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‘Reaganomics’,
686

Reconstruction, post-Civil

War,
337
,
346–73
,
504
,
620
,
630
,
632
,
635
,
655

congressional,
353

economic,
357

governments,
363
,
368–9
,
410

radical,
357
,
409

Red Army,
692

Red Cloud,
51
,
247

Red Cross,
515

Red Scare,
488
,
496
,
497
,
591
,
601

Redeemers,
368–71
,
426

Reed, Speaker Thomas (‘Czar’),
quoted
,
377

Reformation, Protestant,
8
,
50
,
177

Regents of the University of California
v.
Bakke
,
676

Regulators

in North Carolina,
153
,
223

post-bellum South,
367

Reid, Whitelaw,
346

Religious fundamentalism,
694

Religious liberty,
49
,
91
,
93–4
,
192

Remington, Frederic,
440

Reparations question,
486
,
499
,
507-8
,
512
,
590

Representation, political,
45
,
146

in
13
colonies,
144

‘virtual r.’,
116

Representatives, House of
see
House of Representatives

Republican party, Jeffersonian (
see also
Democratic party
),
260
,
261
,
263
,
267
,
269
,
274

Republican party (
see also
Elections
),
243
,
266
,
312
,
408–9
,
449
,
537
,
659–60
,
672
,
683
,
684
,
685
,
688
,
690

founded,
303

rise of,
304–11

in Civil War,
326
,
328
,
332
,
339

and A. Johnson,
347
,
349
,
353–6

and Reconstruction,
353
,
357
,
359–61
passim

and capitalism,
384
,
410
,
412

in Progressive era,
9
,
448
,
453
,
454
,
455–9

and Versailles treaty
483
,
486–8
; 1920–33,
488–9
,
491
,
492
,
495
,
499
>
500
,
504
,
509
,
512–13
,
514
,
517

and New Deal,
528
,
544–5
,
546
,
549

and Second World War,
559
,
569

and cold war,
593
,
597–8

and 1948 election,
595

and McCarthyism,
599
,
609

and blacks,
620
,
625–6
,
630

and Vietnam War,
650
,
662

Republicans, Liberal,
369
,
412

Requisitions,
192

Reserve Officers Training Corps,
659

Restraining Act,
164

Reuther, Walter,
595
,
634

Revels, Sen. Hiram,
360

Revolution, American,
25
,
27
,
40
,
50
,
51
,
66
,
71–215
,
220
,
251
,
252
,
254
,
272
,
273
,
275
,
280
,
288
,
290
,
294
,
312
,
331
,
377
,
406
,
414
,
425
,
437
,
470
,
639

leadership of,
256

Revolution, Cromwellian,
133

Revolution, Emancipation,
331
,
364
,
372

Revolution, French,
75
,
78
,
126
,
127
,
169
,
183n
,
250

Revolution, Glorious,
77
,
88
,
116
,
129
,
133

Revolution, Industrial,
50
,
77
,
229
,
269
,
378–82
,
394
,
395
,
409
,
416
,
624

Revolution, Russian
see
Russia

Revolutions, of 1848,
395

Rhee, Syngman,
605
,
651

Rhode Island

colony
,
45
,
49
,
52
,
92
,
161n
; in A. Revolution,
121
,
147
,
155
,
179
; mob in,
126

state
,
189
,
194
,
200
,
206
,
208
,
230

Rice,
103
,
108
,
199

Richmond, Virginia,
24
,
182
,
319
,
326
,
334
,
335
,
336
,
343–4

Ridgway, Gen. Matthew B.,
607

Rights (
see also
Bill of Rights
;
Civil rights
;
States’ rights
)

