Knox, Henry, 150, 152
Kossuth, Louis, 460
Labor, in thirties, 359f.; in Civil War, 612 f.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 88, 97, 103 Lake Champlain, battle of, 271 Lake Erie, battle of, 268f. Lakes, Great, 481f. Lamar, president of Texas, 414 Land sales, 223, 293 Lane, Joseph, 520 La Salle, 36
Latin America, 338f. Laud, Archbishop, 11, 17, 73 Laurens, Colonel John, 97 Lawrence, Amos, 493 Lawrence, Captain, 267 Lawrence, Kansas, 495 Le Boeuf, Fort, 47
Lecky, W. E. H., quoted, 58f., 63, 79, 83,
Le Clerc, General, 215
Lecompton, Judge, 495, 499
Lecompton Constitution, 504 f.
"Lecompton Junior," 506
Lee, Charles, 89
Lee, Richard H., 78, 80, 110, 142 Lee, General Robert E., 516, 545f., 565f., 571f., 576n., 578, 590f., 601n. Lee, William, 81
Leisler, Jacob, 38n.
Leonard, Daniel, 70n.
Letcher, Governor, of Virginia, 549 Lewis and Clark expedition, 221 and n.,
Lexington, battle of, 75 Liberator, the, 380 Liberty party, 401
Lincoln, Abraham, in Congress, 440; in convention of 1856, 498; debates with Douglas, 508f.; Cooper Union speech, 518 f.; nominated in 1860, 521; on Compromise, 526; on secession, 536f.; first inaugural, 540f.; cabinet, 541 and n.; call for volunteers, 544; and McClellan, 567f.; opposition to, in 1862, 570f.; on Gettysburg, 578; on the freeing of the Mississippi, 580n.; criticism of, in 1863, 584 and n. 2, 598 f.; reëlected, 588; at Hampton Roads, 589; war powers, 592 f.; op- position to, in war, 598f.; on Re-
construction, 599; on the Treasury, 608; on war relief, 612n.; assassi- nation, 620; character, 620f. Lincoln, General Benjamin, 94 Lincoln, Levi, 201 n. 2, 206 Linn Bill, 437
Livermore, T. L., 552
Livingston, Edward, 219, 360
Livingston, R. R., 213
Locke, John, 73
Lodge, H. C., 153 and n.
Logan, General J. A., 589
Longstreet, General James, 570, 576
Lookout Mountain, battle of, 583 Lopez expedition, 463
Louis XIV, 3, 34, 38, 45 Louis XVI, 83, 93 Louisburg, 50
Louisiana, ceded to France, 213; pur- chased, 214f., 304; admitted as state, 219, 298, 309, 313 n. 1
Louisville, 573
Lovejoy, Elijah, 397, 509
Lowell, J. R., 422, 434, 450, 452, 528,
Lowndes, William, 249, 287, 330 Lundy's Lane, battle of, 270
Lyon, Captain Nathaniel, 548f. Lyons, Lord, 616f.
McClay, Senator, 151
McClellan, General G. B., 549 and n., 555f., 558, 564f., 567f., 570f., 588 McCulloch บธ. Maryland, 160n.1, 307
MacDonough, Thomas, 271
McDowell, General Irving, 553, 565 McDuffie, George, 345, 360, 367 f. McKay, Donald, 477 n.
McLane, Louis, 360, 383
McLean, John, 497 f., 502
McLean, Thomas, 197
McLeod, Alexander, 409 McMaster, J. B., quoted, 105 Macon Bill No. 2, 248f. Madison, James, 107; on Mississippi,
127; work for Constitution, 129, 136, 143; party affiliations, 163 n.1; on Virginia Resolutions, 194; Secretary of State, 206, 237, 243; president, 244f.; and War of 1812, 251f,, 254, 275f., 280f.; reëlected, 266; on ex- pansion, 282 f., 296; vetos Bank bill, 297 Magoffin, Governor, of Kentucky, 548
Marshall, John, 117, 133, 143n., 160n. 1, 180 f., 230, 306 f.
