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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
Kansas Free State
(newspaper),
551
Kansas-Nebraska act,
543-52
passim
,
582
,
599
,
607
Kant, Immanuel,
481
Kearny, Gen. Stephen W.,
461-2
Kendall, Amos,
325-6
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339
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346
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348
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375-6
Kent, James,
364
Kentucky,
94
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96
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131
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175
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208
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315
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331
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468
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495
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496
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529-30
,
573
,
601
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608
,
620
; economic problems in,
241
,
374-6
; politics in,
173
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267
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336
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374-6
,
380
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604
Kentucky Gazette
(newspaper),
131
Kentucky resolution,
131-3
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134
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139
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145
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162
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261
Kerber, Linda,
58
Key, Francis Scott,
215
King, Rufus,
19
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35
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39
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79
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203
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227
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239
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243
Kirtland, Ohio,
499
Know-Nothing (American) party,
499
,
547-9
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553-4
,
557
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558
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599
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603
; split in,
559-62
Knox, Henry,
13
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16
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35
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71
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72
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77-8
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124
Kraditor, Aileen,
521
Labadists,
439
labor: child,
89
,
288
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293
,
439
,
503
; class structure in,
114
,
115
; craft traditions and unions,
120
,
289-90
,
358
,
414
; immigrant,
405-6
,
408-9
; industrial,
75
,
89
,
287-95
,
489
,
494
,
503
,
510
,
574
,
597
; and politics.
358-9
,
361
,
373
,
503
; radical movements for,
360-1
,
502
,
535
; strikes and boycotts by,
358
,
398-9
,
406
,
589
; trade unions,
358-9
,
498
; unemployment,
344
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406
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446
,
589
; working conditions,
358
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381
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395-400
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406
,
535
;
see also
women: in labor force; working class
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul, Marquis de,
40-1
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99
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251
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255
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360
,
414
La Fortuna
(slave ship),
384-5
Lake Erie,
212-13
,
303-5
,
450
,
532
Lamb, Gen. John,
56
Lamb, Robert K.,
307
Lane Seminary, Cincinnati,
500
Larkin, Thomas O.,
455-6
Laurens, Henry,
43
law, profession of,
436
Lawrence, Mass.,
295
Lawrence
, U.S.S.,
212
Lawrence, Abbott,
437
Lawrence Company,
399
leadership: and democracy,
357-8
; and economic change,
305-11
,
429-33
; grass-roots,
264
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309
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310
; political,
137
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311
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358
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369
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373
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376-7
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379
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380
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428
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554
; and rebellion,
384
; in republic,
21
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62-3
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84-5
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109
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131
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143
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144
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191
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262-3
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269
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600
; and war,
216
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614
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see also
Framers of Constitution
Lear, Tobias,
70
Leavis, Q. D.,
491
Lee, Henry,
53-4
Lee, Robert E.,
463
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464
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590
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608
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614
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622
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624
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626
legislative branch,
36
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168
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226
; andjudicial review,
187-9
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193
;
see also
Congress, U.S.
L’Enfant, Pierre,
168
Lenox, Mass.,
489
Leopard
, H.M.S.,
199
Lerner, Max,
485
Letcher, Robert P.,
267
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
(Dickinson),
35
Lewis, Meriwether,
168
,
178-83
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190
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458
Lewis and Clark expedition,
178-83
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190
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458
Lexington, Mass.,
75-6
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199
,
482
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505
Liberator
(Garrison),
366
,
394
,
517
Liberia,
366
liberty: belief in,
7
,
15
,
21
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23-7
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33-4
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62
,
142
,
411
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416
,
548
,
624-5
; and Bill of Rights,
89-90
; culture of,
476-522
; and equality,
25
,
143
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226
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228-9
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258
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263
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272
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347-8
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491
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500
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520
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571-3
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575
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587
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593
; and factionalism,
29-30
,
45
,
54
,
60-1
; and general welfare,
115-16
; and government,
62
,
263
,
491
; and Indian policy,
453
; and individualism,
485-7
,
489-92
; and Jacksonian democracy,
347-8
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350
; linkage with other values,
26
,
33
,
130-1
; and “manifest destiny,”
457
,
537
; and national security,
253-4
; negative brand of,
263
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613
; and order,
16
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19
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26-7
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34
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98-9
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109
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128-9
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130
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228
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350
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494
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597
; and political parties,
372
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379
; and property rights,
25
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26-7
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45
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131
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226
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228-9
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263
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268
; protection of, through institutions,
34
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45
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59
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60
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209
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263
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268
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437
; and public education,
502
; in 1770s, as issue,
117
; and slavery,
25
,
40
,
148-51
,
263
,
366
,
387
,
510
,
520
,
572-3
,
587
; threats to,
33-4
,
125-33
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141
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215
Liberty party,
467-7
·
521
,
545
,
553
libraries,
22
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110
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115
,
396
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476
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482
Lincoln, Abraham,
301
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411
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496
,
555-6
; on black equal rights,
584-7
; debates with Douglas,
557
,
581-7
,
594
; in election of 1860,
594-7
,
600-1
; Emancipation Proclamation,
625-8
; habeas corpus suspended by,
615
,
619
; and preservation of Union,
604-5
,
625
; presidency of,
603-8
,
612
,
614-20
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622
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624-7
; and Republican party,
561-2
,
581-7
,
605
; and slavery issue,
556-9
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586-7
,
590
,
620
,
624
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625
Lincoln, Gen. Benjamin,
71
Lincoln, Mary Todd (Mrs. Abraham),
555
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603
,
608
literature,
112
,
451
,
517
,
534
,
588
; of New England,
476-91
Little Turtle, Chief,
96-7
Livingston, Edward,
332
Livingston, Peter,
333
Livingston, Robert R.,
56
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66
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153
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174-7
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192
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195
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277-8
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284
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286
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296-9
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301
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306-8
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310
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431
Livingston family,
81
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278
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296
,
297
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370
local government,
74
,
91
,
439
,
504
,
514
; and Alien and Sedition Acts,
131-3
; and ratification of Constitution,
46-58
Log Cabin
(campaign journal),
421
London, England,
400
,
535
,
536
,
539
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
223
,
545
;
Hiawatha
,
588
Longstreet, James,
464
Louis XVI, King of France,
100
Louisiana,
244
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267
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282
,
364
,
597
,
608
Louisiana Purchase,
174-8
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189
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207
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230
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242
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245
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299
Louisiana Territory,
172-5
Louis Philippe, King of France,
416
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467
Louisville, Ky.,
180
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300
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302
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375
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450
,
499
,
515
Louisville
Courier-Journal
,
612
Louisville
Journal
,
515
Lowell, Mass.,
295
,
307
,
351
,
395-400
Lowell, Francis Cabot,
276
,
291-6
,
306-7
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310-11
,
437
Lowell, James Russell,
486
,
521-2
,
588
;
Bigelow Papers, The
,
522
Lowell, John,
307
Lowell and Moody’s power
loom,
292
Lowell
Courier
,
399
Lowell Female
Labor Reform Association
Lowell Offering
,
396-7
lower class,
221
,
407-10
; in cities,
79
,
355
,
405
,
509-10
; education of,
111
,
115
,
407
,
504
,
506
,
507
,
509-11
; and inegalitarianism,
357
,
358
,
359
,
383-4
; and newspapers,
512
,
515
,
516-17
; poor whites,
409-10
,
507
,
530
,
591
,
592
; voting by,
382
,
409-10
;
see also
poverty
Lucretius,
170
Lundy, Benjamin,
517