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states’ rights,
231
,
258
,
259
,
345-6
,
348
,
372
; in Confederacy,
612-14
; vs. federal government,
34-5
,
36
,
40
,
74
,
135
,
136
,
259-60
,
261
,
262
,
447
,
563-4
,
569-73
,
599
,
605
; Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions,
132-3
,
139
,
162
,
261
; and Nullification,
329-31
,
333
,
335
,
336-7
,
346
,
544
; and popular sovereignty,
544
,
550
,
577
,
579-80
,
584-5
; and Supreme Court,
466
,
469
,
575-8

steamboats,
41
,
277
,
296-302
,
311
,
433
,
450
; lake,
532
; on Mississippi,
277
,
296-7
,
299-301
,
532-3
; monopolies in,
259
,
297
,
298
,
299
,
301
,
431

steam locomotives,
429
,
431-2
,
484-5
,
488

steam power,
275
,
277
,
287
,
347
,
489
,
512

Stephens, Alexander H.,
549
,
565
,
601
,
603

Stephenson. George,
431

Stevens, John,
277
,
297
,
431

Stevens, Thaddeus,
334
,
503-4
,
615

Stevenson, Andrew,
268

Stiles, Ezra,
72

Stockbridge, Mass.,
20
,
360
,
413

Stone, Barton W.,
495

Stone, Gen. Charles,
620

Stone, Huldah,
399

Story, Joseph.
260
,
328
,
339
,
436

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
522
,
569
,
588
;
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
,
522

Strong, Caleb,
35

Stuart, Gilbert,
112
,
214

Suffolk Bank of Boston,
296

suffrage: broadened,
265
,
364-6
,
367
,
374
,
378
,
392-3
,
409
,
498
,
503
; and equality,
362-3
; limited,
21
,
59
,
226
,
349
,
350
,
362-5
,
377
,
392
,
399
,
415
; and women,
148
,
400
,
401-2

Sumner, Charles,
545
,
551-2
,
554
,
558
,

Supreme Court,
38-9
,
70
,
187-8
,
193
,
259
,
261
,
453
,
466
,
469
,
564
,
575-8
; Dred Scott decision,
575-8
,
582
,
585
,
619
; and judicial review,
187-9
,
193
,
262
,
577
; under Marshall,
184-9
,
193
,
202
,
258-60
,
301
,
335
,
381
,
436
,
575
; and supremacy of federal government,
259
,
335

Sutter, John Augustus,
456-7
,
471
,
475

Swedenborg, Emanuel,
481

Swell, Leonard,
595

Swift, Jonathan,
112

Talleyrand,
121-2
,
123
,
124
,
128
,
174
,
76
,
195

Tallmadge, James,
242

Talmadge, Nathaniel P.,
345

Tammany Hall,
81-2
,
108
,
136
,
147
,
246
,
303
,
309
,
408

Taney, Roger B.,
332
,
339
,
466
,
575-7
,
582-3
,
605
,
619

Tappan, Lewis,
520

Tariff,
84
,
426
; of Abominations (1828),
269-70
,
320
,
329
; as political issue,
320
,
333
,
334
,
336
,
375
,
435
,
457
,
599
;
see also
industry: tariffs for; South: tariff issue in taxation: for education,
504
,
505
,
508
,
509
; property,
146
,
358
; and Shays’s Rebellion,
13-14
,
18
; on whiskey,
93
,
97-9

Taylor, John,
51
,
132
,
258

Taylor, John W.,
242
,
268

Taylor, Nathaniel,
497

Taylor, Zachary,
460-2
,
564
; election and presidency of,
426
,
469-70
,
472
,
473-4
,
540

technology,
484-5
,
489-90
,
491-2
,
512
,
513
;
see also
machines

Tecumseh,
207
,
211-13
,
216
,
342

telegraph,
430-1
,
511
,
513-14

temperance movement,
360
,
361
,
400
,
414
,
467
,
558
,
599

Tennessee,
216
,
315
,
360
,
366-7
,
496
,
529-30
,
602
,
608
,
616
,
621
; politics in,
173
,
266
,
319
,
321
,
341

Terry, Eli,
290

Texas,
472
,
530
,
597
,
608
; annexation of,
459-60
,
464
,
468
; under Mexico,
454-5
,
459-64
; under Spain,
176
,
246
,
248
,
249-50

textile industry,
73
,
75
,
80
,
276
,
291-6
,
311
,
373
,
396
,
408-9
,
437
,
489
; English,
200
,
275
,
282
,
285-6
,
291-2
,
293
,
439
; labor in,
75
,
89
,
281
,
288
,
292-5
,
351
,
358
,
395-400
,
434
,
589
; machinery for,
282
,
291-3
,
295
,
396
,
534
; paternalism in,
294-5
,
396-8

