Postal savings bank, 529
Preble, Commodore, 196
Press. _See_ Newspapers
Primary, direct, 541
Princeton, battle, 129
University, 45
Profit sharing, 572
Progressive party, 531f.
Prohibition, 591f.
Proprietary colonies, 3, 6
Provinces, royal, 49ff.
Public service, 538ff.
Pulaski, 121
Pullman strike, 465
Pure food act, 523
Puritans, 3, 7, 40ff.
Quakers, 6ff.
Quartering act, 83
Quebec act, 94
Queen Anne's War, 59
Quit rents, 21f.
Radicals, 579
Railways, 298, 402, 425, 460ff., 547, 621
Randolph, Edmund, 146, 147, 162
Ratification, of Constitution, 156ff.
Recall, 543
Reclamation, 523ff.
Reconstruction, 370ff.
Referendum, the, 543
Reign of terror, 174
Republicans: Jeffersonian, 179
rise of present party, 334ff.
supremacy of, 412ff.
_See also_ McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft
Resumption, 454
Revolution: American, 99ff.
French, 171ff.
Russian, 619
Rhode Island: founded, 4ff.
self-government, 49
_See also_ Suffrage
Roosevelt, Theodore, 492, 500ff., 531, 570
Royal province, 49ff.
Russia, 205, 207, 355, 479, 619
Russo-Japanese War, 511f.
Saint Mihiel, 612
Samoa, 481
San Jacinto, 280
Santa Fe trail, 287
Santo Domingo, 480, 513, 592
Saratoga, battle, 116, 130
Savannah, 116, 131
Scandinavians, 278
Schools. _See_ Education
Scott, General, 283, 330
Scotch-Irish, 7ff.
Seamen's act, 590
Sea power: American Revolution, 118
Napoleonic wars, 193ff.
Civil War, 353
Caribbean, 593
Pacific, 447
World War, 610ff.
Secession, 344ff.
Sedition: act of 1798, 180ff., 187
of 1918, 608
Senators, popular election, 527, 541ff.
Seven Years' War, 60ff.
Sevier, John, 218
Seward, W.H., 322, 342
Shafter, General, 492
Shays's rebellion, 142
Sherman, General, 361
Sherman: anti-trust law, 461
silver act, 458
Shiloh, 361
Shipping. _See_ Commerce
Shipping act, 607
Silver, free, 455ff.
Slavery: colonial, 16f.
trade, 150
in Northwest, 219
decline in North, 316f.
growth in South, 320ff.
and the Constitution, 324
and territories, 325ff.
compromises, 350
abolished, 357ff.
Smith, Joseph, 290
Socialism, 577ff.
Solid South, 388
Solomon, Hayn, 126
Sons of liberty, 82
South: economic and political views, 309ff.
_See also_ Slavery and Planting system, and Reconstruction
South Carolina: founded, 6
nullification, 253ff.
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