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Authors: James MacGregor Burns
Schuyler, Robert,
432-3
Scott, Dred,
575-8
Scott, Gen. Winfield,
213
,
426
,
446
,
461-4
,
469
,
475
,
525
,
608
secession,
140
,
201
,
217
,
261
,
328
,
598-602
,
605
; and election of 1860,
592-3
,
596-7
; and Essex Junto,
230
; and Kentucky and Virginia resolutions,
131-2
,
134
,
139
,
145
; and ratification of Constitution,
56
,
57
; and slavery issue,
261
,
329
,
473
,
591
sectionalism,
8
; economic,
86
,
270
,
589
,
598
; and foreign affairs,
103-5
,
209
; leaders in,
331
,
565
,
570
; political,
86
,
104
,
108
,
127
,
135
,
320
,
426
,
427
,
466
,
468-71
,
598-600
; and slavery issue,
242-3
,
329
,
333
,
346
,
348-9
,
459
,
464-75
,
540
,
544-54
,
570
,
574-8
,
591-7
,
599
,
602
; Webster-Hayne debate on,
327-30
Sedgwick, Theodore,
20
,
49
,
231
,
360
Sedition Act (1798),
126-33
,
138
,
139
,
141
;
see also
Alien and Sedition Acts
Seixas, Rabbi Gershom Mendes,
78
,
81
Seminole Indians,
6
,
245-6
,
247
,
332
,
452
Senate: election to,
36-7
,
61
,
68
,
362
,
381
; filibuster in,
466
; Jackson censured by,
340
,
346
,
423
; treaty ratifications in,
104
,
177
,
235
,
248
,
459
; Webster-Hayne debate in,
327-30
,
337
;
see also
Congress, U.S.
Seneca Chief
(canal boat),
303-4
Seneca Falls Convention,
401-2
,
413-14
separation of powers,
120
,
216
; in Constitution,
36
,
45
,
61
,
63
,
120
,
134-5
,
168
,
261-2
,
368-9
,
381
,
598
Sequoyah,
453
Seward, William H.,
334
,
342
,
433
,
509
,
537
,
550
,
554
,
565
,
591
,
593-6
; as Secretary of State,
604
,
618
,
625-7
Shattuck, Job,
14
Shaw, Lemuel,
436
Shays, Daniel,
14
,
19-20
,
51
,
61
,
185
,
360
,
365
Shays’s Rebellion,
13-15
,
19-20
,
25
,
27
,
33
,
50-1
,
61
,
185
,
360
,
365
; reactions to,
15-19
,
97-8
Shepard, Gen. William,
19
Sherman, John,
607
Shiloh Church, Battle of,
621
,
623
shipbuilding,
75
Shippen, Dr. William, Jr.,
111
,
113
Shreve, Henry M,
300
Sidney, Sir Philip,
100
Silliman, Benjamin,
431
Simms, William Gilmore,
572
Skidmore, Thomas,
360
Slater, Samuel,
80
,
291-2
,
293
,
310
Slave, or The Memoirs of Archy Moore
(Hildreth),
522
slavery,
7
,
80
,
114
,
301
,
362
,
383
,
385-92
,
409
,
410-2
,
438
,
563
,
564
, abolition of,
25
,
114
,
142
,
350
,
620
,
625-8
; and agriculture,
274
,
275
,
282-5
,
286
,
301
,
302
; brutalization in,
142-3
,
149
,
353
,
384-5
,
392
,
574
; and Compromise of 1850,
472-5
,
522
,
543
; and Constitution,
39-40
,
366
,
465
,
520
; Dickens’s criticism of,
352
,
353
; extension of,
242-3
,
459
,
464-70
,
557
,
559
,
578
,
586
; family life under,
388-91
; fugitives from,
112
,
245
,
353
,
388
,
393
,
394
,
469-75
,
passim
,
519
,
522
,
545
,
549-50
,
558
,
605
; and liberty,
25
,
40
,
148-51
,
263
,
366
,
387
,
510
,
520
,
572-3
,
587
; plantation life under,
10
,
142-3
,
149
,
150
,
385-92
,
567-9
; population growth under,
390
; and religion,
149
,
150
,
386-7
,
391-2
,
494
; southern defense of,
573-4
; trade in,
40
,
72
,
141
,
221
,
253
,
254
,
352
,
384-5
,
388
,
390-1
,
448
,
468
,
472-3
,
568
,
574
,
589
,
601
; uprisings against,
27
,
148-51
,
73-4
,
329
,
392
,
394
,
568
,
570
,
591
,
626
;
see also
abolitionists; Missouri Compromise; sectionalism: and slavery issue; South, the
Smith, Caleb B.,
605
Smith, James Morton,
