American Experiment (140 page)

Franklin, James,
24

Fraunces, Phoebe,
81

Fraunces, Samuel,
81

Fraunces’ Tavern, NYC,
77
,
81

Fredericksburg, Battle of,
626

Freedom, Pa.,
604

Free Enquirer, The;
415
,
517

Freehling, William,
333
,
567

Free Inquirer, The
,
360

Freeman, Elizabeth,
20

Free Soil movement (and party),
468-70
,
545
,
547-9
,
553
,
579
,
584
,
593

Frelinghuysen, Theodore,
452

Frémont, Jessie Benton (Mrs. John C),
560

Frémont, Capt. John C,
462
,
472
,
616
,
617
,
620
; in election of 1856,
559-62

French Revolution,
98
,
99-100
,
149
,
445
,
498
,
571
; American sympathy for,
99-101
,
126
,
137
,
253

Freneau, Philip,
8
,
1
,
90
,
93

Fries, John,
146

frontier, the,
7
,
93
,
94
,
95-6
,
395
,
410
,
416
,
421
,
449
,
450
,
507
; American character on,
207
,
317-18
,
477
; religion on,
492-7
;
see also
West, the

Fuller, Margaret,
483
,
487
,
516

Fulton, Robert,
170
,
277
,
296-301
,
308
,
311
,
431

Galena,
111
,
562
,
622

Gallatin, Albert,
127
,
145
,
166-7
,
177
,
200
,
202
,
205
,
232-4
,
236
,
268
,
304-5

Gallatin, James,
233-4

Gandhi. Mohandas K.,
486

Garrison, William Lloyd,
366
,
394
,
411-12
,
517
,
519-21

Gassendi. Pierre,
170

Gazette of the United States
,
80
,
90

Geddes, James,
303

Genêt, Edmond,
101-2
,
121

Genius of Universal Emancipation
(journal),
517

Genovese, Eugene,
387

George III, King of England,
40
,
194

Georgetown,
65
,
168
,
450

Georgia,
47
,
92
,
173
,
246
,
274
,
286
,
385
,
409
,
433
,
597
; Indians of,
452-3
; states’ rights in,
335
,
346
; Yazoo land fraud,
259-60

German immigrants,
80
,
113
,
289-90
,
405
,
439
,
450
,
547
,
549
,
555
,
622

Germany,
416
,
431

Gerry, Elbridge,
121-4
, and

Constitution,
31
,
35
,
38
,
42
,
43
,
49-51

Ghent, Treaty of,
231-5

Gibbons
v.
Ogden
(1824),
259
,
577

Giddings, Joshua,
595

Giles, William Branch.
185-6
,
258

Gilmer, Thomas W.,
424

Gladstone, William,
32

Godey’s Lady’s Book
,
517

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
478
,
481
,
490

gold,
see
California: gold rush in

Goldsmith, Oliver,
112

Gonzales, Tex.,
454

Goodyear, Charles,
534

Gorham, Nathaniel,
35

Gouge, William M.,
344

government: Adams on,
17-18
,
109
,
224-6
,
272
; Jackson on,
348
; Madison on,
29-30
,
45-6
;
see also
democracy; republic

grain products,
528
,
529-30

granite,
429-30

Grant, Ulysses S.,
462
,
464
,
617
,
621
,
623

Grayson, William,
53

Great Britain,
80
,
141
,
179
,
222
,
246
,
247
,
275
,
297
,
319
,
405
,
446
,
512
,
530
,
539
,
540
,
542
,
547
,
587
, American opinion of,
101-4
,
205-6
,
228
,
231
,
377
,
445
,
448
; American possessions of,
95
,
100
,
173-4
,
245
,
455
,
458-9
,
540
; attacks U.S. shipping,
102-3
,
291
; Canadian rebellion against,
446-7
; and Confederacy,
601
,
618-19
; France declares war on (1792),
99-102
,
125
; and Ghent treaty,
232-5
; and Holy Alliance,
249-50
; impressment of seamen by,
103
,
198-200
,
203-9
passim
,
228
,
233-4
; Indian allies of,
6
,
96
,
207
,
216
,
223-4
; and Monroe Doctrine,
251
; Royal Navy,
102
,
194-5
,
198
,
205
,
211
,
212-14
,
216
,
220-1
,
232
,
234
,
235
,
251
; and U.S.-Canadian boundary dispute,
7
,
103
,
235
,
447-8
; in War of 1812,
208-15
,
216-17
;
see also
Napoleonic wars

Great Lakes,
212-13
,
233
,
235
,
305
,
532
; region,
310
,
405
,
449-50

Greece,
248
,
250
,
254

Greeley, Horace,
421
,
433
,
443-4
,
487
,
515-17
,
530
,
609
,
612
; and slavery,
546-7
,
549
,
580-1
,
585
,
594-5
,
604
,
625

