I42 Index
USSKearsarge, 389f
USSMaine, 591–592, 592f, 606f
USSOregon, 593f
USSPrinceton, 300
USSSan Jacinto, 379
USSWest Virginia, 718f
Utah, statehood for, 315
Utah Territory, 278
Ute Indians, 24
Utility companies
city bosses and, 541
competition and monopoly
in, 470
Utopian communities, 276–278, 277f
Utrecht, Treaty of, 90
Vallandigham, Clement L., 378
Valley Forge, 123–124, 134
Van Buren, Martin
in 1832 election, 262
in 1836 election, 262
in 1840 election, 263, 266
Bank of the United States contro-
versy and, 253, 254
description of, 213
election of 1844 and, 304
election of 1848 and, 311
on Jackson, 259
portrait of, 213f
presidency of, 262–263
as secretary of state, 251, 255
Vance, Vivian, 826
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 242, 459
Vanderbilt, George, 471f
Vanderbilt, William, 490
Van Devanter, Willis, 696
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 42
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 654–655,
655 f
Varieties of Religious Experience
(James), 524
Vasco da Gama, 20m
Vassar College, 513, 647
Vaudeville, 502
Vaux, Calvert, 290
Veblen, Thorstein, 487, 514
Velasquez, Janeta, 390f
Venezuela, 590, 599, 606f
Vergennes, Comte de, 123, 127,
128, 129
Verona, Congress of, 207
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 27
Versailles, Treaty of, 629–631,
634, 636
Vesey, Denmark, 258, 327
Veterans
World War I, 679
World War II, 739
Veteran’s pensions, post–Civil
War, 532
Vetoes, presidential, 251, 253–254
Vichy government in, 723
Vicksburg campaign, 387–389,
388 m, 393f
Victorian courtship rituals, 614–615
Victorian culture, 487
Victory Loan drives, 622
Video games, 838
Vietcong, 768, 782
Vietminh, 751
Vietnam, China and, 751
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 2f, 3
Vietnam War, 781m
end of, 799
Ford and, 799
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
and, 780
Johnson and, 780–782
Kennedy and, 765, 768–769
major events of, 782f
My Lai Massacre, 785f
Nixon and, 783–785, 788
opposition to, 782
search and destroy missions in,
780 f, 781m
Tet offensive in, 782
Vietnamization of, 783–784
Villa, Francisco “Pancho,” 613
Villages, sub-Saharan Africa, 13
Villard, Henry, 460
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 580
Vincent, John Carter, 748
Vincent, John H., 525
Violence
against African Americans, 579f
crime and, 862–863
popular culture and, 837–838
Virginia, 31
colony of, 32–34, 44–45m, 56
cotton in, 233
ratification of Constitution
by, 152
slave revolt in, 258
slavery in, 132
Spanish explorers in, 23
tobacco cultivation in, 322
Virginia City, Nevada, 444
Virginia Company, 35
Virginia Plan, 147
Virginia Tech shootings, 862–863
Virgin Mary, 24f
Virgin of Guadalupe, 24f
Virtual representation, 100–101, 131
Virtual worlds, 844
Visible saints, 38, 39, 67
Vocational schools, 491Volker, Paul, 665
Voltaire, 88
Voluntary associations, 276
Volunteerism, 554–555
Voter turnout, 246–247, 249, 250m
in 1840 election, 263
for presidential elections, 528–529
Voting rights
of African Americans, 537
Fifteenth Amendment and, 414
Fourteenth Amendment and,
409–410, 414
intimidation of black voters
and, 423
for women, 565–567, 647
Voting Rights Act (1965), 776, 776fWabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
v. Illinois, 476, 477f
Wabash and Erie Canal, 241
Wade, Benjamin, 378, 405f, 406
Wade-Davis bill, 406
Wages
Ford and, 661
gender differences in, 646–647
minimum, 687, 697
working-class, 488–489
during World War II, 716–717
Wagner Act, 694, 695f
Wagon trail, 300–301, 302m
Wainwright Building, 502
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta, 390f
Wald, Lillian, 506, 507f, 680
Walden(Thoreau), 287
Walden Pond, 286f
Walker, David, 282
Walker, Robert J., 359
Walker, William, 348
Wallace, George C., 783
Wallace, Henry A., 744
Wallace, Henry C., 666
Wallace, Lew, 518
Walls, Josiah, 416
Walmart, 457–458, 472
Walpole, Sir Robert, 85, 97
Walsh, Frank P., 622
Walsh, Thomas J., 667
Waltham Watch factory, 331f
Walton, Sam, 840
Wampanoag Indians, 39–40
Wampum, 48f
Wanamaker, John, 471, 557
Wanghia, Treaty of, 588
War bonds, 713, 717
War debts, from World War I, 674
Ware, James E., 497
War economy, in World War II,
716–717