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Sears, Isaac, 155
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Secession, proposed, 246
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Sedan chairs, 115
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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
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Selfishness, among colonists, 129
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Separationists, 149
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Separatist idea, 70
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Servants, early colonial, 118, 121
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Settlement, first, 8, 12
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Seventh Regiment, 247
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Seymour, Gov. Horatio. conduct in draft riots, 249; in presidential election of 1868, 252
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Sheriff, first, 50; office abolished, 55; appointment of, 178
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Sherman, Gen. W. T., 261
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Ship-building, 220
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Slavers, as pirates, 93
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Slaves, early importations of, 35; legislation against assemblages of, 67; insurrections of, 107, 120; in early colonial times, 119, 122; see also NEGROES
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Slave trade, 91
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Sloughter, Governor, 85, 86
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Smith, Rev. Sydney, criticism on American literature, 240
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Smuggling, early, 92; premium on, 98; put down by Bellomont, 100
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Social life, 115, 185; at beginning of nineteenth century, 202, 204; in modern times, 242, 244, 262
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Social lines, 112
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Society, in New Amsterdam, 35, 36; in 1710, 108, 109
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Sons of Liberty, organization of, 138; meeting of, 140; defense of the liberty-pole, 144; reorganization of, 146; riots and proceedings of, 153
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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
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Spanish wars, retarded American Revolution, 132
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Spoils system, establishment of, 194; De Witt Clinton’s introduction of, 215
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Sports, early colonial, 115, 116
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Stadt-huys, the, 37
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Stamp Act, passage of, 138, 139; opposition to, 138, 149; rioting, 138, 141; repeal of, 141
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Stamp Act Congress, meeting of, 138; Declaration of Rights and Address by 138
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Staten Island, settlements on, 25; Tory majority in, 158
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Steam navigation, beginning of, 208; increase in, 216; Vanderbilt’s connection with, 218
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Stevens, John, pioneer in steam navigation, 209
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Stockades, Indian, 28; on site of Wall Street, 37
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Stock-swindling, 252
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Storm-King, 8
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Street railways, beginning of, 238
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Streets, laying out, 25; lighting of, 205; cleaning of, 205
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Stuart dynasty, consequences of overthow of, 73, 89
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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
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Suffrage, limitations of, 175; widening of, 213; universal, 262
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Sugar-house, used as prison, 170
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Sumptuary laws, 24
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Surinam, value compared with New Netherlands, 52, 57
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Swallow Tail Line of packets, the, 221
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Swedes, settlements in America, 3, 4; trouble on the Delaware, 26, 40
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Tammany Hall, controls Democratic party, 237
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Taverns, the first, 21; establishment of, 118
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