Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About®) (114 page)

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Goodwin children, 55

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 534, 539

Gordon-Reed, Annette, 151–52

Gore, Al, 447, 545–46, 568–75, 614, 624–25, 652, 664

Gorgas, Dr. William, 295

Gosnold, Bartholomew, 11, 26

Gould, Jay, 258, 268, 276–77

Granger, Gordon, 249

Granges, 279

Grant, Ulysses S., 190, 195, 227, 231–36, 239, 242–43, 250, 267–68, 271, 293, 338, 661

Grasse, Admiral de, 77, 90

Gray, L. Patrick, 503, 509

Great Awakening, 57–58, 120, 124

Great Depression, xiv, 262, 324, 340, 342, 344, 346–59, 361–62, 391, 393, 394, 512, 515, 618–20

Great Recession, xii, xxv, 618–19, 621, 625–27

Great Seal of the United States, 123, 126–27

Great Society, 463, 516

Greece, 347, 374, 402, 404

Greeley, Horace, 194, 219, 661

Greene, Nathanael, 71, 76, 86

Greenglass, David and Ruth, 409–10

Greenhow, Mrs. Rose, 209

Green Party, 569, 571, 573

Greenspan, Alan, 546, 556–58, 562–67, 617–18

Gregory, Dick, 485

Grenada, 524

Grew, Joseph, 367, 375

Grier, Robert, 211

Guam, 292, 359, 370, 376, 384, 385

Guantánamo, 591, 626, 627

Guatemala, 423, 450

Guevara, Che, 450

Guinier, Lani, 547

Gulf of Mexico oil spill, xiv

Gulf War, first, xii, xxi, 105, 540–42, 555, 592, 603.
See also
Iraq War

gun control, xxii, 132, 547–48, 630–31

Haig, Alexander, 474

Haiti, 145, 173, 302

Hakim, Albert, 525

Haldeman, H. R., 482, 503, 506–7, 510

Hale, Nathan, 72, 80

Hall, Prince, 124

Halleck, Henry W., 227, 235

Halperin, Mark, 624

Halsey, Adm. William, 380

Hamilton, Alexander, xxiii, 82, 86–87, 103, 115–16, 121, 127–30, 135–42, 145, 148–50, 257, 553, 637

Hamilton, Andrew, 58–59

Hamilton, Lee, 591

Hamlin, Hannibal, 661

Hancock, John, 67, 69–70, 81, 84, 96, 122

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 195, 662

Handler, Ruth, 437

Hanna, Mark, 281–82, 292, 294

Hanson, John, 112

Hanssen, Robert, 583–84

Harding, Warren G., 316, 323, 338–39, 662, 663

Harlan, John Marshall, 283

Harpers Ferry, 200, 216

Harris, Dr., 104

Harrison, Benjamin, 272, 280, 568, 654, 662

Harrison, William Henry, 154, 157, 175–76, 640, 660

Haun’s Mill Massacre, 181

Hauptmann, Bruno, 342

Hawaii, 287, 292, 365, 370, 375, 393

Hawkins, John, 29

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill, 348

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 183, 196

Hayes, Rutherford B., 271, 293, 640, 654, 661

Haymarket Square riot, 276–77

Hays, Mary McCauley, 89

Haywood, “Big Bill,” 301, 328

Hazard, Oliver, 157

health-care reform, 544, 548, 626–27

Hearst, William Randolph, 287–88, 351, 447

Hefner, Hugh, 438

Heilemann, John, 624

Hein, Piet, 37

Heller, Joseph, 443

Hemings, Eston, 151

Hemings, Sally, xiii, xxii, 150–52

Hemingway, Ernest, 310, 323

Henderson
decision, 426

Hendricks, Thomas A., 662

Henry, Patrick, 67, 69, 81–82, 113, 127

Henry VII, king of England, 10

Henry the Navigator, 6

Herjolfsson, Bjarni, 9

Hersey, John, 446–47, 454

Hersh, Seymour, 492, 611

Heyerdahl, Thor, 13

Hickok, James B. “Wild Bill,” 265

Hill, Anita, 544

Hill, Frances, 55, 56

Hill, Joe, 301

Hirohito, Emperor, 375

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 389, 395–98

Hispanics, 3, 588, 625, 626

Hispaniola, 4, 5, 15–16, 145

Hiss, Alger, 407–10

Hitler, Adolf, 14, 324, 342, 358, 360–64, 369, 371–72, 375–76, 379, 381, 385, 388, 390, 393–96, 569

