List of Entries

Abolition movement

Beckwourth, Jim

Church of Jesus Christ of

Economy

Adams, John Quincy

Bent, Charles

Latter-day Saints

Education

Adams-Onis Treaty

Bent, William

Cities and urban life

Election of 1828

African Americans

Benton, Thomas Hart

Claiborne, William C. C.

Election of 1840

Agriculture

Bent’s Fort

Claim clubs

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Alamo

Bidwell, John

Clay, Henry

Era of Good Feelings

American Anti-Slavery

Black Hawk War

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Erie Canal

Society

Bleeding Kansas (see

Colorado gold rush

Essex, USS

American Colonization

Volume V)

Colt, Samuel

Exploration

Society

Bloomer, Amelia

Colt revolver

Female antislavery societi

American Fur Company

Bodmer, Karl

Columbia River

Figueroa, Jose

American System

Bonus Bill

Compromise of 1850

Filibustering (see Volume

Amistad incident

Boudinot, Elias

Comstock Lode

V)

Anti-Catholic riots

Bowie, Jim

Cotton culture

Fillmore, Millard

Anti-Chinese agitation,

Brannan, Samuel

Creek

Finney, Charles Grandiso

Rise of

Bridger, James

Crockett, Davy

Florida, East and West

Anti-Masonry

Brook Farm

Cuba

Foreign policy

Applegate, Jesse

Brown, John (see

Dana, Richard Henry

Fort Laramie

Armijo, Manuel

Volume V)

Dartmoor Prison

Fort Leavenworth

Aroostook War

Burns, Anthony

Dartmouth College case

Fort Vancouver

Art and architecture

Cabet, Etienne

Decatur, Stephen

Forty-niners

Ashley, William Henry

Calhoun, John C.

Deere, John

Foster, Abigail Kelley

Astor, John Jacob

California

Delany, Martin (see

Fourier, Charles

Astoria

California gold rush

Volume V)

Franklin Institute

Atkinson, Henry

California missions

Democratic Party

Free-Soil Party

Audubon, John James

California Trail

Deseret, State of

Free Trade and Sailor’s

Austin, Moses

Campbell, Thomas

Disease and epidemics

Rights

Austin, Stephen F.

Canal era

Dix, Dorothea

Fremont, Jessie Benton

Baltimore, Battle of

Caroline affair

Donner party

Fremont, John C.

Baltimore & Ohio

Carson, Kit

Douglass, Frederick (see

Fugitive slave laws

Railroad

Cass, Lewis

Volume V)

Fuller, Margaret

Banking and currency

Catlin, George

Dow, Lorenzo

Fur trade

Bank of the United States,

Cherokee

Drayton, William H.

Gadsden Purchase

Second

Chickasaw

Dred Scott decision (see

Garnet, Henry Highland

Bear Flag Revolt

Chocktaw

Volume V)

Genius of Universal

Becknell, William

Chouteau family

Easton, Hosea

Emancipation

Ghent, Treaty of

Mann, Horace

Perry, Matthew Calbraith

Strauss, Levi

Gold, discovery and mining

Marriage and family life

Personal liberty laws

Sublette, William

Gregg, Josiah

Mason, Richard B.

Phillips, Wendell

Suffrage

Grimke, Angelina and

Massachusetts Emigrant

Pike, Zebulon

Supreme Court decisions

Sarah

Aid Society

Montgomery

Sutter, John

Guadalupe Hidalgo,

McCormick, Cyrus Hall

“Pike’s Peak or Bust”

Tallmadge Amendment

Treaty of

McCulloch v. Maryland

Polk, James K.

Taney, Roger B.

Hale, Sarah Josepha

McGuffey, William

Polygamy

Tappan, Arthur, and

Harpers Ferry (see

Holmes

Popular sovereignty

Tappan, Lewis

Volume V)

McIntosh, William

Public land policy

Taylor, Zachary

Harrison, William Henry

McLoughlin, John

Pushmataha

Tecumseh (see Volume

Hartford Convention

Medicine

Race and race relations

III)

Hastings, Lansford W.

Mexican-American War

Railroads

Temperance movement

Hawaiian Islands

Migration

Religion

Texas

Hicks, Elias

Missouri Compromise

Rendezvous

Texas Revolution

Horseshoe Bend, Battle of

Missouri Fur Company

Republican Party

Thames, Battle of the

Houston, Sam

Monroe, James

Ridge, John

Thoreau, Henry David

Hull, William

Monroe Doctrine

Rocky Mountain Fur

Trail of Tears

Immigration

Mormon Trail

Company

Transcendental movement

Indian Affairs, Bureau of

Mormon War

Ross, John

Travis, William Barret

Indian Removal Act

Morse, Samuel F. B.

Sac and Fox Nation

Truth, Sojourner (see

Industrialization

Mott, Lucretia

St. Vrain, Ceran

Volume V)

Interior, Department of

Mountain men

San Jacinto, Battle of

Tubman, Harriet (see

Internal improvements

Murrieta, Joaquin

Santa Anna, Antonio

Volume V)

Jackson, Andrew

Music

Lopez de

Turner, Nat

Journalism

National Road

Santa Fe Trail

Tyler, John

Kamehameha I

Native Americans

Science and technology

Van Buren, Martin

Kansas-Nebraska Act (see

Native Americans in the

Scott, Winfield

Vanderbilt, Cornelius

Volume V)

War of 1812

Second Great Awakening

Vesey, Denmark

Kearny, Stephen Watts

Nauvoo

Seminole

Walker, David

Keokuk

Negro Convention

Seminole War, First and

War Hawks

Key, Francis Scott

Movement

Second

War of 1812

Know-Nothing Party

New Madrid earthquake

Seneca Falls convention

Warren, Josiah

Labor movements

New Orleans, Battle of

Sequoyah

Webster, Daniel

Lafitte, Jean

Nullification Controversy

Seton, Elizabeth Ann

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Lake Erie, Battle of

Oregon Trail

Slavery

Weld, Theodore Dwight

Lamar, Mirabeau

Oregon Treaty of 1846

Slave trade, internal

Whig Party

Lamy, Jean Baptiste

Osceola

Smith, Jedediah Strong

Whitman, Marcus

Larkin, Thomas Oliver

Ostend Manifesto (see

Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Whitman, Narcissa

Lead mines

Volume V)

South Pass

Wilkes expedition

Lee, Jason

Overland mail

Spiritualism

Willard, Emma (Hart)

Liberia

Owen, Robert

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Williams, Peter, Jr.

Liberty Party

Panic of 1819

(see Volume V)

Wilmot Proviso (see

Literature

Panic of 1837

Stearns, Abel

Volume V)

Lovejoy, Elijah

Panic of 1857 (see

Stewart, Maria

Women’s status and rights

Lumbering

Volume V)

Still, William

Wright, Fanny

Lyceum movement

Paul, Nathaniel

Stockton, Robert Field

Wyeth, Nathaniel J.

Magoffin, James W.

Penitentiary movement

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Young, Brigham

Maine Law

Permanent Indian

(see Volume V)

Manifest Destiny

Frontier

Strang, James Jesse