132
Smith, Jedediah,
455
Smith, Jeremiah,
229
Smith, Joseph,
499
Smith, Gen. Kirby,
611
Smith, Melancton,
56
Smith, Samuel,
205
Smith, William,
111-12
societies: democratic,
98-9
; political,
137
; scientific,
111
; secret,
334
society,
347
,
357
,
383
,
438
,
439
; absence of conflict in (as theory),
434-5
; agrarian,
7
,
258
,
347
,
348
,
415
,
420
,
438
,
574
; class distinctions in,
79
,
113-16
,
143
,
221-2
,
228-9
,
348
,
349
,
354-7
,
362
,
434-5
,
451
,
498
,
506
,
510
,
511
; and individualism,
482
,
489
,
491-2
; and technology,
484-5
,
489-90
,
491-2
; urban,
78-83
,
110-15
,
415
,
see, also
American national character; lower class; man; middle class; upper class; working class
Society of the Cincinnati,
82
,
98
Sons of Liberty,
23
,
49
,
137
,
185
,
222
Soulé, Pierre,
538-9
South, the,
506-7
,
514
,
573
; agriculture in,
141
,
274-5
,
276
,
277
,
282-7
,
302
,
309
,
450-1
,
529-30
,
608
; black Americans in,
392
,
393
,
409
,
567-8
; congressional influence of,
544-5
; economic problems in,
150
,
241-2
,
274
,
529-30
,
533
,
608
; limitation of civil liberties in,
392
,
573
; politics in,
322
,
325
,
380
,
381
,
559
,
560-2
,
564
,
576-8
,
579-80
,
592-3
,
599
; slavery issue in,
39
,
242-3
,
348-9
,
465
; solidity in,
591-2
; tariff issue in,
261
,
269-70
,
328-9
,
333
,
337
,
570
;
see also
Confederate States of America; secession; sectionalism; slavery
South America,
244
,
251-2
; rebellions in,
245
,
248-9
,
252
South Carolina,
6
,
7
,
52
,
92
,
152
,
227
,
241
,
261
,
274
,
307-9
,
392
,
395
,
409
,
529
,
566-75
; in Confederacy,
597
,
601
,
605-7
,
614
; ideology of liberty in,
571-3
,
599
; nullification proposed in,
329-30
,
333
,
336-7
,
346
,
569-70
,
571
; power elite of,
570-5
South Carolina College,
567
,
569
Southwest, the,
275
,
282
,
287
,
302
,
454
;
see also
Mexican War; Spain: Southwest possessions of
Southworth, Mrs. E. D. E. N.,
517
Spain,
99-100
,
172-5
,
179
,
195
,
196-7
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
254
; and Cuba,
537-9
; and Latin America,
244
,
248-9
; negotiations with Adams,
245
,
247-8
; possession of Floridas,
7
,
173-4
,
176
,
207
,
244-8
; Southwest possessions of,
4
,
5
,
7
,
53
,
95
,
107
,
124
,
176
,
216
,
244-8
,
445
Sparks, Jared,
448
speech, freedom of,
24-5
,
55
,
90
,
91
,
372
,
511
,
519
; threats to,
125
,
131
,
226
,
392
·
573
Speed, Joshua,
557
Springfield, Ill.,
555
,
557
,
583
,
587
,
595-6
,
603
Springfield, Mass.,
19-20
,
73
,
216
,
220
,
361
,
432
,
512
,
515
Squatter,
313
sovereignty,
see
popular sovereignty
Stagg, John,
82
Stanton, Edwin.
620
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
400-2
,
412
Staples, Sam,
486-7
Stark, Gen. John,
13
States,
68
,
94
; and Alien and SeditionActs,
131-3
; banks,
236
,
344-5
; and (U.S.) Constitution,
90
,
260
,
262
; constitutions of,
28
,
60
,
89
,
134
,
226
,
261
,
511
; debts of, assumption of,
85
; and education,
503-11
; governments of,
28
,
34
,
45
,
62-3
,
74
,
91
,
120
,
148
,
439
; internal improvements subsidized by,
307-9
,
435
,
505
; and judicial review,
193
,
577
; militias of,
74
,
201
,
210
,
214
,
215
,
236
,
258
,
358
,
392
,
446
,
452
,
453
; ratify Constitution,
42-3
,
46-59
,
89-90
,
104
,
134
,
428
; and suffrage,
364
;
see also
federalism