Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). New York. 1906.
Subject Index
| Sears, Isaac, 155 |
| Secession, proposed, 246 |
| Sedan chairs, 115 |
| Self-government, Dutch love for, 24; demands for, 29; early steps toward, 66, 90; failure under James II., 69; action of Assembly in regard to, 105; a necessary ingredient in, 106; of Canada and Australia, 131; restriction of, 178; powers of American cities contrasted with those of Europe, 178 |
| Selfishness, among colonists, 129 |
| Separationists, 149 |
| Separatist idea, 70 |
| Servants, early colonial, 118, 121 |
| Settlement, first, 8, 12 |
| Seventh Regiment, 247 |
| Seymour, Gov. Horatio. conduct in draft riots, 249; in presidential election of 1868, 252 |
| Sheriff, first, 50; office abolished, 55; appointment of, 178 |
| Sherman, Gen. W. T., 261 |
| Ship-building, 220 |
| Slavers, as pirates, 93 |
| Slaves, early importations of, 35; legislation against assemblages of, 67; insurrections of, 107, 120; in early colonial times, 119, 122; see also NEGROES |
| Slave trade, 91 |
| Sloughter, Governor, 85, 86 |
| Smith, Rev. Sydney, criticism on American literature, 240 |
| Smuggling, early, 92; premium on, 98; put down by Bellomont, 100 |
| Social life, 115, 185; at beginning of nineteenth century, 202, 204; in modern times, 242, 244, 262 |
| Social lines, 112 |
| Society, in New Amsterdam, 35, 36; in 1710, 108, 109 |
| Sons of Liberty, organization of, 138; meeting of, 140; defense of the liberty-pole, 144; reorganization of, 146; riots and proceedings of, 153 |
| Spain, early explorations of, 2; waning power of, 2; tenacity in America, 3; warfare of the West India Company against, 12, 13; wars with, 90 |
| Spanish wars, retarded American Revolution, 132 |
| Spoils system, establishment of, 194; De Witt Clinton’s introduction of, 215 |
| Sports, early colonial, 115, 116 |
| Stadt-huys, the, 37 |
| Stamp Act, passage of, 138, 139; opposition to, 138, 149; rioting, 138, 141; repeal of, 141 |
| Stamp Act Congress, meeting of, 138; Declaration of Rights and Address by 138 |
| Staten Island, settlements |
| Steam navigation, beginning of, 208; increase in, 216; Vanderbilt’s connection with, 218 |
| Stevens, John, pioneer in steam navigation, 209 |
| Stockades, Indian, 28; on site of Wall Street, 37 |
| Stock-swindling, 252 |
| Storm-King, 8 |
| Street railways, beginning of, 238 |
| Streets, laying out, 25; lighting of, 205; cleaning of, 205 |
| Stuart dynasty, consequences of overthow of, 73, 89 |
| Stuyvesant, Peter, succeeds Kieft as governor, 30; tradition about, 31; personal appearance and character, 32; residence, 37; relations with Indians and New Englanders, 40; seizes the Swedish colony on the Delaware, 40; quarrels with the colonists, 40 |
| Suffrage, limitations of, 175; widening of, 213; universal, 262 |
| Sugar-house, used as prison, 170 |
| Sumptuary laws, 24 |
| Surinam, value compared with New Netherlands, 52, 57 |
| Swallow Tail Line of packets, the, 221 |
| Swedes, settlements in America, 3, 4; trouble on the Delaware, 26, 40 |
| Tammany Hall, controls Democratic party, 237 |
| Taverns, the first, 21; establishment of, 118 |