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AARP (American Association
of Retired Persons), 878
Abbott, Lyman, 482
ABM (anti-ballistic missile)
treaty, 822
Abolitionist movement:
antislavery societies,
144, 310–311; in Britain,
310, 312–313, 322, 384;
early, 310–311; Emancipation
Proclamation for,
399–401; Free Soil party
for, 339–340, 348; Fugitive
Slave Law stirring,
346–347; Harpers Ferry
revolt in, 369; in Kansas,
359–363; literature
on, 307, 311, 357–359,
384; Mexican, 248, 313;
popular sovereignty as
issue of, 338, 354, 359,
361, 368; radical, 311–315;
Republican Party born
from, 355–356; Southern
response to, 315–316;
Underground Railroad
in, 342–343, 346–347;
women’s role in, 313, 428;
World’s Anti-Slavery Convention
(1840), 312
Abortion, 823, 824, 831–832,
850–852, 858
Abraham Lincoln Brigade,
699–700
Abu Ghraib prison, 874, 878
Acheson, Dean, 758, 762,
772, 809
Act of Toleration (1649), 27
Adams, Abigail, 145
Adams, Charles Francis, 386
Adams, Henry, 435,
501–502, 638
Adams, John: on art, 290, 506;
on closure of courts, 147;
Constitutional Convention
absence of, 155; on
education, 81; as First
Continental Congress
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participant, 113; as lawyer,
74, 110; as Model Treaty
author, 134; as president,
181–184, 188–190, 193;
quotation by, 81, 102;
Treaty of Paris role of,
139–140
Adams, John Quincy: freedom
of speech defense
by, 316; as lawyer, 309; as
president, 226–230; quotation
by, 139; as Secretary
of State, 221–224; Treaty
of Ghent by, 210–211
Adams, Samuel: as antifederalist,
160, 161; committees
of correspondence by,
110–111; Constitutional
Convention absence of,
155; as First Continental
Congress participant,
113; quotation by, 69;
Revolutionary role of, 77,
110–111, 113, 130
Adamson Act (1916), 589
Adams-Onís Treaty, 222, 327
Addams, Jane, 490, 504, 563,
565, 583, 626
Adjusted Compensation Act
(1924), 647
Adkins v. Children’s
Hospital, 645
Adultery, 63–64
Adventists, 278
Advertising, 631
Affi rmative action, 801,
824–825, 832, 850, 857,
865, 875, 895
Affl uence. See Wealth
Th e Affl uent Society
(Galbraith), 770
Afghanistan, 838,
871–872, 900
Africa: American foreign
relations in, 834, 848, 866;
Dey of Algiers in, 152,
156; European domination
of, 557; European
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exploration of, 8–9;
resettlement of American
blacks in, 310, 311,
638; slaves from, 8–9,
26, 28–29, 57–62; World
War II impact on, 698,
725–726. See also specifi c
countries
African Americans: as abolitionists,
311; affi rmative
action for, 801, 824–825,
832, 850, 857, 865, 875,
895; in American Revolution,
119; Black Codes
on, 422–423; Black Power
of, 805–807; as Cabinet
appointees, 803, 895; civil
rights movement of (See
Civil rights movement);
culture of, 637–638, 640,
788, 896; desegregation of,
760, 776–777, 798–799,
800–801, 832; discrimination
of (See Racial
discrimination); education
for, 281, 282, 305,
309, 419–420, 495–496,
798, 800, 832, 894–896;
emancipation of, 400–401,
418–420; equality for,
445, 800–801, 804–807;
free blacks, 119, 305–306,
311, 313, 314, 364–365,
401–402; inner-city,
745–746, 832, 893–894;
Irish confl icts with,
257; Jim Crow laws for,
445–446, 455, 774–776;
Ku Klux Klan attacks on,
430–431, 623–624, 805;
labor unions and, 478;
migration of, 719–720,
745; in military, 119,
401–402, 514, 608, 720,
819; music of, 309, 637;
Nation of Islam and,
806; political participation
of, 428–430, 453–455,
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