410 Index
Women
as candidates, 173
civil rights of, 100–104
in Congress, 204
discrimination in workplace,
103 –10 4
Equal Rights Amendment and,
101
gender-based discrimination
and, 102, 103–104
gender gap and, 125
in politics, 102–103
sexual harassment, 103–104
voting behavior, 125
voting right, 99–100, 190
wage discrimination, 104
women’s movement, 100–102,
14 5
Workplace discrimination. See
Employment discrimination
World War I, isolationist foreign
policy and, 338
World War II, 239, 334
atomic bombs dropped on Japan
and, 338
emergency power and fall of
France, 235
Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor, 338
Yalta Conference and, 338
Writ
of certiorari, 280
of habeas corpus, 84Y
Yalta Conference, 338
Year Books, 272
Yeltsin, Boris, 341
Your Right to Federal Records,
268
YouTube, 132, 134Washington, George, 157
Constitutional Convention and,
30, 31
slavery and drafting
Constitution, 33
Washington community, 233
Watergate break-in, 121, 236–237
Wave elections, 161
Wealthy/wealthy, paying more
taxes, 316
Welfare programs, federal grants
for, 60
Welfare reform, 48
block grants and, 60
control transferred to states,
58
West Germany, 338
Whig Party, 158
Whips, 214, 215
Whistle-Blower Protection Act,
263
White House, communicating
with, 244
White House Military Office, 240
White House Office, 239, 240
White primary, 95
White supremacy, 95–96
Whitman, Meg, 103
William the Conqueror, 272
Wilson, James, 30
Wilson, Woodrow, 13, 40, 230,
238
election of, without majority of
vote, 185, 226
election of 1912, 159–160, 166
League of Nations and, 322
Wind energy, 306
Winner-take-all electoral system,
164
Winner-take-all primary, 181–182
Wiretaps
roving, 86–87
warrantless, 87
Wolf v. Colorado, 68race and ethnicity, 123–125
religion and, 123
straight-ticket voting, 166–167
women, 125
Voting fraud, 186–187
Voting rights
African Americans, 94, 95, 99,
190, 191
age and, 190, 193
grandfather clause, 95
literacy tests, 95
poll taxes, 95
white primary, 95
women and, 100–101, 190
Voting Rights Act, 99, 191, 208
preclearance for voting
procedure changes, 62W
Wage discrimination, 104
War Department, 249
War on terrorism, 324–325
alien “removal courts,” 278
Bush Doctrine, 325
cooperation from allies sought
for, 230
enemy combatants and courts,
278–279
enemy combatants detainees,
278–279
federal courts and, 277–279
FISA court, 277–278
intelligence community and,
336
opposition to Bush Doctrine,
325
preemptive war, 325
War Powers Resolution, 228–229,
337
Warren, Earl, 85, 96, 286
Warren, Elizabeth, 200
Warren, Rick, 120
Wartime powers of president,
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