Green, Constance McLaughlin,
566

Green, Duff,
332

Greene, Catherine,
274
,
275
,
287

Greytown, Mosquito Coast.
540

Grier, Robert C„
575
,
577

Grimké, Angelina and Sarah,
412-13
,
521

Griswold, Roger,
138

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of,
464

Guerrière
, H.M.S.,
211

Guizot. Francois,
354

habeas corpus, Civil War suspension of,
613
,
615
,
619

Haiti,
360
,
367

Hale, John P.,
469-70

Hall, John,
289

Hallet, Benjamin,
519

Hamilton, Alexander,
19
,
21
,
23
,
36
,
68
,
69
,
72
,
77
,
81
,
122-7
passim
,
131
,
133
,
138
,
146
,
191
,
227
,
268
,
433
,
511
,
607
; duel of, with Burr,
192
,
193
,
196
; and election of 1796,
107-9
; election of 1800,
145
,
147
,
148
,
153-5
; and foreign affairs,
100-1
,
103
,
121
,
253
; and Jefferson,
90-1
,
101
; opposition to,
85-7
,
93
,
137
; as Secretary of Treasury,
71
,
79-80
,
84-9
;
90-1
,
97-8
,
168-9
; supports strong central government,
26
,
41
,
42
,
44-5
,
55-
S,
236
,
246
,
259

Hammond, James Henry,
572-4

Hampton, Wade,
608

Hampton Roads, Va.,
622

Hancock, John,
33
,
49
,
51
,
74
,
519

Handlin, Oscar,
174

Hare, Robert,
434

Harmony, Ind.,
439-40

Harper, Robert Goodloe,
259-60

Harper and Brothers,
588

Harpers Ferry, Va.,
179
,
289
,
590
,
609

Harper’s Weekly
,
605

Harrington, James,
368

Harris, B. F.,
528

Harris, Townsend,
542

Harrisburg, Pa.,
265-6
,
269

Harrison, Benjamin,
53

Harrison, William Henry,
207
,
212-13
,
341-2
,
437
,
622
; election and presidency of,
419-22
,
424
,
468

Hartford. Conn.,
31
,
73
,
218
,
220
,
222
,
351
; Federalist convention in,
217
,
218
,
224
,
231
,
261

Hartford and New Haven Railroad,
433

Hariz, Louis,
349
,
435

Harvard College,
32
,
74
,
218
,
221-4
,
240
,
255
,
257
,
271
,
338
,
351
,
436
,
477-8
,
480-1
,
483
,
486
,
519

Harvey, Charles T.,
532

Havana, Cuba,
244
,
538

Hawaii,
540-1

Hawkins, Hall,
389

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
223
,
347
,
487-90
,
491
,
517
,
534
,
588
;
Scarlet Letter, The
,
476
,
488-9

Hawthorne, Sophia (Mrs. Nathaniel),
489

Hayne, Robert Y
327-31
,
336-7
,
570

Hedge, Levi,
222

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
443

Helper, Hinton Rowan,
592

Henry, Patrick,
8
,
29
,
43
,
53-5
,
68
,
91
,
95
,
108
,
140
,
255

Henshaw, David,
374
,
376

Herald of Freedom
(newspaper),
551

Herndon, William,
555-6
,
558
,
561
,
580-1
,
603

Herrera, José Joaquin,
460

Hidalgo, Miguel,
248

Higginson, Stephen,
218

Hildreth, Richard,
522

Hill, Isaac,
326

Hilliard, H. W.,
472

history: causal agents in,
383-4
,
422
,
598
; on Jackson,
346-7
; original records in,
384
,
396
; stream of,
578

History of Paper Money and Banking
(Gouge),
344

Hobbes, Thomas,
28

Hoe printing press,
535

Holland,
99
,
172
,
174
,
175
,
176
,
447

Hollidaysburg Aurora
,
316

Holmes, Mary J.,
517

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
479
,
588

Holyoke, Mass.,
295

Hone, Philip,
475

Honolulu, Hawaii,
540

Hopkinson, Francis,
112

Horrocks and Johnson power loom,
292

Horseshoe Bend, Battle of,
217

Hough, Pvt. Daniel,
607

House of Representatives,
152-5
,
266-7
,
322
,
408
,
440
; election to,
36-7
,
61
,
68
,
364
,
381
; and foreign affairs,
103-4
,
123
;
see also
Congress

Houston, Sam,
454

Hudson River,
91
,
172
,
213
,
233
,
278
,
296-7
,
301-2
,
305
,
352
,
370
,
431-3