Hobart, Garret, 662

Ho Chi Minh, 319, 468, 478

Hoffman, Abbie, 479

Hojeda, Alonso, 15, 17

Holmes, Larry, 490

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 407

Holmes, Steven, 619

Holocaust, 390, 393, 404, 511, 589, 590

Homestead Act, 246

Homestead steel strike, 270

Hood, John B., 236–38

Hooker, Joseph, 231, 232

Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 34

Hoover, Herbert, 324, 331, 343, 345, 347–52, 356, 361, 515, 663

Hoover, J. Edgar, xxii, 328–30, 409–10, 458, 461, 465, 494–96

Hopkins, Harry, 356

Hopkinson, Francis, 101

House, Edward M., 311

Houston, Sam, 178, 219

Howe, Robert, 74

Howe, Sir William, 71–74

Howells, William Dean, 300

Hudson, Henry, 21–22, 36

Hudson, John, 22

Hudson, Rock, 530–31

Hudson Bay Company, 22, 41

Huerta, Victoriano, 305

Hughes, Charles Evans, 313, 662

Huguenots, xiii, 19, 40, 84

Hull, Cordell, 375

Hull, William, 156

Humphrey, Hubert, 472, 477, 663

Hungary, 319, 390

Hunt, E. Howard, 451, 481, 498, 500–504, 508–10

Huron Indians, 39–41

Hussein, Saddam, 539–42, 603–8

Hutchinson, Anne, 34

Hutchinson, Thomas, 65, 67

Icelandic sagas, 9

Illinois, 163

immigration, 172, 188–89, 207, 222, 257–58, 266, 272, 274, 299, 327–30, 586, 598

Immigration and Nationalization Service, 576

impeachment, 118, 119, 523, 525; Clinton and, 509, 550–56; Johnson and, 249–50, 553; Nixon and, 504, 506–9, 553

impressment, 153–55, 159

Incas, 13, 18, 19

Indiana, 163

Indians, xxix, 588: arrival of, 11–14; colonies and, 31–32, 34–38, 40–44, 49–52, 56–57, 61–63; early nation and, 112, 116, 133; Europeans and, 4–5, 7–8, 10–11, 14–18, 21–28; land taken from, 275; legal rights for, 116, 248, 262–63; Lewis and Clark and, 146–48; massacres of, 146, 154–55, 157–58, 162, 167–71, 175, 258–63

Industrial Revolution, 160, 188, 257

Insull, Samuel, 344, 347

Interstate Commerce Commission, 271, 279, 297

Intolerable Acts, 68

Iowa, 613, 635, 655–56

Iran, xx, 422–24, 590, 602–3, 608; -Contra affair, 522–27, 533, 546; hostage crisis, 423–24, 444, 512–14, 517

Iraq, xii, xiv, xxvii, 319, 512, 523, 539–43, 592; War, 599, 601–11, 620, 623, 627.
See also
Gulf War, first

Iraq Study Group, 608

Irish, 9, 181, 188, 276, 308–10, 313

Iroquois Indians, 14, 40–41

Isabella, queen of Spain, 4, 15, 16

Islam: fundamentalists, 424, 513, 533, 584, 590–92, 596–97, 608; Shiite vs. Sunni, 608; Wahhabism, 596

isolationism, 308, 325, 340, 342, 360–61, 363–64, 366, 368, 374

Israel, 510–11, 513, 522, 541, 592

Italian immigrants, 3, 276

Italy, 10–11, 15, 317–18, 324, 327, 359, 362–66, 371–72, 374–76, 381–83, 404, 602, 604

Iwo Jima, 387–88

Jackson, Andrew, 138, 158–60, 164–72, 174–79, 192, 209, 211, 259, 304, 654, 659, 660

