Index I43Warehouse stores, 840
Warfare
among Mississippian Indians, 12
civilized, 139
European, 48
Indian, 45, 48
in medieval Europe, 15
War Hawks, 198, 214
War Industries Board (WIB), 621
War Labor Board, 690
War Labor Policies Board, 622
Warner, Sam Bass, 227
Warner, Susan, 290, 518
War of 1812, 198–204
British offensive in, 202
Crockett and, 264
events leading to, 196–198
independence and, 208
opponents of, 198
phases of, 201m
War of the Austrian Succession, 90
War of the League of Augsburg, 90
War of the Spanish Succession, 90
War on drugs, 836f
War on terror, 858–859
Warren, Earl, 757
Warren, Mercy Otis, 133n
Wars
colonial, 89–90, 92–93
between colonists and Indians,
39–40, 42, 90
Washington, Booker T., 538–540,
539 f, 579, 579–581
Washington, DC
as capital, 173n
in War of 1812, 202
Washington, George, 92f, 131, 163f
American Revolution and, 115
Bank of the United States and,
156–157
as commander of Continental
army, 115, 119–124, 127,
136–137
Constitutional Convention
and, 146
dentures of, 162f
Farewell Address of, 163–164
First Inaugural of, 154f
in French and Indian War, 92, 93
Genet affair and, 159
Jackson compared to, 250
as national hero, 136–137
as president, 148, 153–154
on Proclamation of 1763, 100
Second Continental Congress
and, 115
on Shays’s rebellion, 145
Whiskey Rebellion and, 161
Washington, Jesse, 579f
Washington, Lewis, 362
Washington, settlement of, 55
Washington, Treaty of, 586
Washington, William, 402
Washington Crossing the Delaware
(Leutze), 120f
Washington Globe(newspaper), 260
Water, transportation by, 235,
236, 238
Watergate scandal, 789–792
Watkins, Maurine, 644–645
Watson, Harry, 237
Watson, John B., 643
Watson, Tom, 543
Watts riots, 777–778, 777f
Wayland, Francis, 293
Wayne, Anthony, 161, 182
Wayne, John, 316–317
Wealth, concentration of, 473, 481
Wealth Against Commonwealth
(Lloyd), 474
Wealth disparities, 507
in Jacksonian America, 270
in late-nineteenth century,
473, 490
under Reagan, 809
in World War II, 717
Wealth of Nations(Smith), 471
Wealth Tax Act, 694–695
Weapons of mass destruction
(WMDs), 859
Weaver, James B., 543
Webb, Walter Prescott, 454
Webster, Daniel, 212f
1836 election and, 262
1840 election and, 263
Bank of the United States contro-
versy and, 253, 254
Compromise of 1850 and,
313–314
description of, 213
Harrison administration and, 266
sectionalism and, 252
South-West alliance and, 258
tariffs and, 216, 218
on Van Buren, 263
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 298
Webster, Grace Fletcher, 250
Webster, Noah, 137, 271
Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 298
Webster v. Reproductive Health
Services, 829
Wedgewood, Josiah, 224
Weeds, 25
Weir, John Ferguson, 231f
Weld, Dwight, 282
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 284Wellesley College, 513
Wellington, Duke of, 203, 204, 205
Wells, David A., 508
Wells, Josiah, 416f
Wesley, John, 86
West
alliance with South, 252, 258
canals and, 241
cattle and ranching in, 449–451,
453–454
Civil War in, 379–380, 380m
conquest of, 587
farming in, 445, 447
gold and silver in, 443–445
Indian wars in, 437–440
Jeffersonian policy and, 177
law enforcement in, 444
leaders in, in 19th century,
213–214
linking of East and, 341
post–Civil War, 436
railroads in, 447–449
settlement of, 162–163, 234–235,
441, 445, 447
transportation and, 235–236
West, Benjamin, 43f, 98
West Africa, 12–13
Western Germany, 742
Western territories, land ordinances
and, 135–136
Western Traffic Association, 460
Western Union Company, 460, 464
West Florida, 100
acquisition of, 206
purchase of, 178
West India Company, 42
West Indian tobacco, 33
West Indies, 21, 93
Alliance of 1778 and, 158
French interest in, 178–179
slavery in, 41
sugar trade and, 187
trade with, 159, 162
Westinghouse, George, 460, 470
Westmoreland, William C., 782
Weyler, Valeriano, 590–591
Whaling, 335
Wharton, Edith, 615, 656
Wheat, 12, 43, 61, 322, 341, 342,
447, 491
fall in price of, 542
prices, 550f
Wheeler, Edward, 452
Whig party
1840 election and, 263, 266
Crockett and, 265
decline of, 352, 354, 355
Democratic party and, 262f