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Thames River, Battle of,
254

Thomas, Gov. George,
59

Thomas, Gen. George

Henry,
342

Thompson, Mayor William

Hale,
503n

Thoreau, Henry David,
285
,
297
,
309

Thorfinn, Karlsefni,
3

Three Counties
see
Delaware

Thurmond, Sen. Strom,
596

Tidewater,
145
,
176
,
182

Tilden, Samuel,
369
,
410

Tilden, William T., Jr,
491

Till, Emmett,
627

Tillage,
10
,
13

Tillman, Sen. Benjamin

Ryan (‘Pitchfork Ben’),
426
,
428

Timberline Lodge,
542

Time
magazine,
588
,
597
,
598

Times
,
The
,
324

Tippecanoe, Battle of,
254
,
276

Tito, Josip Broz,
604

Tobacco (
see also
Enumerated Products
),
26–7
,
28
,
29
,
82
,
84
,
103
,
106
,
108
,
199
,
226
,
287
,
380

and Parson’s case,
123–4

cigarettes,
616

in Depression,
617

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
74n
,
75
,
233
,
278
,
278n

Tojo, Gen.,
563
,
564

Tokyo fire–raids,
585

Toledo, Ohio,
464
,
540

Toleration, Act of,
91n

Tories, American
see
Loyalists

Tourism,
397

Town–meetings,
156
,
159
,
176

Towns
see
Cities and towns

Townshend, Charles,
141–4
,
146
,
157
,
303

Townshend laws

provisions of,
143

resistance to,
146–51

repeal,
151
,
153
,
161

Townships,
145
,
192

Trade,
10
,
13
,
75
,
198–9
,
438
,
442
; First World War, munitions,
469–70
; seaborne,
220
,
251
,
252
,
254
,
262
,
319
; world,
276
,
513
,
528–9

Trade, Board of,
79
,
83
,
85
,
90
,
90n
,
95
,
142

and 1763 Proclamation,
120

Trade, triangular,
101

Trade Agreement Act,
529

‘Trail of Tears’,
68
,
238
,
568

Transport (
see also
Steamboats
),
394

air,
268

rail
see
Railroads

road,
250
,
271
,
494

water,
75
,
271
,
290
,
507

Treasury, US,
278
,
359
,
429
,
430
,
463
,
493
,
577

Secretary of,
462
,
492

Tredegar Ironworks,
334

Trent
incident,
324
,
474

Trenton, New Jersey, Battle of,
180

Trial by jury,
103
,
144
,
161

Truman, Harry S. (Pres, 1945–53),
236n
,
491
,
541
,
569
,
582
,
591
,
592
,
594
,
602
,
605
,
606
,
607
,
613
,
647–8
,
650
,
667

and atomic bomb,
585–6

and blacks,
621
,
623
,
625

Fair Deal,
596

and China,
650

and 1948 election,
596

second term,
596–609

passim

quoted
,
590
,
602
,
603
,
609

Truman Doctrine,
592
,
594

Trusts, business (
see also
Anti-Trust
),
390

Tryon, Gov. William,
153

Tudor, house of,
30

Tugwell, Rexford,
537

Turkey, Turks (Ottoman),
5
,
592

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
393

Tuskegee Institute,
372

Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens),
383n

Tweed, William Marcy,
410

Tyler, John (Pres. 1841–5),
277
,
297

Ukraine, Ukrainians,
394

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
,
285
,
285n
,
293
,
300
,
332

Unemployment,
389
,
400
,
416
,
430
,
443
,
496
,
511
,
540
,
544
,
548
,
556
,
671
,
673
,
675n
,
683
,
687

u. benefits,
541

black u.,
639

in the Depression,
515
,
516
,
525
,
529
; statistics,
514

in 1933,
540
,

relief,
515
,
530
,
539–42
,
54

Union, the American (
see also
Albany Plan
),
202
,
243
,
279
,
294
,
299
,
300
,
301

