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Radical Republicans, 356 and, 513–514; professions and, Roosevelt, Franklin D.: election Schurz, Carl, 498
Radicals and radicalism: bombs and, 532; progressivism and, 449, 524, of 1920, 579; election of 1932, Schwab, Charles M., 411
590; fear of, 590–592, 666–667; 530–537, 552–553; social-justice, 609–610, 610; New Deal and, Schwarzkopf, Norman, 747, 750
McCarthyism and, 667–669; 532–533, 592; working conditions 604, 610–613; World War II and, Scientific management, 509, 538
strikes and, 424, 590 and, 511 630–634, 637 Scientific method, progressivism
Radio, 585 Refrigeration, 408, 415 Roosevelt, Theodore, 479, 490, 504, and, 532, 533–534
Ragtime music, 440 Regulation: economic, 459–461; 505; election of 1900 and, 477; SCLC. See Southern Christian
Railroad Administration, 573 Theodore Roosevelt and, 541, election of 1912, 529; election of Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Railroads: advantages of, 406; buffalo 542–543; Woodrow Wilson and, 1912 and, 547–549; election of Scopes trial, 596
extermination and, 386, 386–387; 552 1916 and, 564–565, 565; foreign Scott, Thomas A., 408, 411
cattle and, 394–397; construc- Regulatory commissions, 538, 539 policy of, 557–559, 558, 558; Scowcroft, Brent, 745, 746, 747, 749
tion of, 406–407, 407; farming Rehnquist, William, 760, 771 hunting in Africa, 528–529, 529; SDI. See Strategic Defense
and, 464; federal investment in, Religion. See also Fundamentalism; as progressive president, 477, Initiative (SDI)
406–407; Great Depression and, Missions and missionaries; specific 522, 539–542, 541, 552–553; SDS. See Students for a Democratic
606; industrial development and, religious groups and churches: Spanish-American War and, Society (SDS)
405–411, 407, 409, 410; problems 1950s organized, 678; nineteenth 479–481, 496, 501 Sears, Richard W., 418
in growth of, 409–410; recon- century values and, 439 Roosevelt Corollary, 559, 561 Sears, Roebuck & Company, 418
struction and, 367; regulation of, Remarque, Erich Maria, 628 Root, Elihu, 540, 557–558, 576 Seattle (WA), 590
542–543, 546, 552; settlement of Remington, Frederick, 501 Root, John, 432 Sea Wolf, The (London), 471
West and, 387–391; strikes and, Republican Guard (Iraq), 751 Root-Takahira Agreement, 559 Sedition Act (1918), 572
665; transcontinental, 408–409, Republican party. See also Republi- Rose, Reginald, 679 Segregation. See also Civil rights
410; trunk lines of, 408; urbaniza- can presidents by name: African Rosenberg, Ethel, 667 movement; Desegregation: Black
tion and, 522 Americans and, 355, 366, 369, Rosenberg, Julius, 667 Codes and, 358, 366; courts and,
Rainey, Gertrude (“Ma”), 523 370–372, 540, 618; normalcy Rostow, Walt W., 694, 705 442; Jim Crow and, 446–448; post
Ranching. See Cattle and cattle (1920s) and, 596–600, 602; pro- Rotary printing press, 418 World War II, 681; progressive
ranching gressivism and split in, 527–529, Rothko, Mark, 680 groups and, 534–535; schools
Randolph, A. Philip, 642, 643 545–549; realignment (1890s) Rough Riders, 479–481, 492, 494, and, 442–443, 683–686, 685; in
Rapier, James T., 368 and, 472, 475–477; in Reconstruc- 495–496, 501 Spanish-American War, 494;
Rationing: in World War I, 573; in tion era, 355, 359–363, 366–368; Royal Navy (Britain), 630 Truman and, 681; Wilson and, 551
World War II, 640 resurgence of (Bush, Jr.), 760–767, Rubin, Jerry, 711 Selective Service Act (1917), 567
Reagan, Nancy, 719, 719–721 774; resurgence of (Reagan), 743; Ruby, Jack, 701 Self-determination: World War I
Reagan, Ronald, 719; election of 1980 Spanish-American War and, 501 “Rule of reason,” 547 and, 576, 577, 577; World War II
and, 737–739, 738, 738; presidency Republic Steel, 412, 618 Rural free delivery. See RFD (rural and, 651
of, 719, 740–743, 743; shift to right Reservations (Native American), free delivery) Selma (AL), 704
and, 719–721 381–383, 384, 386–387 Rusk, Dean, 661, 694, 696–697 Seminole Indians,; Oklahoma and, 399
Real estate bubble collapse, 767–768 Restraint of trade: Clayton Antitrust Russell, Charles M., 395 Senate (U.S.), 466, 545
Realism in literature, 471 Act and, 551–552; Sherman Russell, Richard, 702 “Separate but equal” doctrine, 442