Jackson, Henry, 508

Jackson, James T., 225

Jackson, Rachel Robards, 166

Jackson, “Stonewall,” 226–28, 232, 242

Jackson State killings, 479

Jamaica, 16, 18

James, Jesse, 234, 265

James I, king of England, 23

Jamestown, xii–xiii, xxi, 17, 20, 23–29, 45

Japan, 7, 205, 298, 311, 317, 435, 511, 512, 534; WW II and, 359–62, 364–70, 374–98, 416, 447, 468

Japanese-Americans, internment of, 376, 393, 426, 589

Jarvis, Gregory B., 518

Jaworski, Leon, 504, 505

Jay, John, 69, 103, 128, 129, 135

Jefferson, Maria, 151

Jefferson, Martha Wayles Skelton, 151

Jefferson, Thomas, xiii, xxii, xxvii, 49, 67, 69, 78, 82, 93, 96–97, 110–11, 113, 120, 124–26, 128, 135–39, 141–55, 162–64, 167, 187, 189, 654, 658, 659

Jemmy (slave revolt leader), 173

Jesuit missionaries, 19, 41, 57, 63

Jewell, Richard, 581–82

Jews, 8, 14, 231, 329, 341, 342, 510–11, 569; WW II and, 362–63, 381, 390, 393, 404

Jim Crow, 283–85, 295, 304, 432

Jimenez de Quesada, Gonzalo, 18

John Paul II, Pope, 535

Johnson, Andrew, 239, 240, 243, 246–47, 249–50, 271, 550, 553, 661

Johnson, Eliza, 246

Johnson, Lyndon B., 264, 447, 458, 460–61, 463–64, 466–47, 470–77, 497, 505, 624, 626, 647, 656, 663

Johnson, Magic, 531

Johnson, Richard M., 660

Johnson, Samuel, 152

Johnston, Albert S., 227

Johnston, Joseph E., 225, 232, 236, 239

Jolliet, Louis, 41–43

Jolson, Al, 324

Jones, Christopher, 29

Jones, Jennifer, 531

Jones, Jim, 579

Jones, John Paul, 73–75, 87

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother,” 301

Jones, Paula Corbin, 551, 554

Jones, Thomas K., 517

Jordan, Michael, 406

Joseph, Chief, 260

Josephson, Matthew, 266

Judiciary Act, 144

Juneteenth, 249

Kaczynski, Ted, 581

Kagan, Elena, 626

Kansas, “Bloody” wars, 207–9, 234

Kaplan, Lewis A., 627

Karlsefni, Thorfinn, 9

Karzai, Hamid, 598, 600, 601

Katrina, Hurricane, xii, xiv, 595, 615–18, 620

Kaufman, Irving R., 410

Kean, Thomas, 591

Kearney, Stephen Watts, 192

Keller, Helen, 301, 320

Kennan, George F., xxi, 403

Kennedy, Anthony, 573

Kennedy, Edward, 626

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 447, 460, 462

Kennedy, John F., 394, 435–36, 443–54, 455, 464, 466, 470, 484, 496, 505, 508, 515, 551, 568, 647, 663; assassination, 459–63, 470, 484

Kennedy, Joseph P., 344, 354, 446–47

Kennedy, Randall, 406

Kennedy, Robert F., 446, 448, 452, 465, 476, 477, 656

Kennewick man, 12

Kent State killings, 479

Kentucky, 85, 163, 221, 231

Kerensky, Aleksandr, 314, 316

Kerouac, Jack, 402

Kerry, John, 608, 613, 625, 664

Key, Francis Scott, 159

Khadaffy, Muammar, 522

Khanh, General Nguyen, 471

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 424, 513, 524

Khrushchev, Nikita, 445, 452–53

Kimmel, Admiral, 376

King, Coretta Scott, 446, 478

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 196, 429–30, 446, 457–58, 465–66, 477, 478, 483–84, 486; assassination of, 477, 485, 489

King, Martin Luther, Sr., 446

King, Rodney, 544, 588

King, Rufus, 659

King, William R., 659

King George’s War, 61

King Philip’s War, 36, 49–51

King William’s War, 61

Kissinger, Henry, 479, 480–82, 496–97, 563

Kleindienst, Richard, 505–6

Knapp, Elizabeth, 55

Knights of Labor, 276–77, 279

Know-Nothings, 207–9

Knox, Henry “Ox,” xvii, 87–88, 135

Kohl, Helmut, 534

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