Missouri, disputes regarding admission of, 85; admitted as a Slave State, 86; settlers from, invade Kansas, 143, 150; defeat of Secessionists in, 176; becomes a Free State, 203 Missouri Compromise effected, 86; terms of, 86; validity of, disputed, 142; violated by Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 142; party formed to defend, 143; declared invalid, 147 Missouri Whisky Ring, 228 _Monitor_, the, duel with the _Merrimac_, 184 Monroe, James, a member of the War Party, 78; President, 84; declares European intervention unfriendly to U.S., 88; last of the Virginian dynasty, 91 Monroe Doctrine, propounded, 88; keystone of American policy, 88-89; application to Texas, 118; Napoleon III. violates, 213 Monterey, defeat of Mexicans at, 120; Davis wounded at, 140 Morgan, murder of, 112 Napoleon I., obtains Louisiana, 68; sells to U.S., 68; Jefferson's attitude towards, 76 Napoleon III., intervenes in Mexico, 213; withdraws, 214 Nashville, Tennessee, abandoned by Confederates, 184 National Debt, establishment of, 55; not to be repudiated, 216 "National Republicans," policy of, 84 Navigation Laws, 11, 15 Navy, U.S., successes of, in War of, 1812, 80; use of, by North, 184; New Orleans captured by, 186 Negroes, brought to America as slaves, 12; Jefferson's views on, 75; Irish antagonism to, 195; Lee proposes recruitment of, 199; problem of, not settled by emancipation, 203; behaviour of, during Civil War, 212; Southern feeling towards, 212-213; their desire for freedom, 221; their political incompetence, 221; organization of, 221; conduct of, 222; thrown over by the Republican Party, 228; concession to, in Immigration Law, 231 Negro Rule, imposed on the South, 220; effects of, 222; resistance offered to, 223; overthrow of, 224-225; results of, 225-226 Negro Slavery (_see_ Slavery) Negro Suffrage, Lincoln's proposals regarding, 204; provisions of Fourteenth Amendment as to, 217; Lee on prospects of, 217; Congress committed to, 218; imposed on the South, 220 New Hampshire, colonized for New England, 5 New Jersey, acquisition of, 7 New Mexico, acquired by U.S., 122; open to Slavery, 126 New Orleans, attacked by British, 83; Jackson successfully defends, 83; message of Dix to, 165; captured by Farragut, 186; racial riot in, 218 New York, origin of, 6; becomes a British possession, 6; the objective of Lord Howe, 27; votes with the South, 58; Tammany Hall founded in, 58; Burr controls Democratic organization of, 66; runs for Governor of, 72; Van Buren fears power of Bank in, 104; riots against Draft in, 195 _New York Tribune_, on Secession, 164