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Independent Gazetteer,
283

India, British forces in,
251–56
,
384n42

Indians and the American Revolution,
264–71
; American aggression against,
238
,
265–69
,
271
,
272–75
,
388n23
; Cherokee war for independence (in the South),
267–69
; Clark's campaign,
271–72
,
273–75
,
278
,
386n17
; colonists' views of,
183–84
,
267
; divisions between nations,
265
,
269
; and enslavement,
268–69
; Henry and,
183–84
; pan-Indian Confederacy,
269–71
,
276
; post-War,
266
,
269–71
,
275–78
; pro-British,
184
,
265–66
; resistance by,
184
,
265–71
,
276–77
; Sullivan campaign against the Iroquois,
265–66
,
272–75
,
388n23
,
389n36
; textbooks,
271
,
272–78
,
311–12
,
387n18
,
387n23
,
389n36
; and westward expansion,
183–84
,
264–65
,
269–78

Internet,
68–69
,
317–19
,
397nn12–13
; and Molly Pitcher legend,
68–69
,
317–18
,
347n54
; Samuel Adams quotations,
336n25

“Intolerable Acts,”
78

“Invalid Regiment,”
54

Irelan, John Robert,
143

Iroquois Indians,
238
,
265–66
,
272–75
,
386n6
,
388n23

Jackson, Andrew,
363n21

Jameson, John Franklin,
92
,
376n19

Jay, John,
141–42

Jefferson, Thomas,
122
,
123–39
,
157
,
158
,
296
; and Adams,
133–34
,
142
,
168
,
365n8
; and Declaration of Independence,
122
,
123–39
,
313
,
356n8
,
358n24
,
359n32
,
397n12
; on the Federal Convention,
142
; Lincoln and,
130–31
,
134–37
,
359n40
; notions of equality,
130
,
134–37
,
359nn40–41
,
394n2
; slave ownership,
134–37
,
359n41
,
373n3
; and slavery institution,
359n41
,
393–94n2
; and Virginia Declaration of Rights,
125–29
,
313
,
356n8
.
See also
Declaration of Independence

Jim Crow era,
211–12
,
375–76n19

John Adams
(McCullough),
167

Journal of American History,
64

Journal of Negro History,
213

Kammen, Michael,
343n26

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854),
136

Kennedy, David M.,
384n42

Kennedy, John F.,
179–80
,
368n9

Ketchum, Richard,
373n28

King, Boston,
221
,
378n45

King, Rufus,
153
,
363n20

King's Mountain,
229
,
231
,
234–35
,
237–38

Kirkland, Robert,
390n5

Kirkland, Samuel,
265

Knox, Henry,
158

Korea,
259

Lafayette, James Armistead,
221

Lafayette, Marquis de,
111
,
221

Land Ordinance of 1785,
275–77
,
388n31
.
See also
westward expansion

Landis, John B.,
64
,
65

Langguth, A. J.,
27
,
244
,
372n27

language and founding myths,
302–4
; “leaders,”
302–3
; “patriots,”
330n7
; “revolution,”
40
,
291–92
,
348n10

Larkin, John,
19

Laurens, Henry,
249

Laurens, John,
207
,
249

League of Armed Neutrality,
252

League of Six Nations,
265

Leckie, Robert,
237–38
,
372n27

Lee, Charles,
18–19
,
126

Lee, Henry “Lighthorse Harry,”
159

Lee, Richard Henry,
169
,
390n5

Lesher, John,
103

Leutze, Emanuel,
xii
,
3

Lexington, Battle of,
74
,
75–98
; and Massachusetts Revolution,
79–94
; and “shot heard ‘round the world,”
4
,
75–77
,
84
,
87
,
94–95
,
249
,
301

Lexington, Massachusetts,
394n3
; militia,
19
,
95–96
; and Paul Revere's ride,
11–12
,
14–15
,
16
,
18–25

Libby, Orin,
286

Liberty!
(companion volume to PBS series),
27
,
105
,
123–24
,
221
,
237

“liberty or death” speech of Patrick Henry,
4
,
131
,
175–81
,
186–87
,
296
; and feared slave uprisings,
181–84
; textbooks,
186–87
,
314
,
320
; Wirt's rendition,
177–81
,
289
,
314
,
367n2
,
370n24

Liberty
riot,
31
,
32–33
,
38–39

The Library of American Biography
(Sparks, ed.),
290

Life of George Washington
(Ramsay),
115–16

The Life of George Washington,
1804–1807 (Marshall),
284–85

Life of Washington
(Weems),
116
,
287–88

Lincoln, Abraham,
4
,
130–31
,
134–37
,
297
; debates with Douglas,
130
,
134
; and Jefferson's role in Declaration of Independence,
130–31
,
134–37
,
359n40

