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African Americans: (continued)
529, 675–676, 805–807,
861–862, 893–895; political
party of, 670, 686; race
riots involving, 605, 720,
798–799, 805, 806–807,
814, 893; racial pride
of, 637–638; religion of,
308–309, 419, 777; resettlement
in Africa, 310,
311, 638; in Roosevelt
administration, 675, 676;
segregation of (See Segregation);
in Union Army,
401–402; voting rights
for, 427, 428–429, 446,
454–455, 798–799, 804–
805; wartime employment
of, 605; women, 429,
505, 861–862, 894–895;
World War II impact on,
719–720. See also Slavery
African Methodist Episcopal
Church, 419
Agassiz, Louis, 288, 494
Age, voting, 820
Th e Age of Reason
(Paine), 277
Agnew, Spiro T., 810–811,
819, 829
Agricultural Adjustment Act
(1933), 674
Agricultural Adjustment Act
(1938), 679
Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, 678
Agricultural Marketing Act
(1929), 657
Agriculture: as business,
523, 526–527, 744; cattle
ranching, 518–519; corn,
5–6, 266; cotton, 261–262,
298–302, 304, 306–308,
384, 474, 720; decline of,
458, 475; economic policies
impacting, 652, 657–
658, 678–680; economy
impacting, 526–528, 652,
657–658; farm subsidies
for, 678–679; international
trade in, 538, 540; as
leading colonial industry,
74–75; mechanization
of, 266–267, 523, 526,
652, 720, 744; Mexican
workers in, 718–719, 778;
Native American, 5–6;
New Deal policies on,
678–680; in New England,
65–66; Old World/New
World exchange of,
10–11; overproduction
in, 659, 678–679; politics
of farmers, 453, 528–530,
653; railroad impact on,
528–529; rice, 29; sugar
cane, 28–29, 542; tariff s
on, 649, 658; three-sister
farming, 6; tobacco industry,
25–27, 54–56, 74, 473;
wartime, 607, 717–719,
720; in West, 266–267,
519–521, 523, 526–528
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 545, 550
AIDS (acquired immunodefi -
ciency syndrome), 814
Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, 824
Air Force, 705–706, 724, 725,
731, 768, 779. See also
Military
Airplanes: aerospace industry
growth, 768; invention of,
634–635; passenger, 768;
Strategic Air Command,
768, 779; in terrorist attacks,
870–871; in World
War II, 705–706, 724,
725, 731
Alabama, 373, 798–799, 805
Alabama, 385–386
Alaska: Exxon Valdez spill in,
899; national park land
in, 842; oil pipeline in,
828; purchase of, 432–433;
statehood of, 786
Albany Congress, 95–96
Albee, Edward, 788
Albright, Madeleine, 867
Alcohol: prohibition of, 285,
506, 570–571, 607, 627–
628; repeal of prohibition
on, 678; temperance
crusade against, 284–285,
506, 570–571
Alcott, Louisa May, 295
Aldrich-Vreeland Act
(1908), 576
Alexander I, Tsar, 210
Alger, Horatio, 500
Algonquins, 25
Alien Laws (1798),
183–184, 192
Allen, Ethan, 124
Allende, Salvador, 822
Alliance for Progress, 796
Al Qaeda, 871, 874, 877
Alternative energy, 899
Altgeld, John P., 479, 531, 563
Amazon.com, 898
America First Committee,
706
American Anti-Slavery
Society, 311
American Association of
Retired Persons
(AARP), 878
American Colonization
Society, 310
American Federation of
Labor (AF of L), 479–480,
531, 604, 653, 683–685
American Independent
Party, 811
American Legion, 647
American Liberty League,
685
American Peace Society, 283
American Protective
Association, 491
American Red Cross, 506
American Revolution: Battle
of Long Island in, 131;
Battle of Saratoga in, 133;
Battle of Yorktown in,
138–139; British strengths
and weaknesses in, 114,
117; Canadian invasion
during, 124–126, 132;
colonies’ strengths and
weaknesses in, 117–120;
committees of correspondence
fostering, 110–111;
Declaration of Independence
and, 128–129;
eff ects of, 143–147; end
of, 138–141; expansion
to world war, 135; fi rst
bloodshed of, 114; France
as ally in, 115, 116–117,
133–135, 138–140; French
Revolution comparison
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