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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYEnforcement Acts (1870 and 1871),150English Civil War (1642-49), 31English colonizationearly settlements, 10-12French and Indian War and, 32-33map of, 36-37in Maryland, 15in Massachusetts, 13-14New England Confederation, 17English common law, 30Enola Gay (U.S. bomber), attacks onHiroshima nd Nagasaki, 226Environmental movement, 282, 298Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), 282Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 279Erik the Red, 9FFalwell, Jerry, 308Farragut, David, 143Faubus, Orval, 272Federal Aid Road Act (1916), 113Federal Artists Project, 218Federal Deposit and InsuranceCorporation (FDIC), 215Federal Emergency ReliefAdministration (FERA), 215Federal Employee Loyalty Program,266Federal Reserve Act (1913), 198Federal Reserve Board, 199, 218, 291,310Federal Reserve System, 119, 187, 198-199Federal Theatre Project, 218Federal Trade Commission, 199Federal Workingman’s CompensationAct (1916), 199Federal Writers Project, 218The Federalist Papers, 43, 76Federalists, 76, 78, 81, 82, 86, 116The Feminine Mystique (Friedan), 278The Financier (Dreiser), 196Finney, Charles, Grandison, 87Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 210Force Act, 118Ford, Gerald, 290-291Ford, Henry, 109Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922), 207Foreign policy. See U.S. foreign policyFranceLouisiana Territory sold to U.S.,83-84New World exploration, 9-10U.S. diplomatic relations, 82-83XYZ Affair, 82Franco-American Treaty of Alliance(1778), 62-63, 80, 82Franklin, Benjamin, 28, 33, 43, 63, 64,72, 75Free Soil Party, 136, 137, 138Freedmen’s Bureau, 148, 151Fremont, John, 138French and Indian War, 32-33French exploration, 10French Huguenots, 24French Revolution, 34, 79, 80, 81Friedan, Betty, 278, 279Friedman, Milton, 308Fugitive Slave Act, 136, 137Fundamentalism, religious, 209, 210,308GGage, Thomas, 59Gallatin, Albert, 83Garrison, William Lloyd, 91, 122, 133-134Garza, Eligio “Kika” de la, 280Gates, Bill, 296Gates, Horatio, 62, 63-64Gay rights, 307, 324-325Genet, Edmond Charles, 80-81George, Henry, 160George III (British king), 55, 59Georgiacolonial royal government, 31early settlement, 18Native American tribes relocated,118German unification, 316GermanyBerlin Airlift, 262Kennedy speech in West Berlin,242-243postwar period, 262reparations, World War I, 224Germany in World War IIHolocaust (Jewish genocide), 226Nazism, 219, 224, 226North African campaign, 222Nuremberg war crime trials, 226reparations, 206submarine warfare, 204-205Geronimo (Apache chief), 181Gerry, Elbridge, 72, 73Ghent, Treaty of (1814), 85Gilbert, Humphrey, 10The Gilded Age (Twain), 196Ginsberg, Allen, 271Glenn, John, 285Glorious Revolution (1688-89), 31, 32Goethals, George W., 185Goldwater, Barry, 286, 308, 309Gompers, Samuel, 194González, Henry B., 280Gorbachev, Mikhail, 304-305, 314, 315,316Gore, Al, 323, 332, 333Gould, Jay, 194Grange movement, 191Grant, Ulysses S.portrait of, 95as president of U.S., 150, 153as Union Army general, 144, 145Great Depression (1929-40)decline in immigration, 201“Dust Bowl” migration, 216New Deal programs, 214-218soup lines, 202-203stock market crash (1929), 211“Great Society,” 286-287Greeley, Horace, 112, 124Green Party, 332Greenspan, Alan, 327Grey, Zane, 180Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of, 135Guam, U.S. relations, 184HHaiti, political situation, 330Hamilton, Alexanderand Bank of the United States, 79,118Constitutional Conventiondelegate, 71, 72Federalist Papers and, 43, 76as first Treasury Departmentsecretary, 77portrait of, 48and Republican Party, 152vs. Jefferson, 48, 78-80Hamilton, Andrew, 28Harding, Warren G., 207Harrison, Benjamin, 160Harrison, William Henry, 85, 120Hartford Convention (1814), 117Harvard College, 27Hawaii, statehood (1959), 184Hawaiian Islands, U.S. policy ofannexation, 183-184Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act (1930), 207Hay, John, 184, 186Hayes, Rutherford B., 150-151, 153Haymarket Square incident, 194Helsinki Accords (1975), 291Hemingway, Ernest, 109, 210Henry, Patrick, 42, 54, 76, 77Hepburn Act (1906), 197Hidalgo, Miguel de, 114Highway Act (1956), 268348349