Lincoln-Douglas debates,
130
,
134

Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
(Goodrich),
159

Livingston, Philip,
282

Locke, John,
124–25
,
355n3

Long Room Club,
46
,
47

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: and abolitionism,
331n20
; and Paul Revere's ride,
4
,
9–11
,
15–25
,
331n28
,
395n2

Loring, Jonathan,
19

Lossing, Benjamin,
15
,
292
,
294
,
331n19
; and Molly Pitcher story,
54
,
343n26
; on slaves and patriotism,
210
; on Valley Forge winter,
117–18
;
Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution,
15
,
210
,
292

Loyal Nine,
34
,
45–46

Loyalists,
236–39
.
See also
brutality of the Revolution in the South
;
Tories

Ludlum, David,
107–9

Ludwig, Mary.
See
McCauley, Mary Ludwig Hays
;
Pitcher, Molly

Lynn, Massachusetts,
20
,
59

Lyon, E. B.,
22

Macmillan's “Famous Americans Series,”
52–53

Madison, James,
300–301
; and drafting of the Constitution,
300
,
303
,
394n5
; Federal Convention notes,
144
,
155
,
361n5
,
363n20
; as Founding Father,
157
,
158
,
300
,
303

“Maid of Saragossa,”
56–57
,
63

Maier, Pauline: on Samuel Adams,
36–38
,
337n30
; and local declarations of independence,
128
,
137
,
169
,
314

Malden, Massachusetts,
20
,
129

Marblehead, Massachusetts,
321–22

Marion, Francis (the “Swamp Fox”),
159
,
232
,
238
,
286
,
289

Marshall, John,
284–85
,
392n19
; and Bunker Hill,
198
; and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence,
132
,
358n23
; on Paul Revere's ride,
12–13
; and post-Yorktown War,
257
; U.S. Supreme Court,
284–85
; and Valley Forge winter,
114

Marston's tavern,
46
,
339n58

Martin, Joseph Plumb: and Army's hardships at Morristown,
109–10
; and Army's hardships at Valley Forge,
103–4
,
106–7
; on siege of Fort Mifflin,
193
; on women at Monmouth,
55
,
65
,
341n16

Martin, Luther,
146
,
147
,
151–52

Maryland: Continental Congress delegation,
169
; Federal Convention and slavery debate,
153
; local declaration of independence,
356n14

Mason, F. Van Wyck,
99

Mason, George: Federal Convention debates,
152
,
363n25
; and navigation laws,
363n25
; slave ownership and three-fifths compromise,
152
; Virginia Declaration of Rights,
124
,
126–28
,
130–31
,
313
,
359n40

Massachusetts: Federal Convention delegation and Great Compromise debates,
362n14
; “independency” movement,
37–38
,
85
; local declarations of independence,
125–26
,
128
,
313–14
.
See also
Massachusetts Revolution of 1774

Massachusetts Charter (1691),
85

Massachusetts Committee of Safety,
18–19
,
182–83
,
197–99
,
349n34

Massachusetts Government Act,
78–80
,
83
,
90–91
,
94
,
396n6

Massachusetts Historical Society,
13–14

Massachusetts House of Representatives,
32
,
47

Massachusetts Provincial Congress,
11–12
,
43
,
75–76
,
84–89
,
95
,
97
,
391n12
,
394n3
,
396n6

Massachusetts Revolution of 1774,
79–98
,
296
,
301
; Samuel Adams and,
85
,
89
,
91–92
,
350n42
; colonies' support for,
79
,
347n9
; democracy and collective decision making,
92–93
,
96
,
351n54
; historical neglect of,
89–92
; local declarations of independence,
125–29
,
130
,
137
,
169
,
313–14
; and mobilization before Battle of Lexington,
79–85
; responses to Coercive Acts,
79–85
,
90–91
,
94
,
396n6
; textbooks,
90–92
,
396n6

Matlack, Timothy,
108

McCalla, John,
62–63
,
344n33

McCauley, Mary Ludwig Hays,
51
,
61–70
,
317–18
,
344n33
,
345n42
,
346n48
.
See also
Pitcher, Molly

McCrady, Edward,
229

McCullough, David,
161
,
166–70

McGillivray, Alexander,
270
,
389n32

McKean, Thomas,
282
,
390n5

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