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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYKennedy, Robert, assassination of, 278,288KentuckyResolutions (1798), 117statehood (1792), 7-8Kerouac, Jack, 270Kerry, John F., 336-337Khomeini, Ayatollah, 292Khrushchev, Nikita, 284Kim Il-sung, 263King, Martin Luther, Jr.assassination of, 278, 288civil rights movement and, 240,241, 273, 283“I have a dream” speech, 276, 277King, Rufus, 72Kissinger, Henry, 289Know-Nothing Party, 120Korean War, 235, 263, 264Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 65Ku Klux Klan, 150, 201, 209LLabor unions, 121, 193-195air controllers strike, 309auto workers strikes, 228collective bargaining, 217Haymarket Square incident, 194membership in U.S., 227-228migrant farm workers, 250, 279-280mine workers membership/strikes,194-195, 227-228New Deal programs, 217post-World War I strikes, 206post-World War II strikes, 269railway worker strikes, 193, 194steel worker strikes, 194, 228textile worker strikes, 195“Wobblies,” 194-195See also under names of specificunionsLafayette, Marquis de, 65LaFollette, Robert, 196, 318-319Landon, Alf, 218Latin America, U.S. intervention, 184-185Latin American Revolution, 114-116Latino movement, 279-280League of Nations, 205-206, 226Lee, Richard Henry, 61, 64Lee, Robert E.capture of John Brown at Harper’sFerry, 139commander of Confederate Army,144declines command of Union Army,143portrait of, 95surrender at AppomattoxCourthouse, 146Leif (son of Erik the Red), 9Lenin, V.I., 259Levitt, William J., 268Lewis and Clark expedition,bicentennial commemorative stamp,46Lewis, John L., 227-228Lewis, Meriwether, 47Lewis, Sinclair, 210The Liberator, 91, 133LibrariesAmerican Philosophical Society(Philadelphia), 28in the colonies, 27, 28public libraries endowed byCarnegie, 97subscription, 28Lincoln, Abrahamassassination of, 147, 153at Civil War Union encampment,140-141Emancipation Proclamation, 144-145face of (Mount Rushmore), 170-171Free-Soil Party and, 138Gettysburg address, 142, 145on Grant, 95as president during Civil War, 142-147presidential election (1860), 139presidential election (1864), 147,153presidential inaugural address, 142senatorial campaign (1858), 138-139on slavery and the Union, 130, 138Lincoln, Benjamin, 63, 70Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858), 138-139Literary works“Beat Generation” (1950s), 270-271colonial period, 28-29“Harlem Renaissance,” 211“Lost Generation” (1920s), 109, 211New Deal programs and, 218See also names of individual authorsor worksLloyd George, David, 108Locke, John, 17, 32, 34, 61, 65, 73Lodge, Henry Cabot, 181, 184Logan, James, 28The Lonely Crowd (Riesman), 270Long, Huey P., assassination of, 217“Lost Generation” (1920s), 109, 211Louis XVI (French king), 64, 80Louisiana Purchase, 83-84Lovejoy, Elijah P., 134Lowell, James Russell, 147Luce, Henry, 258Lundestad, Geir, 262MMacArthur, Douglas, 225, 232, 263Macdonough, Thomas, 85Madison, James, 43, 72, 75, 76, 84-86,113as “Father of the Constitution,” 72Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 184Maine (U.S. warship) incident, 182Major, John, 330Malcolm X, 277Manhattan. See New YorkManhattan project (atomic bombdevelopment), 225Mann, Horace, 121Mao Zedong, 263, 289Marbury v. Madison (1803), 113Marcos, Ferdinand, 312Marshall, George C., 262Marshall, Johnas chief justice of the SupremeCourt, 49, 113funeral of, 168portrait of, 49Marshall Plan, 262Marshall, Thurgood, 244Martin, Josiah, 60MarylandCalvert family charter, 15, 30Catholic settlements, 15St. Mary’s, first town in, 15Toleration Act and religiousfreedom, 17Mason, George, 76MassachusettsBoston Massacre (1770), 56Boston Port Bill, 57Boston Tea Party (1773), 50-51, 57colonial government charter, 30-31early settlements, 13-14Old Granary Cemetery (Boston),162-163Salem witch trials, 35schools and education, 27Shays Rebellion, 70trade and economic development,24-25Massachusetts Bay Colony, 25, 31Massachusetts Bay Company, 18Mather, Cotton, 28, 40Mayflower Compact, 13, 22-23, 30Mayflower (ship), 13Mbeki, Thabo, 295McCarran-Walter Act (1952), 201McCarthy, Joseph R., 236, 266352353