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Price, Richard,
26

Priestley, Dr. Joseph
129
,
164

Princeton University,
32
,
257
,
337
.,
567

prisons,
115
,
351
,
354
,
356
,
407
,
467

property, right of,
39-40
,
350
,
360
,
401
,
402
,
433
,
556
; and liberty,
25
,
26-7
,
45
,
226
,
228-9
,
263
,
268
; vs. people,
347
,
348
,
354
,
466
; and suffrage,
363-4
,
365

Prosser, Gabriel,
149-51

Protestants,
7-8
,
81
,
143
,
244
,
373
,
407
,
408
,
493
,
498
,
500
,
509
; evangelical,
492
,
494-7
,
507
;
see also individual denominations

Providence, R.I.,
220
,
292
,
302
,
365

Provoost, Samuel,
78

Prussia,
172
,
194
,
213
,
232

Pryor, Roger,
606

Public-Land Act (1800),
419

public lands,
344
,
543
; as campaign issue,
320
,
333
,
334
; speculation in,
93-5
: squatters on,
426
,
451
,
469
,
550

public opinion,
123
,
191
,
253
,
501
; and abolitionists,
519-22

Punch
,
537

Quakers (Friends),
24
,
78
,
111-17
passim
,
50
,
373
,
412
,
439
,
482

Quids,
see
Republican party:

Quids

Quincy, Mass.,
106
,
228
,
267
,
430

Quincy, Josiah,
338

radical movements,
359-62
,
365
,
383-4
,
412
,
414
,
502
,
535
,
589
;
see also
reform movements

railroads,
304
,
305
,
309
,
373
,
408
,
433
,
437
,
450
,
484
,
488
,
492
,
511
,
517
,
528
,
543
,
556
,
589
; in Civil War,
602
,
608
,
609-10
; development of,
431-3
,
436
; expansion of,
531-2
,
536
,
553
,
559
,
583
,
593
; Thoreau on,
484-5

Raleigh
Standard
,
573

Randall, James,
615

Randolph, Edmund,
29
,
30
,
34-5
,
38
,
42
,
53
,
54-5
,
71
,
78
,
88
,
103-4

Randolph, John,
143
,
186
,
203
,
205
,
209
,
236
,
256
,
258
,
259-60
,
267
,
270
,
324
,
337
,
364

Rantoul, Robert,
361

Rapine, Mary,
451

Rappites,
439-40

rebellion,
143
,
248-50
; assistance for,
253-4
; Jefferson on
19
,
162
; potential,
384
,
438
; right to,
20-1
,
252
;
see also
republic: opposition in

Red Jacket, Chief,
96-7

reform movements,
365
,
372
,
383-4
,
394
,
397-403
,
436
,
438-9
,
467
,
505-11
; failure of leadership in,
412-16
; lack of collaboration among,
414-16
; and literature,
481-92
; power in,
415-16
;
see also
abolitionists; radical movements

Regulators,
see
Shays’s Rebellion

religion,
143-4
,
409
,
476
,
492-501
; and education,
497-8
,
506
,
507-9
; freedom of,
7-8
,
24
,
55
,
69
,
89-90
,
113
,
130
,
441
,
479
,
493
,
500
,
599
; on frontier,
492-7
;
see also individual religions and denominations

Remington, Eliphalet,
534

Remini, Robert,
336

republic: checks and balances in,
17-18
,
34
,
118
,
120
,
134
,
260-1
,
262-3
,
272
,
372
,
625
; education in,
19
,
109
,
144
,
501-2
; experiments in government of,
21
,
25-7
,
28
,
33-4
,
63
,
67
,
133-4
,
140
,
164
,
254
,
260-1
,
311
,
597-8
; judgment of American,
140-4
,
197
,
237
,
261
; leadership in,
21
,
62-3
,
84-5
,
109
,
131
,
143
,
144
,
191
,
262-3
,
269
,
600
; military in,
215-16
; opposition in,
20-1
,
30
,
98-9
,
125-33
,
134-5
,
138-9
,
145
,
191-3
; power in,
118-19
,
225-6
,
262
; voting in,
20-1
,
60
;
see also
democracy; majority rule

Republican party,
557
,
580-1
,
599
,
620
; in Congress,
580
,
605
,
606
; convention and election of 1860,
593-7
,
600
; election of 1856,
559-62
; formation of,
549
,
553
; issues in,
593
,
595
,
605
; slavery issue in,
558
,
559
,
560-1
,
566
,
591
,
593-7
,
602
,
605
,
626