Rearmament, Korean War and, 664 Antitrust Act and, 459–460, 461, Russia, 561, 567, 575. See also Soviet Separation of powers: Johnson
Recall, 539 540–541, 547; unions and, 551 Union impeachment and, 363
Recessions, 622; of 1950s, 675, 676; of Reuben James (ship), 632 Russian Republic, 749 September 11, 2001, 763, 764
1970s, 729; of 1980s, 737–739, 738, Reunion: and New South, 372–374 Russian Revolution, 567, 590 Serbs, in World War I, 561
739, 748; of 1990s, 757; of 2000s, Reuther, Walter, 618 Russo-Japanese War, 559 Serling, Rod, 679
763; Great (2007), 768–770, 772 Revenue Act (1764), 110 Rustin, Bayard, 687 Settlement houses, 451–452, 452
Reconstruction, 353–376, 361; Revenue Act (1916), 552 Rutgers University, 440 Seventeenth Amendment, 539
amendments and, 360, 360; Black Rexall drugstores, 585 Ruth, Babe, 587 Seward, William H., 484
Codes and, 358, 366; congressional RFD (rural free delivery), 511 “Seward’s Folly,” 484
plan of, 361–363; president vs. Rhee, Syngman, 662 S Sewell, Anna, 471
Congress in, 355–363, 376; radical, Ribicoff, Abraham, 698 Sex and sexuality: in 1920s, 588–589;
355–356, 361–362, 372; during Rice, Joseph, 442 Sacco, Nicola, 591 in 1950s consumer society, 679;
reconstruction era, 361; reign of Rights. See also Bill of Rights; Civil Saigon, South Vietnam, 694–695, victorian morality and, 439, 442
terror during, 370–372; retreat rights movement; Freedom(s); 705, 706, 709, 715 Sex in Education (Clarke), 443
from, 369–372, 376; reunion and Women, rights of: gay, 771 Saint-Lô, France, 644 Sexual equality. See Gay rights
New South, 372–374; southern Right-to-life groups, 731 Saloons, 533 Shame of the Cities, The (Steffens),
society and, 363–369, 376; unfin- Rio Grande Pueblo (Indians), 380 SALT. See Strategic Arms Limitation 505
ished revolution and, 374–375; Riots, 732. See also Race riots Talks (SALT) Shapiro, Annie, 519
wartime, 355–356 River Rouge Ford plant, 581 Salt Lake City (UT), 391 Sharecropping, 365, 365, 618
Reconstruction Acts, 361–362 Roads and highways. See also Wagon Sampson, William T., 495 “Share the Wealth” movement, 615
Records (sound), 522 trains: midtwentieth century, 677 San Antonio (TX), 389–390 Shasta Indians, 380
Red Army (Soviet Union), 645, 651, Roaring Twenties: city life and, Sandburg, Carl, 491, 524 Shaw, Anna Howard, 535
749 585–589, 602; conservative coun- Sand Creek (CO), 382 Shepard, Matthew, 733
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), terattack in, 589–596; politics in, Sandinistas, 736, 741 Sheppard-Towner Act (1921), 586
471 596–601 San Francisco (CA), 391 Sherman, William Tecumseh, 364
Red Cloud (chief), 382, 383 Roberts, John (chief justice), 771 San Juan Hill, battle of, 492, 494, Sherman Antitrust Act (1890),
Redeemers, 373–374 Robins, Margaret Dreier, 518 495–496 459–460, 461, 540–541, 547
Red Scare, 575, 590–592; second, Robinson, Jo Ann, 687 Santa Fe Railroad, 468 Sherman Silver Purchase Act
666, 669, 670 Rochester (NY), 522, 712 Santiago de Cuba, 495 (1890), 460–461, 469
Reed, Thomas B. (“Czar”), 461 Rockefeller, John D., 412–415, 414, Saudi Arabia, 747, 750–751, 764 Shi’ite Muslims, Iraq, 766–767
Referenda, 539 417, 443, 540 Scalawags, 366 Shopping centers, 584, 677
Reform and reform movements, Rock music, 711, 717 Schlafly, Phyllis, 731 Shoshone Indians, 383
448–453. See also Great Society; Rocky Mountains, 379, 379 Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 697 Shriver, R. Sargent, 703
Labor Unions; New Deal; big Roebuck, Alvah C., 418 Schneiderman, Rose, 510, 510 Sicily, invasion of, 638
business and, 508; child labor and, Roe v. Wade, 731–732, 732, 771 Scholastic Aptitude Test, 684 Sierra Nevada Mountains, 379, 387,
513; cities and states and, 537–539; Roman Catholicism. See Catholicism School(s): desegregation of, 683–685; 393, 408
late nineteenth century, 439, Romania, 653, 749 nineteenth century, 442; post “Significance of the Frontier in
457; muckrakers and, 503–505; Rommel, Erwin, 634, 638 World War II, 678–680; religious, American History, The” (Turner),
Niagara Movement and NAACP Roosevelt, Eleanor, 618 436; during World War II, 641 399
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