Authors: Larry Schweikart,Michael Allen
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (199 page)
Office of War Management (OWM)
Of Plymouth Plantation
(Bradford)
Oglethorpe, James
Oil
Okinawa
Oklahoma City bombing
Olympia,
Omaha Beach
O’Neill, Bucky
O’Neill, Paul
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Ordinance of 1784
Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Oregon Trail
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Organized crime
ethnic groups of
spread of
Orr, James
Ortega, Daniel
Osama bin Laden.
See
Laden, Osama bin
Osborn, Danvers
Osceola
Ostend Manifesto
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Oswald, Richard
Otis, James
Ottoman Empire
Owen, Robert Dale
Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
Packenham, Richard
Packenham-Buchanan Treaty
Packet-steamer trade
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
Paige, Rod
Paine, Thomas
Palestine
Panama
isthmus of
revolution in
Panama Canal
acquisition of
construction of
France relating to
Pan American Exposition, in Buffalo
Panic of 1837
Panic of 1873
Panic of 1893
Panic of 1907
Parker, Alton B.
Parks, Rosa
Passaron, Patricio
Paterson, William
Patterson, Robert
Patton, George S.
Paxton Boys
Payne-Aldrich Bill
Payton, Phil
Pearl Harbor
bombing of
in Hawaii
Roosevelt, F.D. and
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Pendleton Plan
Penn, William
Pennsylvania
colony at
state constitution of
Pensions
Pentagon
Pentagon Papers
People’s History of the United States
People’s Republic of China.
See
China
Pepperrell, William
Pequot War
Perdue, Sally
Perfectionism
Perman, Michael
Perot, Ross
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Pershing, John
Pershing, John J.
Persian Gulf
Personal computer (PC).
See
Computer industry
Petition of Right
Philadelphia
capital at
trade in
Philadelphia Abolition Society
Philadelphia convention
Philadelphia Patriotic
Society
Philippines as American protectorate
independence of
Japanese occupation of
Jones Act relating to
McKinley and
war of
Phillips, Wendell
Pickett, George
Pierce, Franklin
in 1852 elections
background of
Pike, Zebulon
Pilgrims
at Plymouth
“The Pill,”
See also
Birth control
Pillsbury, Charles
Pinchot, Gifford
Pinckney, Charles C.
in 1808 election
Pinckney’s Treaty
Pinkerton, Allan
Pinkney, William
Pinta,
4
Pioneers
Pioneers, The
(Cooper)
Piracy, in Caribbean
Pitcairn, John
Pitt, William 5
Planned Parenthood
Pleasants, Henry
Plessy, Homer
Plessy v. Ferguson,
Plymouth, pilgrims at
Plymouth Company
Pocahontas
Poland, invasion of
Political parties.
See also specific political parties
Madison on
revolutionary and early national
Political skill, xiii
Polk, James K.
in 1844 election
foreign policy of
in Mexican-American War
Pontiac
Pony Express
Poor Richard’s Almanac
(Franklin)
Pope, John
Population
Populism
Porter, David
Porter, John
Portsmouth Treaty
Post office
Potsdam Proclamation
Powderly, Terence V.
Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr.
Powell, Colin
Powhatan
Pragmatism
(James)
Pragmatism, philosophy of
Prairie, The
(Cooper)
Prescott, William
Prevost, George
Primaries
Principles of Psychology
(James)
Principles of Scientific Management
(Taylor)
Proclamation Line of 1763
Proclamation of Neutrality
Procter & Gamble
Profiles in Courage
(Kennedy)
Progressive movement
Progressive party
Progressive reformers
educational policies
free markets relating to
government reform relating to
ideals of
income tax relating to
organized crime and
Progressive reformers
(cont.)
professionalism of politics relating to
prostitution problem and
secularist
social gospel relating to
as social scientists
technology relating to
temperance relating to
Welsh revival’s influence on
women’s suffrage relating to
WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) movement relating to
Progressives
agenda
journalists allied with
management techniques of
principles
Progressivism
of Roosevelt, T.
of Taft
of Wilson
Prohibition, xiv.
See also
Temperance
Prohibition Bureau
Property
Prostitution
Protective tariffs
Protestant Reformation
Protestant revolt
Protestants.
See also
Religion
Protests
Providence, RI
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Pulitzer, Joseph
Puritans
Harvard and
influx of
in Maryland
moral codes of
tolerance of
Putnam, Israel
Qaddafi, Muammar
Al Qaeda
Quaker Anti-Slavery Society
Quakers
Quartering Act
Quayle, Dan
Quebec Act
Queen Anne’s War
Quezon, Manuel
Quids (disaffected Republicans)
Quincy, Josiah
Quitman, John A.
Race relations
in Birmingham, AL
civil rights movement and
CORE working for
Eisenhower and
Evers working for
King working for
Ku Klux Klan and
in Little Rock, AR
in Los Angeles
Meredith and
in Montgomery, AL
Parks and
riots relating to
Roosevelt, T., and
“separate but equal”
Racism
slave trade and
Radical Republicans
Radio, growth of
Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Railroads
in Civil War
expansion of
slavery and
transcontinental
Rainbow Coalition
Raleigh, Walter
Rankin, Jeannette Pickering
Reading Railroad
Reagan, Ronald W.
and 1980 election
and 1984 election
assassination attempt on
economics of
foreign policies of
as president
Reaganomics of
Reaganophobia and
Soviet Union and
Rebellion, in Hawaii
Recession
during 1973–1987
during New Deal
Panic of 1837 and
Panic of 1873 and
Reconquista,
5
Reconstruction era
African Americans during
economic compensation during
economics during
failure of
first phase
law and order during
military during
politics during
racial attitudes during
second phase
third phase
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation (RFC)
Red Badge of Courage, The
(Crane)
Red Cloud
Red Cross
Redeemers
Red October Revolution
Reform.
See also
New Deal; Progressive reformers
of America’s banking system
of government
in Jacksonian era
secularist
