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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYRobertson, Pat, 308Robinson, Jackie, 237, 271Rochambeau, Comte Jean de, 64Rockefeller, John D., 158Roe v. Wade (1973), 279, 308, 324Rogers, William, 251Rolfe, John, 12Rommel, Erwin, 222Roosevelt, Eleanor, 324Roosevelt, Franklin D.death of, 224on democracy, 214, 219foreign policy, 185Good Neighbor Policy, 185labor unions and, 227New Deal programs, 214-218presidential elections (1932, 1936,1940), 207, 211, 218, 220Social Security Act, signing of, 230Social Security program, 218, 230World War II and, 219-220World War II peace negotiations,224at Yalta (1945), 224, 234Roosevelt, Theodoreaccession to the presidency, 195on democracy, 190face of (Mount Rushmore), 170-171foreign policy, 181, 184, 186Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1906),186Panama Canal treaty, 184-185presidential election (1912), 318“Rough Riders” in the Spanish-American War, 183“Square Deal,” 196as “trust-buster” and antitrust laws,160, 187, 196-197Root, Elihu, 181Rose, Ernestine, 122Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 266“Rosie the Riveter,” 222Royal Proclamation (England, 1763),53Rural Electrification Administration,218Russian Revolution (1917), 206, 259Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), 186SSadat, Anwar al-, 292Saddam Hussein, 316, 317, 329, 334-335San Martin, José de, 114Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 134Scopes, John, 209Scopes trial, 209-210Scott, Dred, 138Scott, Winfield, 135Seamen’s Act (1915), 199Second Treatise on Government(Locke), 32, 61Sectionalism, and slavery issue, 128-139Sedition Act, 82, 117Seminole Indians, 125Separation of church and state, 14Separation of powers principle, 74Separatists, 13Seven Years’ War, 33, 63, 83Seventh Day Adventists, 87Seward, William, 138, 182Seymour, Horatio, 152The Shame of the Cities (Steffens), 196Sharon, Ariel, 330Shays, Daniel, 70Shays’s Rebellion (1787), 70, 73Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), 160,187Sherman, Roger, 72, 73Sherman, William T., 146Silent Spring (Carson), 282Sinclair, Upton, 196Sioux Indians, 98, 180, 281Sitting Bull (Sioux chief), 98Slave family, 128-129Slave owners, 132Slave population, 132Slave trade, 19, 25, 133, 136SlaveryAfrican slaves, 19, 24constitutional amendment (13th)abolishing, 148Dred Scott decision, 138, 149Emancipation Proclamation, 144-145equal rights and, 69extension of, 113-114free vs. slave states, 114, 123Fugitive Slave Laws, 136, 137Indian slaves, 17-18Missouri Compromise (1820), 90,114, 132, 135, 137Northwest Ordinance ban on, 71,73, 113, 135as the “peculiar institution,” 132plantations in the south and, 113-114, 128-129revolt in Haiti, 83as a sectional conflict/dividednation, 128-139in the territories, 71, 73, 113, 135,136-138See also Abolition of slaverySmith, Capt. John, 6, 12, 36Smith-Lever Act (1914), 199Social activism, 87Social-contract (theory ofgovernment), 61Social liberalism, 34Social reforms, 121-122, 195-196Great Society programs, 286-287Medicaid program, 287Medicare program, 286mental health care, 121-122New Deal programs, 214-218prison reform, 121progressivism, 195prohibition and the temperancemovement, 121, 210Social Security, 218Truman Fair Deal programs, 268-269War on Poverty, 286welfare state and, 219Social Security Act (1935), 218, 230Socialist Party, 206, 318Society for the Promotion ofTemperance, 87, 121Soil Conservation Service, 216Somalia, 331Sons of Liberty, 54Soule, John, 124South Africa, racial apartheid, 312South Carolinacolonial government, 30during American Revolution, 63-64early settlements, 17, 26French Huguenots, 24nullification crisis, 117-118protective tariffs, 117secession from the Union, 142Southern Christian LeadershipConference (SCLC), 276Southern colonies, 26-27Southern Democrats, 139Soviet UnionCold War, 258-265Sputnik and the space program, 285U.S. containment doctrine, 261-263U.S. détente policy, 289, 291, 292U.S. relations, 284, 313-314Space program, 254, 274-275, 285Spain, and American Revolution, 63Spanish-American War (1898), 182,183Spanish explorationmissions in California, 169Seven Cities of Cibola and, 9St. Augustine (Florida), firstEuropean settlement, 9, 11, 169St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 24St. Mary’s (Maryland), 15Stalin, Joseph, at Yalta, 224, 234360361