Republican party (Jeffersonian),
99
,
137
,
173
,
229-30
,
322
,
369
,
377
,
379
; Alien and Sedition Acts opposed by,
127-33
; in Congress,
122
,
123
,
136
,
145
,
161
,
164-5
,
169-72
,,
183
,
185-6
,
202
,
209
,
210
,
228
,
235-7
,
258
,
322
,
377
,
378
; in election of 1796,
107-9
,
378
; in election of 1800,
145-8
,
151-5
,
227
,
230
,
378
; in election of 1804,
183
,
227
,
378
; in election of 1808,
203-4
,
227
,
378
; in election of 1812,
210
,
227
,
378
; in election of 1816,
227
,
238-9
,
378
; in election of 1824,
264-8
,
378
; in election of 1828,
322-3
; in election of 1832,
331-6
; factions in,
145
,
154
,
166
,
185-6
,
190-1
,
202
,
205
,
236
,
254
,
258
,
266
,
322
,
334
,
377
; and foreign affairs,
101-4
,
121
,
123
,
125-6
,
177
,
200-1
,
205-6
; as majority,
164-5
,
169
,
183
,
184
,
188-9
,
190-2
,
229
,
230
,
243
,
262-3
; National,
323
,
331
,
333-6
,
340-1
,
347
,
380
,
420
; Quids,
205
,
208
,
258
,
259
; state,
183
,
190
,
210
,
265
,
371
,
377
; view of liberty in,
109
,
258
;
see also
Jefferson, Thomas: and Republican party; Whig party

Revere, Paul,
110

revivalists,
492
,
494-7
,
500

Rhett, Robert Barnwell,
565
,
601
,
613-14

Rhode Island,
27
,
31
,
52
,
92
,
134
,
216
,
231
,
466
,
506
; industry in,
288
,
291-2
,
293
; suffrage reform in,
364-5
,
392

rice,
274
,
328-9
,
450
,
567
,
568

Richmond, Va.,
53
,
197
,
260
; and Civil War,
608
,
609
,
621-2
; slave uprising in,
148-51

Richmond
Enquirer
,
260
,
515
,
605

Ripley, Ezra,
481

Ripley, Sophia Willard Dana,
438
,
443

Ritchie, Thomas,
260

Rittenhouse, David,
117

Rives, William Cabell,
345

roads,
8
,
141
,
220
,
236
,
240-1
,
276-7
,
286
,
299
,
305
,
309
,
315
,
331
,
450

Roane, Spencer,
260

Robinson, Donald,
40

Robinson, Frederick,
361

Rogin, Michael,
338

Roland, Charles,
613

Roosevelt, Isaac,
56

Roosevelt, Lydia (Mrs. Nicholas),
300

Roosevelt, Nicholas,
299-300

Ross, John,
453

Rossiter, Clinton,
32
,
40

Rousseau, Jean Jacques,
100

Royal Navy,
see
Great Britain

Rubin, Julius,
309

Ruffin, Edmund,
572
,
606-7
,
609

Rumsey, James,
277

rural areas,
409-10
,
526-7
; politics in,
47
,
597
,
614

Rush, Dr. Benjamin,
34
,
43
,
116
,
119
,
79

Rush, Richard,
246
,
249
,
269

Russell, Jonathan,
232-3

Russell, William,
618

Russia,
4
,
194
,
213
,
216
,
232
,
249-50
,
438
,
557
,
620

Rutledge, Edward,
43

Rutledge, John,
26
,
35
,
37-8
,
39

Sacagawea,
181-2

St. Clair, Gen. Arthur,
96

Saint Domingue,
176
; black uprising in,
49
,
173-4

St. Louis, Mo.,
178
,
180
,
182
,
352
,
499
,
514
,
518
,
617
; as port city,
302
,
532-3
,
535

St. Paul, Minn.,
302

Saint-Simon, Comte de,
443

Salem, Mass.,
75
,
219
,
221
,
222
,
338
,
488-9

Salem, N.C.,
289-90

Sanders, George,
536

San Felipe
Telegraph and Texas Register
,

San Francisco, Calif.,
244
,
471

San Martin, Jose de,
248

Santa Anna, Gen. Antonio Lopez de,
454-5
,
462
,
464

Santa Fe
Republican
,
515

Sault Ste. Marie Canal,
532

Savannah, Ga.,
277
,
388
,
390-1

Say, Thomas,
441

Schlesinger, Arthur,
343

Schmidt, Louis,
309-10

schools,
see
education

Schouler, William,
399

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