Thayer, John,
9

theater,
79
,
112
,
356
,
516

Thomas, Jesse B.,
242

Thomas, Seth,
290

Thomson, Charles,
64

Thoreau, Henry,
484-7
,
491
,
517
,
522
,
590
; and civil disobedience,
486-7
; “Excursions on Concord & Merrimack Rivers,”
487
; and the railroad,
484-5
;
Walden
,
476
,
487
,
491
,
588

Throop, Enos,
372

Ticknor, George,
478
,
481

Ticknor, William D.,
534

Tiffany, Charles L.,
534
,
588

Tippecanoe, attack at,
207
,
211

tobacco,
8
,
256
,
264
,
274
,
276
,
282
,
529-30
,
589

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
354-8
,
384
,
449-50
,
493

Tolstoi, Count Leo,
486
;
War and Peace
,
194
,
608

Tories,
16
,
23
,
58
,
218
,
439

Toronto (York),
213

Toussaint L’Ouvenure, General,
173-4

towns,
7
,
218-23
,
430
,
541

trade and commerce,
125
,
195
,
216-22
,
225
,
275-6
,
361
,
455
,
457
,
506
; attacks on U.S. ships,
102
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
205-6
,
208
,
291
,
445
; effect of Embargo Act on,
200-1
; expansion of,
80
,
141
,
179
,
251
,
275
,
534
,
535
,
587
; foreign.
216
,
276
,
535-6
,
542
,
587-8
; internal,
141
,
277
,
286
,
299-302
,
309-10
,
432
,
450
,
536
; during Napoleonic wars,
198-9
,
205-7
,
295
; triangular,
113-14
,
309-10
; and War of 1812,
205-7
,
208
,
218
,
230
;
see also
Mississippi River: trading on; tariff

Transcendentalists,
468
,
481
,
482-3

transportation,
89
,
296-305
,
308
,
533
,
564
; for food market,
276-7
,
285
,
286
,
287
,
299
,
301
,
528
; for migrants,
315-17
,
449-50

Travis, Col. Buck,
454-5

Travis, Joseph,
391-2

treason,
202
,
336

Treaty of Ghent (1814),
231-5

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848),
464

Trenton, N.J.,
65
,
406

Trescot, William Henry,
574

Tripoli,
195-6
,
236

Trist, Nicholas P.,
463-4

Trollope, Frances,
317
,
353

Troup, George,
330

Troy Female Seminary,
400

True American
(newspaper),
573

Truth, Sojourner,
410-13

Tucker, Ellen,
481

Tucker, George,
241

Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly,
572

Tudor, Frederic,
394
,
429

Tunis,
195
,
236

Turgol, Anne Robert Jacques,
17

Turner, Benjamin,
391

Turner, Frederick Jackson,
197

Turner, Nat,
391-2

Twelfth Amendment,
229

Tyler, John,
53
,
419
,
422
; bank proposal of,
424-5
; presidency of,
422-6
; states’ rights endorsed by,
423
,
424-6
; and Texas annexation,
459-60

Ulm, Battle of,
194-5

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe),
522

Underground Railroad,
393

unemployment,
344
,
406
,
446
,
589

Union, the: dissolved,
597
,
607
; efforts to preserve,
327-30
,
472-5
,
525-6
,
596-7
,
600
,
615
; Lincoln on,
562
,
582
,
587
,
604-5
,
625

Union Army,
607
,
614-17
,
619-25
,
628
; in battle,
605-7
,
609-12
,
621-2
,
624
,
626
; of the Potomac,
617
,
621-2
; strategy of,
608
,
615-16

Unitarians,
373
,
468
,
477
,
479
,
481
,
482-3
,
498
,
506

United States Bank,
86-8
,
261
,
344
; First,
137
,
168
,
335
; Second,
236-7
,
240
,
241-2
,
259
,
335
,
361
,
374
,
445
,
466
;
see also
Jackson, Andrew: and United States Bank

United States Military Academy, West Point,
213
,
215
,
464
,
623

United States Patent Office,
530
,
533
,
563

University of Virginia,
255
,
273

upper class,
223-4
,
255-7
,
362
,
400
,
434
,
450
,
497
; in cities,
78-9
,
81
,
110-16
passim
,
222
,
355-7
,
406
,
409
; and education,
503-5
; influence of,
348
,
383
; and politics,
370-4
,
377
,
378
,
497-8
,
435-7

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