Martin, Luther, 139
Martin vs. Hunter's Lessee, 306 Martineau, Harriet, 381 n. Martinique, 61
Mason, George, 138 Mason, Jeremiah, 359 Mason, John M., 464, 616f. Maysville veto, 358
Maximilian of Austria, 619 f.
Meade, General George, 577 f. Mercantile theory, 27
Merchant marine, 478
Merry, Anthony, 229
Metternich, 215, 459
Mexican War, 421f., 434f.
Mexico, 322, 412, 414n., 422f., 514, 619f.
"Middle passage," the, 311 Milan Decree, 236
Mill Spring, battle of, 557 Minden, battle of, 50 Minutemen, 75
Miranda, 182 n.
Missionary Ridge, battle of, 583 f.
Mississippi, admission, 299
Mississippi River, 126f., 556 f., 580
Missouri, slavery in, 304n.; territory,
481, 561
Newport, 93
Niagara, 50, 263
Nicaragua, 461, 474 n.
Nominating conventions, 360 f.
Nonintercourse Act, of 1794, 188n.; of 1806, 235; of 1809, 242, 246; of 1811, 248; of 1861, 593
Nootka Sound controversy, 169, 212 North, Lord, 58, 69, 73, 79, 88 n.1, 92, 98, 109
Northwest Ordinance, 131 f., 313 Nullification, in 1798, 195; in 1832, 367f., 371f., 375f.
72, 75, 79, 8in.
Plantation system, 473 f. "Pocket veto," 600n. Poinsett, Joel R., 372
Polk, James K., Speaker of the House, 389; in campaign of 1844, 418f.; and Mexico, 423, 426f.; and Oregon, 438f.; on Cuba, 463
Polk, General Leonidas, 556 f. Polly case, 233 n. Pondicherry, 51 Pontiac, 59f.
"Pony express," 530
Pope, General John, 561, 569 f., 570n. "Popular sovereignty," 445 f., 505 Population, in 1790, 104 n.1, 313n.2; in 1850, 468; in 1860, 529, 550 Porter, Admiral, 579
Porter, General Fitz-John, 566 Porter, Peter B., 249, 251, 263, 269, 296 Port Hudson, 561, 580 and n. Port Royal, 34 n. Pottawatomie, 496 f.
Prevost, Sir George, 259, 270f.
Price, General Sterling, 549 Princeton, battle of, 89 Privateers, 278n. Proclamation Line, 60, 113 Procter, General, 267, 269 Public lands, 218n., 295, 391 Pulaski, Count, 88 Puritans, 11, 15 f.
Putnam, General Israel, 84 Pym, John, 23
Ray, P. O., 488 n.
Red Cross, 611 and n.2 Redemptioners, 9 n. 1 "Red Sticks," 273 Reeder, A. H., 493 f. Reid, Whitelaw, 55 Religion in colonies, 16 f. Removal of deposits, 383 f.
Renaissance, 5
Republicans, of 1791, 163 n.2; of 1815,
282; of 1854, 490f., 498, 537
Resaca de la Palma, battle of, 424 Restoration of 1660, 23
Revolution, American, 55f.
Revolution, English, 40
Revolution, French, see French Revolu- tion
Reynolds, General J. F., 577 Rhea letter, 300 and n. 1 Rhett, R. B., 457, 524n.
Rhode Island, 13, 38f., 61n.2, 65, 119, 122, 148n., 349 and n.2
Rhodes, J. F., quoted, 453 n., 460, 487,
489, 505n., 527n.3, 538, 581, 614n. Richmond, 550, 553, 564f., 586f., 591 Rives, W. C., 379
Robertson, James, 104, 113 Robinson, Charles, 494 f. Rochambeau, General, 96f. Rochefoucauld, Duke of, 16 Rockingham, Marquis of, 65, 98
Rodgers, Commodore, 250
Rodney, Admiral, 100
Roosevelt, Theodore, 150
Rose, George, 241
Rosecrans, General W. S., 573, 582 f.
Ross, Betsy, 309 n.