‘U cause’, the,
414

in Civil War,
317–19

defence of,
315

economic aspects,
319

emergence of,
163–4
,
169
,
178

A. Jackson on,
275

A. Lincoln on,
337–8

the North and,
310
,
312

organization,
191–2
,
194
,
198

restored,
344
,
364

secession from
see
Secession

the South and,
306
,
307
,
308
,
310–11
,
318

support for,
186
,
188
,
195
,
200
,
264

threats to,
255
,
293
,
295–6

Union League,
361
,
367

Union Pacific Railroad,
384
,
387

Unions, labour
see
Labour unions

Unitarianism,
130n
,
291

United Automobile Workers,
595
,
634

United Fruit Co.,
610

United Mineworkers,
531

‘United Nations’ (1941–5),
576
,
624

United Nations Organization (UN),
576
,
581
,
585
,
597
–8,
605
,
625
,
652

charter,
652

Universal Negro Improvement Association,
619

Universities (
see also
Yale
, etc.),
657–9

Up-country
see
Back-country

Urban settlement houses,
448

Urbanization,
404
,
439
,
447
,
491
,
622

US Forest Service,
456

US Steel,
391
,
392
,
445
,
459
,
494
,
510
,
512

US
v.
Butler el al
.,
538

USSR
see
Soviet Union

Utah,
235
,
243
,
297
,
299
,
688n

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
235
,
243
,
297
,
299

Van Buren, Martin (Pres. 1837–41),
266
,
269
,
271–2
,
274
,
275–7
,
279
,
296
,
298

Van de Water, Frederic F.,
494

Vance, Cyrus,
680
,
683

Vance, Zebulon Baird,
335

Vandenberg, Sen. Arthur Hendrick,
593
,
594

Vanderbilt, ‘Commodore’ Cornelius,
387
,
411

Vanderbilt, William Henry,
453

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, and Sacco, Nicola,
497–8

Veracruz, Mexico,
468

Vergennes, Charles, Comte de,
180

Vermont,
118n
,
231
,
232
,
422n
,
500
,
545

Verrazano, Giovanni,
6–7

Versailles, chateâu of,
104
,
180

Versailles conference,
480
,
481–6

Versailles, treaty of (
see also
Reparations question
),
484
,
485
–8,
512
,
561
,
575

Vesey, Denmark,
284

Veterans

of the Revolutionary war,
259

of Civil War,
363
,
385
,
390
,
391

of First World War,
491
,
495
,
516
,
525

of Second World War,
588

Veterans Administration,
499
,
588

Vice–admiralty courts,
94
,
130
,
143
,
155

Vice–President of the United States,
145n
,
261
,
274
,
311

Vicksburg, seige of,
333
,
336
,
337

Victoria, Queen,
247
,
324

‘Viet Cong’ (National Liberation Front),
653–6
,
659
,
661

Vietnam (
see also
Indo-China
;
War, Vietnamese
),
647
,
648
,
650
,
665

North,
653

South,
649
,
650
,
652
,
653
,
654–62
passim
,
666
,
671

Vikings,
4
,
5

Villa, Pancho,
468

Villard, Henry,
423

Vinland,
4
,
395
,
397

V. Sagas
, 2

Virginia, Commonwealth of

colony
,
7
,
9
,
13
,
14–17
,
19–29
,
34
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
41n
,
51
,
52
,
64
,
79
,
84
,
101
,
103–8
,
109n
; in A. Revolution,
121
,
150
,
162
,
165
,
174
,
182
,
184–5

state
,
189
,
191
,
195
,
199
,
224
,
226
,
229
,
257
,
259
,
276
,
309
,
370
,
460
,
504
; and making of Constitution,
194
,
195
,
197
,
199
; ratification,
201
,
203
,
207–8
; and
slavery,
283
,
284
,
287
,
289
,
295
; and secession,
313
,
315–16
,
317
; in Civil War,
319
,
325–6
,
327
,
335
,
336
,
340
,
343–4