The New NationPaxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan)
History
The New Nation
Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan)
United States -- History -- 1865-1921
Huerta, Victoriano, President of Mexico, 340.
Hughes, Charles E., exposes wrongdoing of insurance companies, 312;
mentioned for Presidency, 324.
Hull House, 251.
Humphreys, Benjamin G., 46.
Husbandry, Patrons of, 193.
Idaho, becomes a Territory, 21;
admitted to the Union, 152.
Immigration movement, the, influences of, 123, 124.
Income tax, 221, 327, 338.
Indians, removal of, 22, 25;
outbreaks of, 25, 86;
Dawes Bill, 142, 151, 319.
Industrial Commission, 298.
Industrial consolidation, evolves new type of trust, 297, 299.
Industrial revival, after 1897, 293, 294.
Industrial revolution, effects of, 95.
Inflation Bill, the, 66.
Ingersoll, Robert G., quoted, 92.
Initiative and referendum, 249, 250.
Interstate Commerce Act, the, 142, 158, 159;
commission created, 159, 160;
influence of rebate system on, 165;
had little immediate effect, 180;
an imperfect statute, 314;
strengthened by Congress, 315, 330.
Irons, Martin, 135.
Irrigation, 142, 291.
Italians, lynched in New Orleans, 213.
Jackson, Andrew, 8, 111.
James, Thomas L., 102, 103, 104.
Japan, at war with Russia, 317.
Johnson, Andrew, candidate for the Vice-Presidency, 4;
becomes President upon death of Lincoln, 32;
opposition of Congress to, 33, 34;
impeached by House, 35;
acquitted, 36;
vetoes arbitrary acts of Congress, 48.
Johnson, Gov. Hiram, 337.
Johnson, Reverdy, 55.
Journalism, expansion of, 162;
reorganized in the later nineties, 311.
Kansas City, important as meeting place of railways, 150, 151.
Kearney, Dennis, 94, 124.
Keifer, J. Warren, 108.
Kelly, John, 131.
Kerr, Michael C., 108.
Kipling, Rudyard, _The White Man's Burden_, 274.
Knickerbocker Trust Company, suspension of, 322.
Knights of Labor, secret society in the East, 94;
meet with disfavor, 121;
demands of, 122;
fight the Gould railways, 135;
success of, 183;
union with Farmers' Alliance, 186, 187;
in Pullman strike, 222.
Knox, Philander C., 296, 320, 331.
Ku-Klux Klan, the, 52.
Labor, tariff supposed to protect, 119;
Commissioner of, 122;
Bureau of, 135;
danger from European pauper, 139;
becomes better united, 299.
_See also_ Knights of Labor, Strikes.
La Follette, Robert M., defeated for Congress, 185;
works out a system of primaries, 249;
in the Senate debate on railroads, 315;
leader of Insurgent Republicans, 329;
possible Presidential candidate, 330, 335, 336.
Lamar, L.Q.C., 133.
Land grants, to railroads, 22, 24, 148, 156;
discontinued, 143.
Land laws, difficulty in enforcing, 155, 156.
Lawson. Thomas W., 310.
Lawton, Gen. Henry W., 271.
Liberal Republicans, secede in 1872 and nominate Greeley and Brown, 56;
platform of, 56, 57;
in Garfield's administration, 102;
favor civil service reform and tariff revision, 112, 116, 126;
put Edmunds forward for Presidential candidate (1884), 128.
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