Ross, General, 272
Rousseau, L. H., 548
Rule of 1756, 173, 233n., 245 Rush, Richard, 324
Rusk Bill, 480
Russell, John, 254
Russell, Lord John, 616, 618 Russell, Jonathan, 275 f. Russell, W. H., 532
Russia, treaty with, 323, 327n. Rutledge, Edward, 111f., 306 Rutledge, John, 86 n., 151
St. Augustine, 300 and n.2
St. Clair, General Arthur, 167, 174 St. Leger, General, 90 f.
Sandford, John, 501 Sanitary Commission, 611 San Jacinto, battle of, 412
San Pascual, battle of, 427, 429
Santa Anna, General, 412, 423, 430f. Santa Fé, 426
Santo Domingo, 215 Saratoga, battle of, 91 Savannah, 94, 589 Savannah, the, 329 Schenectady, 46
Schuyler, General Peter, 91 Schwab, J. C., 610n. 2
Scott, Dred, 501f.
Scott, Sir William, 233n.
Scott, General Winfield, 269 f., 397,429 f.,
432f., 458, 525, 528 n. 1, 532, 54on.2, 542, 547, 552 f.
Secession, 523 f., 527, 534f. Sedition Act, 192 f.
Seminole War, 300 f.
Semmes, Captain Raphael, 618 Sequestration Act, 554
Seventh-of-March speech, 450f. Sewall, Samuel, 17
Seward, W. H., governor of New York, 395; on Texas, 436; and Tyler, 445; on Compromise of 1850, 453; on Kansas, 492; in campaign of 1856, 497; in campaign of 1860, 520f.; offers compromise, 538; Secretary of State, 541 and n.2, 542f.; on war, 551 n. 2; at Hampton Roads, 589; on Trent affair, 617; warns Napoleon III, 619
Seymour, Governor Horatio, 577 Shannon, Wilson, 494 f. Sharpsburg, see Antietam
Shays's Rebellion, 122, 129, 136 Shelburne, Lord, 99 Shenandoah, the, 618 Shenandoah campaign, 565 f.
Sheridan, General Philip H., 583 f., 588,
Sherman, General W. T., 579f., 586, 588 and n.2, 590f. Shields, General, 566 Shiloh, battle of, 560 f. Shipbuilding, 476, 562 and n. Slade of Vermont, 388f.
Slave trade, abolished in 1808, 244; in colonies, 311; on African coast, 409; in the fifties, 448, 473, 514f.; abol- ished in District of Columbia, 454 Slavery, introduction of, 310; and nullification, 376; in New Mexico, 440f., 446f.; status in 1850, 456; trend to lower South, 473 and n.1 and n.2; in Lincoln-Douglas debates, 510f.; and business, 531f.; discus- sion of, 539; during Civil War, 594f. Slidell, John, 423 f., 514, 581 n. 2, 615 f. Sloat, Commodore, 427 Smith, Caleb, 541 n.2 Smith, Goldwin, 546n. Smith, Justin H., 423, 435 n. Smith, General Kirby, 573, 591
Smith, Robert, 206, 244f., 249 Smith, Samuel, 206
Smith, General W. F., 583 Smythe, General Alexander, 263 Soulé, Pierre, 464 f.
"Southern Rights" associations, 457 Spain, explorers, 6f.; in Revolution, 96; disputes with, in West, 124f., 168f.; Treaty of San Lorenzo (1795), 177; sells Florida, 303; relations with, in 1850-1854, 462 f.
Sparks, Jared, 411n. Specie Circular, 392 f. Spoils system, 353
Spottsylvania, battle of, 587 'Squatter sovereignty," 445 f., 486 Stamp Act, 62 f., 67, 79
Stanton, Edwin M., 527 n.1, 541n.2, 556, 582f., 591n., 620 Star of the West, the, 529 Stars and Bars, 546 Star-Spangled Banner, 272
Stockton, Commodore R. F., 428
Stoddard, Benjamin, 181
Story, Justice, 13 n.2
Stephens, Alexander H., 77, 423, 485,
514, 527, 535, 589, 601 Stephenson, George, 381 Steuben, Baron, 88, 129 Stuarts, 1, 9 Subtreasury, 395
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