right of petition,
296

r. of Englishmen,
116
,
131
,
211

individual r.,
243

R. of Man,
106
,
176
,
211

natural r.,
129

right of revolution,
213n

Rio Grande,
55
,
56n
,
297

Riots (
see also
Crowds
),
201
,
273

Agrarian,
136

in A. Revolution,
149

anti-slavery,
304

anti-Stamp,
129–31

black,
334
,
639
,
644

draft,
323
,
334
,
337
,
639

in England,
113
,
129

labour r.,
417–18

police r.,
419
,
660

press-r.,
127
,
128–9

race,
352
,
404
,
478
,
488
,
619
,
620
,
625
,
632–3

Roanoke island, N. Carolina,
7
,
11
,
20
,
24
,
26

Roberts, Mr Justice Owen J.,
548

Robinson, Pastor John,
34
,
36

Robinson, Sen. Joseph Taylor,
618

Rochambeau, Gen. Jean-Baptiste, Comte de,
184–5

Rockefeller, John Davison,
385
,
388
,
390
,
391
,
392
,
410
,
420
,
453
,
455

Rockefeller, Vice-Pres. Nelson Aldrich,
612

Rockingham, Charles, Marquis of, and Rockinghamites,
132
,
141
,
150
,
158
,
185

first administration,
132–4
,
140

second,
185

Rocky mountains,
187
,
220
,
237
,
241
,
248
,
301

Rodgers, Richard, and Hart, Lorenz,
491

Rodney, Admiral George,
168
,
185

Roe
v.
Wade
decision,
678
,
679

Rolfe, John,
17
,
27

Roman Catholic church,
6
, l62n,
418
,
441
,
581

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
522
,
523
,
525
,
549
,
569
,
621
,
623

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (Pres. 1933–45),
210
,
212
,
489
,
503
,
517–81
passim
,
594
,
598
,
601
,
602
,
618
,
630
,
634–5
,
645
,
667
,
670
,
684
,
685
,
690

character,
523
,
527

early life,
522–3

TERA,
523

Hundred Days,
527
,
550

and tariff,
464

and blacks,
620
,
624
,
625
,
632

Schacht on,
529

Second Hundred Days,
541

popularity of,
544–5
,
548

and Supreme Court,
546–8
,
624

‘R. depression’,
549

foreign policy,
552–65

third Presl. candidacy,
559

the Four Freedoms,
560
,
576

as Commander-in-Chief,
569
, 520–23

and postwar settlement,
575–82

‘The Four Policemen’,
575
,
577

and Indo-China,
647

death,
581

quoted
: ‘new deal’ pledge,
517
; First Inaugural,
521–2
,
524
; on ending child labour,
532
; on social security taxes,
541
; acceptance speech,
545
; Charlottesville address,
551
; ‘I hate war’,
552
; ‘foreign wars’ pledge
559
; ‘no more aggression’ promise,
576–7
;
also quoted
,
556
,
560
,
565
,
566
,
620

Roosevelt, Theodore (Pres. 1901–9),
209
,
433
,
440
,
441–2
,
444
,
449–58
,
459
,
460
,
462
,
463
,
465
,
468
,
471
,
482
,
483
,
489
,
522
,
550
,
552
,
553
,
596
,
647
,
689

quoted
, on Henry James,
449n
; on C. E. Hughes,
495
;
also quoted
,
435

Roosevelt corollary,
452

Root, Elihu,
483

Ross, Harold,
490

Rotation of office,
268

Rough Riders,
247
,
440

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
60
,
177
,
180

Rovere, Richard H.,
599

Rowe, John,
159

Ruckelshaus, William,
689

Rum,
89
,
92
,
100
,
105
,
114
,
124
,
129
,
190

Rural America (
see also
Back-country
),
108
,
432
,
465
,
503
,
504
,
535–6
,
567

Rush, Benjamin,
179
,
204

Rusk, Dean,
602
,
651

Russell, Anna,
232n

Russell, William Howard,
324

Russia (
see also
Soviet Union
),
100
,
140–41
,
254n
,
255
,
394
,
395
,
399
,
403
,
455
,
488
,
572

in First World War,
470
,
474

revolution,
475
,
478

Bolsheviks,
478
,
484
,
485
,
516

anti-Bolshevik

intervention,
484

Rustbelt,
672
,
687

Rustin, Bayard,
629

Ruth, George Herman (‘Babe’),
491

Sacramento river,
298

Sadat, Anwar,
674

Sagadahoc, Maine,
18
,
20

Saigon,
651
,
659
,
671

Sailors, in A. Revolution,
127–9
,
159

St George’s Fields massacre,
154

St Lawrence, Gulf of,
7

St Lawrence river,
8
,
57

St Louis, Missouri,
108
,
355
,
380
,
400

Salem, Mass.,
41
,
47

witch-hunt,
91
,
103

Salt Lake City, Utah,
241
,
243
,
244

San Francisco, Calif.,
469n
,
499
,
508
,
511
,
581
,
624
,
658
,
676

San Jacinto, Battle of,
440

San Juan Hill, Battle of,
440

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