list party, 228;
Roosevelt's efforts to reform, 235

Revolution of 1689 transfers government of Maryland to Protestants, 5;
Hamilton's admiration for, 54

Revolution, French (_see_ French Revolution)

Rhode Island, a Puritan Colony, 5;
provisional acceptance of invitation to Hartford Convention, 81

Richmond, Virginia, capital of Confederacy transferred to, 176;
Confederate Congress to meet at, 180;
Northern demand for capture of, 180;
abandoned by Lee, 201

Rochambeau, co-operates with Washington against Cornwallis, 34

Rockingham Whigs, repeal Stamp Act, 16;
conclude peace, 35

Roosevelt, Theodore, elected Vice-President, 235;
succeeds McKinley, 235;
his campaign against Trusts, 235;
popularity of, 235;
denounces his successor, 236;
founds Progressive Party, 236;
wishes U.S. to join Allies, 238

Rosecrans, General, defeated at Chickamauga, 198

San Francisco, Republican Convention at, 236

Saratoga, Burgoyne's surrender at, 29;
effect of, 29-30

"Scallywags," 221

Scotch-Irish, immigration of, 8-9

Secession, contemplated at Hartford Convention, 81;
talked of in South Carolina, 123;
of South Carolina, 158;
of Gulf States, 161;
motives, of, 163-164;
Northern views of, 164;
Abolitionists favour, 164;
Greeley on, 164;
Jacksonians oppose, 165;
a popular movement, 166;
Lincoln denies right of, 160;
Douglas resists, 174;
of Virginia, etc., 176

Sedition Law, 63

Seminole Indians, Jackson pursues, 87

Senate, how chosen, 47;
Whig majority in, 106;
refuses to confirm appointment of Taney, 106;
censures Jackson, 106;
Censure expunged, 107;
Northern majority in, 163

Seven Years' War, outbreak of, 9

Seward, William, Senator, for New York, 139;
his speech on Fugitive Slave Law, 139;
passed over for Fremont, 145;
for Lincoln, 153;
Secretary of State, 172;
attempt to assassinate, 207;
his desire for foreign war, 213

_Shannon_, the, duel with the _Chesapeake_, 80

Shay's Insurrection, 42;
Jefferson on, 61

Shenandoah Valley, Johnstone in, 180;
Jackson's campaign in, 186;
Sheridan in, 201

Sheridan, General, his campaign in Shenandoah Valley, 201

Sherman, Senator John, opposes Negro Suffrage, 218

Sherman, General William T., left in command in the West, 197;
wins Battle of Chattanooga, 198;
moves on Atlanta, 199;
takes Atlanta, 200;
his march to the sea, 201;
receives surrender of Jo