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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYHispanicsin politics, 280See also Latino movementHiss, Alger, 266Hitler, Adolf, 201, 219Ho Chi Minh, 284Hohokam settlements, 7Holy Alliance, 115Homeland Security Department, 334Homestead Act (1862), 124, 152, 179,180Hoover, Herbert, 185, 211Hopewellians, 7Hopi Indians, 8Housing and Urban DevelopmentDepartment, 287Houston, Sam, 134Howe, William, 61-62Hudson, Henry, 14Hughes, Langston, 211Hull, Cordell, 221Humphrey, Hubert, 288Hungary, rebellion (1956), 265Hutchinson, Anne, 14IImmigrants and immigrationdiversity of immigrants, 200-201Ellis Island Monument, 102, 103,200illegal immigrants, 201immigration quotas, 201, 209“Little Italy” in New York City, 104-105Nativists and, 209policy reform, 307restrictions on immigration, 208-209Immigration Restriction League, 201Imperialism, 181-182Indentured servants, 18-19Indian Removal Act (1830), 125Indian Reorganization Act (1934), 181Indian WarsApache wars, 180, 181Custer’s Last Stand at LittleBighorn, 98-99, 180French and Indian War, 32-33Pequot War (1637), 16and westward expansion, 124, 180-181Indians of North America. See NativeAmericansIndividual rights, 34, 65, 76-77See also Civil rightsIndustrial development. See undernames of industryIndustrial Workers of the World(IWW), 194Interstate Commerce Commission(ICC), 159, 197, 198Inventionsadding machine, 157airplane, 107cash register, 157cotton gin, 114, 133light bulb/incandescent lamp, 106,157linotype machine, 157motion picture projector, 106, 157reaper (farm machine), 131, 158,160telegraph, 156telephone, 107, 156television, 268typewriter, 157Iran, U.S. relations, 292Axis of evil, 334Iraqelections (2005), 302provisional government, 335U.N. weapons inspections, 329,334-335U.S.-led invasion, 335Iron and steel industry, 157, 187strikes, 194, 228Iroquois Indians, 14, 16-17, 33Isolationism, 78, 206, 220IsraelEgypt invasion, 265Palestinian relations, 330U.S. policy, 264JJacinto, Battle of, 134Jackson, Andrewconflicts with Indians, 125as general in War of 1812, 86portrait of, 89as president of U.S., 89, 117-118presidential election (1824), 116presidential election (1828), 117Jackson, Helen Hunt, 181Jackson, Jesse, 253Jackson, Thomas J. (“Stonewall”), 144,145James I (British king), 12James II (British king), 31Jamestown colony (Virginia), 10, 12-13, 16Japanattack on Pearl Harbor, 212-213,221, 222Kamikaze suicide missions, 225surrender (1945), 226U.S. attacks on Hiroshima andNagasaki, 226U.S. relations, 186Japanese-Americans, internmentcamps, 222, 233Jay, John, 43, 64, 76, 81, 82Jay Treaty (Britain-U.S.), 81, 82Jazz Age, 210Jefferson Memorial (Wash., D.C.), 161Jefferson, Thomason abolition of slavery, 113as drafter of Declaration ofIndependence, 61face of (Mount Rushmore), 170-171as first State Department secretary,77portrait of, 46as president of U.S., 83on right of self-government, 68on slavery, 114as U.S. minister to France, 72, 79-80vs. Adams, 82vs. Hamilton, 48, 78-80“Jim Crow” laws (separate but equalsegregation), 151, 240, 272, 319Jobs, Steve, 296Johnson, Andrewimpeachment trial, 149-150as president of U.S., 147-149, 153Johnson, Lyndon B.civil rights supporter, 273, 277Great Society programs, 286-287portrait of, 245space program, 285Vietnam War policy, 287-288“War on Poverty,” 286Johnson-Reed National Origins Act(1924), 201, 209The Jungle (Sinclair), 196KKansasslavery issue and, 138territory (“bleeding Kansas”), 137,138Kansas-Nebraska Act, 137Kennan, George, 261Kennedy, John F.assassination of, 277, 286Bay of Pigs invasion, 284civil rights policy, 277, 283Cold War and, 284-285Cuban missile crisis, 284as president of U.S., 282-285space program, 285-286Vietnam War policy, 284-285West Berlin speech during ColdWar, 242-243350351