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and money and banking, 304-5

and morality, 301

and neutrality, 318

and organized labor, 414

and patriotism, 405

and politics, 394-95

and poor/poverty, 394-95

in post-revolutionary New York, 278, 280, 283, 284, 295, 301, 304-5, 306

and prisons, 366

radical, 396-97, 510-11

and ratification of constitution, 295

and religion, 396-97

and selection of federal capital, 301

in 1790s and early 1800s, 366, 372, 379, 394-95, 396-97, 401, 405

and slavery, 553

and Statue of Liberty, 1034

and Tammany societies, 316

and Tories, 278, 317–18

and unemployment, 1026

and voting, 330

and women’s role in society, 407

and working class, 317

Republicans: blacks as, 857, 858-60, 862, 1034

and Catholics, 853, 862

and city-state relations, 835-36, 837, 838

and Civil War, 864, 865, 866, 867, 869, 876, 879, 880, 885, 886, 888, 889-90, 893, 894, 895-97, 902, 903

and Consolidation, 1220, 1227, 1231, 1233, 1234

and consumerism, 879

and Crash of 1873, 1029

and draft riot, 880-90, 893, 894, 895-97

and elections of 1860, 864-65

and elections of 1864, 901–3

and elections of 1886, 1099

and entertainment, 1154

and events leading to Civil War, 853, 854, 857, 858-60, 861-62, 863

and financial system, 988

and Good Government, 1191-94, 1201, 1203, 1205, 1206

and immigrants, 853, 862

and Irish, 853

in late nineteenth century, 983, 987, 988, 1005, 1010, 1029, 1034-35, 1047, 1099, 1105, 1106, 1109, 1154, 1191-94, 1201, 1203, 1205, 1206

in mid-nineteenth century, 835-36, 850, 851, 853, 854, 857, 858-60, 861-62, 863

and municipal government, 1109

and organized labor, 988

and Panic of 1857, 850

and Panic of 1861, 866

and poor relief, 1029

and Reconstruction, 1034-35

and reform, 880

rise of, 857, 861

and slavery, 853, 858-60, 862, 885

and toppling of Tweed, 1010

war chest of, 1205

and Whigs, 860

and Wood administration, 850, 851

Rescue Home for Fallen and Homeless Girls, 1158

Reservoirs, 848, 954

Restaurants, 323, 437, 723-24, 814, 947, 948. See also Delmonico’s restaurant

Retailers: and British occupation of New York, 247

as Clinton supporters, 257

in colonial New York, 124, 125, 181, 183, 187, 188, 192

and commercial expansion, 437

in early nineteenth century, 330, 339-40, 437, 487, 530

and economy, 192

in 1830s, 600, 607

entertainment for, 487, 1134

and evangelical religion, 530

in Hanover Square, 183

houses for, 188

immigrants as, 739-40

and land prices, 187

in late nineteenth century, 970, 974, 1057, 1134

as loyalists, 219

in mid-nineteenth century, 739-40, 845

and middle-class, 970, 974

and money, 308

and Panic of 1857, 845

and politics, 152, 181, 267

in post-revolutionary New York, 257, 267, 308

and resistance to British policies, 205

in revolutionary New York, 219, 229

in 1790s and early 1800s, 372

and transportation, 1057

voting by, 330

women as, 183

workplace of, 142. See also Department stores

Revenue Act (1764). See Sugar Act

Reviewing literature/plays, 684

Revolution of 1830, 567-68

Revolution (journal), 983–85, 989, 990

Revolution Settlement, 283

Revolutionary New York: blockade of, 251

British evacuate, 259-61

British occupation of, 245–59

British troops return to, 228-29, 231-44

burnings of, 241-42, 250

as center of British power in America, 246

collapse of government in, 223–24

corruption in, 251–52

fall of, 240-44

as headquarters for British troops, 228

population of, 245

port closed in, 224

Provincial Congress assumes control of, 223-24

social life in, 247-48, 249

and suspension of hostilities, 256, 257

Tory flight from, 224, 226, 227, 230

vulnerability of, 226, 234

Washington abandons, 241-42

Revolutions of 1848, 657, 762, 769, 895

Rhinelander Sugar House, 1084

Rhode Island, 28, 63, 121, 285, 292

Rhynder Street, 439

Rialto. see Theater

Richmond: in colonial New York, 91, 103-4, 128, 219-20

and Consolidation, 1220, 1234

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