I44 Index
Whig party (continued)
election of 1844 and, 304
election of 1848 and, 310
rise of, 260, 262
Whiskey Rebellion, 161
Whiskey Ring affair, 424
Whiskey tax, 158, 160f, 161, 175
Whistler, James A. McNeill, 521, 523f
White, Andrew D., 523
White, Canvass, 239
White, Hugh Lawson, 262
White, Richard, 446
Whitefield, George, 86, 86f, 87, 505
White flight, 839
White House, destruction of in War
of 1812, 202
White House tapes, 791f
White settlers, in Indian Territory,
162–163
Whitewater scandal, 850
Whitman, Walt, 289–290, 289f,
507–508, 521
Whitney, Eli, 232f, 233
WIB.SeeWar Industries
Board (WIB)
The Wide, Wide World (Warner), 290
Wigglesworth, Michael, 67
Williamson, Joel, 413
Wilderness, Battle of, 391, 393f
Wilderness Road, 236
Wiley, Harvey W., 572
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 629
Wilkins, Roy, 719
Wilkinson, James, 186
William of Orange, 68
William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
(West), 43f
Williams, Eunice, 91
Williams, Euphemia, 346
Williams, Roger, 37–38
Willkie, Wendell L., 689,
706–707, 730
Wills, Helen, 650
Wilmot, David, 310, 384
Wilmot Proviso, 310, 314
Wilson, Charles, 812
Wilson, Edith, 634f
Wilson, Woodrow
African Americans and, 581
election of 1912 and,
575–576, 581
election of 1916 and, 618–619
Fourteen Points of, 628–629,
631, 633
John Hopkins University and, 512
League of Nations and, 628–629,
631–636
moral diplomacy of, 612–613
New Freedom and, 575–578
at Paris Peace Conference,
629–631, 629f
as president, 576–579
as professor, 487
stroke of, 633, 634f
suffrage movement and, 567
World War I and, 611, 613,
616–620, 622–624
Winder, William H., 202
Winfrey, Constantine, 402
Winfrey, Oprah, 402
Winthrop, John, 37, 38, 65, 86
Wirt, William, 258
Wirz, Henry, 405
Wisconsin Idea, 563
Witches, of Salem, 68–70, 76–77
Wives
in 1920s, 641
during Great Depression, 680
in mid-nineteenth century,
271, 274
during World War II, 722
Wolfe, James, 93, 94, 96
Wolfe, Jeffrey, 843
Wollaston, John, 86f
Woman’s Committee of the Council
of National defense, 625
Woman suffrage movement,
565–567, 566m
Women
in 1920s, 641, 643, 645, 646–647
abolitionism and, 282, 283–284
alcohol consumption by, 280
during American Revolution,
122 n, 133–134
in antebellum South, 324
during Civil War, 390–391
in colonies, 54, 56, 64, 66
Confederate, 428–429
education of, 133, 291f
on frontier, 447
higher education for, 513
indentured, 58
middle-class, 488
in mid-nineteenth century, 271,
274, 275–276
“new,” 646–647
New Deal and, 699–700
pioneer, 301, 303–304
in postwar years, 826–827
professional careers for, 513
puritan, 66, 70
reformers, 269
as settlement workers, 506–507
southern, 390–391
spectator sports and, 503–504
as teachers, 292
in workforce, 488, 624–625, 625f,
646, 720–722, 826–827during World War I, 624–625
in World War I, 715f
in World War II, 713, 720–722
writers, 290
Women and Economics(Gilman), 517
Women in Industry Service, 625
Women in the Nineteenth Century
(Fuller), 284
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, 720
Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, 652
Women’s rights
in 1920s, 647
in mid-nineteenth century,
283–285
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz(Baum),
544 f
Wood, Thomas Waterman, 412f
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 672
Woods, Robert A., 506, 507, 507f
Woods, Rosemary, 791f
Woodson, Carter G., 580
Woodstock, 779f
Wool Act, 84
Woolly mammoths, 4, 4f
Woolworth’s, 675
Worcester v. Georgia, 256
Wordsworth, William, 274
Workday, 502, 619
Workers
in 1920s, 641
child, 225, 228, 488f
immigrants as, 228, 229–230
in late-nineteenth century,
487–488
layoffs of, 808–809
skilled, 487–488
unskilled, 331, 334, 487–488
women, 228–229, 229f, 488,
624–626, 720–722, 826–827
during World War I, 622
Work hours, 334, 478, 563, 564
Working class
See alsoLabor unions
in 1920s, 641
attitudes of, 490
family life, 488–489
in late-nineteenth century,
488–489
making of, 226–227
in mid-nineteenth century, 271,
332–334
radicalism and, 559
Working conditions, in Jacksonian
America, 270
Working day, length of, 487
Working women, 228–229, 229f
Works Progress Administration
(WPA), 691–692