Index
Note: Page numbers followed by b refer to box; c, chart; g, graph; m, map; i, illustration; p, photo; q, quotation; t, table.
A
Abernathy, Ralph American Experience
- Abernathy, Ralph, 923
- abolition, 320, 325, 331i
- See also antislavery movement
- abortion, 1026, 1061, 1078
- abstract art, 685
- Acheson, Dean, 855q
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 1085, 1085p
- activists
- Adams, Abigail, 126, 131q, 191q, 1174q
- Adams, John, 97q, 100q, 105, 134q, 193, 197, 201–202, 1175q
- Adams, John Quincy, 246, 249–250, 255
- Adams, Samuel, 101, 103, 108, 151
- Adamson Act (1916), 578
- Adams-Onís Treaty, 246
- Addams, Jane, 552, 559q, 567, 575
- Adjusted Compensation Act (1924), 723
- adobe, 6
- advertising, 481, 628p, 630, 630p, 631p, 636p, 662i, 663–664
- affirmative action, 154i, 944, 1048–1049, 1062, 1129
- Afghanistan, 1006q, 1064, 1088, 1124–1125, 1124m
- AFL-CIO, 894, 894p
- See also American Federation of Labor (AFL); Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
- Africa
- Columbian Exchange and, 26
- democracy in, 955, 1094–1095, 1094–1095p
- Middle Passage from, 68–69i, 69–70
- migration to, 280, 691
- in triangular trade, 76, 77m
- wars in North, 209, 804–805, 804m
- West (1400–1700s), 15–18, 16m
- after WWI and WWII, 643, 836, 836m
- African Americans
- 1700s (after Revolution), 126–127
- 1800s
- in alliance with white farmers, 536, 539
- as antislavery activists, 278q, 283, 333, 367p
- during Gilded Age, 520–523
- in industry workforce, 451
- Progressivism and, 565–567
- Reconstruction and, 403, 405, 413, 415, 422, 425, 495
- in the West, 306, 509, 510
- 1910s Great Migration of, 634–635, 634m
- 1920s, 669, 675, 690–694
- 1930s–1940s, 717, 749–750
- 2000s, 1129
- actors/athletes, 485, 900, 917
- discrimination against. See discrimination education of, 404p, 415, 484, 495
- elected/appointed, 410–411, 410q, 422p, 425g, 944
- enslavement of. See slavery
- free during slavery. See free blacks music/musicians, 281i, 691–693, 760, 901
- political party votes of, 751g
- religion/churches of, 267, 279, 415, 495
- voting rights of, 409, 411, 520–521, 521g, 916q, 936–938, 938t, 947
- in/during wars
- American Revolution, 127
- Civil War, 321p, 368–371, 370p, 395
- Spanish-American War, 596p
- Vietnam War, 993, 993p, 993t
- WWI, 640, 647p, 647q, 648
- WWII, 792, 806–807, 807p, 811–812, 839
- women, as reformers, 559, 559b
- writers, 551, 686, 693–694, 762, 839, 945q See also civil rights movement
- African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, 267
- Afrika Korps, 804
- Age of Jackson, 249–254
- Agent Orange, 986
- Agnew, Spiro, 1049, 1051
- agrarian society, 324
- agriculture
- 1500s and prior, 5–6, 25i, 26
- 1700s (colonial), 75, 81
- 1850–1900, 451g
- 1920s, 665, 703–704, 703p
- Civil War and, 376, 395, 492
- Columbian Exchange and, 25i, 26, 94
- Gilded Age, 533–535, 534p
- Great Depression era, 712–716, 714t
- in New South, 494
- slavery and, 236–238, 237g, 284, 324, 327
- technology and, 232, 442
- in the West, 510–511
- WWI and, 629–630, 629g
- See also farmers/farming
- Agriculture, U.S. Department of, 572, 574
- Aguinaldo, Emilio, 595, 599–600, 600p
- AIDS. See Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- “Ain’t I a Woman” (Truth), 1179q
- “Ain’t We Got Fun?” (Kahn/Egan), 679q
- aircraft carriers (WWII), 789, 795, 807–808, 808p
- aircraft industry (WWII), 792p, 810
- airline industry (1920s), 682
- airplane warfare, 622t, 792g, 793, 795, 806–807, 806–807p, 825
- air-raid drills, 844p, 845, 866p
- air-traffic controllers strike, 1085
- al Qaeda, 1118, 1124–1125
- Alabama, 219, 522, 914p, 921–922, 929, 937, 949p
- Alamo (TX), 305p, 305q, 306
- Alamogordo (NM), 826
- Alaska, 4, 575, 588–589, 590i, 807, 1038p
- Al-Bakri, 16q
- Albania, 1089
- Albany (NY), 57
- Albany Plan of Union (1754), 88–89
- alcohol, 277, 527
- Aldrin, Edwin, 962p
- Aleutian Islands, 807
- Alger, Horatio, 437q, 483
- Algeria, 804
- Algonquins, 9, 41, 48
- Alianza Hispano-Americana, 525
- Alien Act (1798), 202, 205
- All in the Family (1970s), 1060p
- Allen, Frederick Lewis, 682
- Allen, Gracie, 759p
- Allen, Richard, 267
- Alliance for Progress, 955
- Alliance movement, 535–536
- alliances (WWI), 620–621
- Allied Powers
- in WWI, 620m, 621, 637–640, 639m, 642
- in WWII, 781, 790, 840c
- after WWII, 834–835, 837–838
- al-Qaddafi, Muammar, 1092
- Alsace-Lorraine, 618, 642
- amendments, constitutional
- First (Bill of Rights), 153, 158c, 161q, 632, 636, 972
- Fifth, 972
- Sixth, 972
- Ninth, 153
- Twelfth, 203
- Thirteenth, 391, 422
- Fourteenth, 407, 409t, 422, 522, 527, 972
- Fifteenth, 409, 409t, 422, 520–521, 527
- Sixteenth, 577, 578t
- Seventeenth, 555, 578t
- Eighteenth, 558, 558p, 578t, 677
- Nineteenth, 560–561p, 561–562, 578t, 633, 684
- Twenty-first, 678
- Twenty-second, 757
- Twenty-fourth, 938
- Twenty-fifth, 1051
- number added, 156
- during Progressive Era, 578t
- America First Committee, 784
- American Anti-Imperialist League, 598
- American Anti-Slavery Society, 283, 289
- American Architecture: Skyscrapers, 479p
- American Art
- Golden Age of Hollywood, 763p
- Hudson River School, 245i
- See also art
- American Bandstand (1950s), 902p
- American Birth Control League, 558
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 649, 672
- American Colonization Society (ACS), 280
- “American Creed” (Page), 1185q
- American Crisis (Paine), 118q
- “American Dream,” 710, 1127q
- American Experience