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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYStamp Act (England), 54, 55Standard Oil Company, 158, 196, 197Stanton, Edwin, 153State constitutions, 68-69Statehood, 78States’ rights, 79, 80nullification doctrine, 83, 117-118States Rights Party, 272Statue of Liberty (New York City), 167,201Steel industry. See Iron and steelindustrySteel Workers Organizing Committee(SWOC), 228Steffens, Lincoln, 196Steinem, Gloria, 248, 279Steuben, Friedrich von, 65Stevens, Thaddeus, 148Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 137Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee (SNCC), 276Sugar Act (England, 1764), 53, 55Sunday, Billy, 209Supreme Court Building (Wash.,D.C.), 166Supreme Court, U.S.casesBrown v. Board of Education,241, 244, 272Marbury v. Madison, 113McCulloch v. Maryland, 113Plessy v. Ferguson, 178, 272Roe v. Wade, 279, 308, 324decisions, 113Court’s right of judicial review,49Dred Scott, 138, 149enlargement proposal, 218-219See also Marshall, John; Marshall,ThurgoodSwedish colonization, 15, 200Swift, Gustavus, 158TTaft, William Howard, 197-198, 318Taiwan, 263, 265, 289Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 82Tarbell, Ida M., 196TaxationBoston Tea Party (1773), 50-51, 57British right to tax colonies(Declaratory Act), 55colonial period, 33, 53-59Committees of Correspondence,56-57“without representation,” 53, 54-55See also names of individual actsTaylor, Zachary, 135Technology. See InventionsTelevisionCable News Network (CNN), 297growth of, 268impact of, 268, 297MTV, 297programming, 239, 268Temperance movement, 87, 121Tennessee, statehood (1796), 78Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 215Tenure of Office Act, 149Terrorismanthrax poisoning scare, 333-334Cole (U.S. Navy destroyer) bombing(Yemen), 332Khobar Towers U.S. militaryhousing (Saudi Arabia, 1996), 331Oklahoma City bombing (1995),326, 331Palestinian suicide bombings, 330September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S.,320-321, 333U.S. embassies (Kenya andTanzania, 1998), 331-332World Trade Center bombings(1993), 331TexasAlamo, battle of, 134Battle of San Jacinto, 134territory of, 134and War with Mexico, 134-135Textile industry strikes, 195Thorpe, Jim, 181Thurmond, Strom, 272, 319The Titan (Dreiser), 196To Secure These Rights, 271-272Tocqueville, Alexis de, 126, 130Tojo, Hideki, 221, 225Toleration Act (England, 1689), 31Toleration Act (Maryland), 17Townsend, Francis E., 217Townshend Acts (England), 55-56Townshend, Charles, 55Trade policy. See U.S. trade policyTransportation Act (1920), 208Treaties. See under name of individualtreatyTruman Doctrine, 261Truman, Harry Saccession to the presidency, 224civil rights program, 271-272Fair Deal domestic program, 268-269Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomicbomb attacks, 226labor unions and, 269NSC-68 defense policy, 262, 265as president of U.S., 258, 260presidential election (1948), 235,269Trusts, 158Tubman, Harriet, 91Turner, Frederick Jackson, 126Twain, Mark. See Clemens, SamuelLanghorneTyler, John, 120UUncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 137Underground Railroad, 91, 134, 136Union Army of the Potomac, 145Union Pacific Railroad, 179United Auto Workers, 228United Mine Workers (UMW), 227-228United Nations, 224, 226United States Steel Corporation, 157-158, 187U.S. economyin the 1980s, 309-311in the 1990s, 327-328“Black Monday” (stock marketcrash, 1987), 311federal budget deficits, 310-311, 315migration patterns in U.S., 267post-World War II period, 267-268stock market crash (1929), 211suburban development and, 268“supply side” economics, 309unemployment, 215-216, 227, 327See also Banking and finance; GreatDepressionU.S. foreign policy, 80-82, 181-186in Asia, 185-186Bush (George W.) Administration,332-337Clinton Administration, 328-331Cold War and, 258-267imperialism and “ManifestDestiny,” 181-182Iran-Contra affair, 312-313isolationism, 78, 206, 220Jay Treaty with Britain, 81in Latin America, 185Monroe Doctrine, 115-116Open Door policy, 186, 195in the Pacific area, 183-184Panama Canal treaty, 184-185Reagan Administration, 313-314Truman Doctrine of containment,261-263362363