Penguin History of the United States of America (150 page)

W.-earners,
616
,
617

Wagner, Sen. Robert Ferdinand,
534

Wagner Act,
535
,
546
,
548

Wales, Welsh,
4
,
14
,
17
,
76n
,
95n
,
394
,
402

Walker, Mayor James (‘Jimmy’),
503n
,
531

‘Walking’ Purchase,
61

Wall Street, New York,
385
,
389
,
390
,
391
,
392
,
393
,
429
,
430
,
462–4
,
470
,
477
,
507–9
,
510
,
517
,
525
,
528
,
543
,
609

Wallace, George,
661
,
662
,
664

Wallace, Henry A.,
537–8
,
596

on baby pigs,
537

as Vice-Pres.,
538
,
582
,
599

Wallowa valley, Oregon,
69

Walpole, Horace, junior,
quoted
,
141
,
142
,
180–81

Walpole, Horace, senior,
quoted
,
73

Walpole, Sir Robert,
74
,
76
,
79
,
109
,
113

Walsh, Sen. David Ignatius,
559

War, as a factor in history,
405
,
435–6

War

Thirty Years,
12
,
17

English Civil,
12
,
14
,
48

Second Dutch,
81

King Philip’s,
53
,
57
,
63

of the Austrian Succession (‘King George’s war’),
76
,
119
,
130

Seven Years (‘French and Indian’),
66
,
76
,
79
,
80
,
85–6
,
93
,
109
,
110–11
,
124
,
150
,
168
,
180
,
181–2
,
192
; Americans in,
130

Cherokee,
119
,
221

of the A. Revolution (‘of A. Independence’),
112
,
132
,
135
,
149
,
165–6
,
167–85
,
188
,
188–9n
,
196
,
250
,
259
,
378

Creek,
66

French revolutionary,
260

of 1812,
227
,
253–5
,
266
,
269
,
276
,
319
,
437

Mexican,
56n
,
240
,
240
,
297
,
316
,
319
,
436
,
441

American Civil,
50
,
68
,
167
,
204
,
209
,
212
,
230
,
236
,
243
,
244
,
245
,
268
,
269
,
273
,
284
,
288
,
290
,
293
,
358
,
362
,
363
,
365
,
370
,
377
,
378
,
406
,
407
,
425
,
436
,
438
,
442
,
468
,
515
,
615
; causes of,
310
; outbreak,
314
; course,
315–45
; names of battles in,
321n
; casualties in,
345
; and rise of capitalism,
383–6

Spanish-American,
436–41
,
450
,
468

Russo-Japanese,
442
,
605

First World
(see also
War loans
),
377
,
438
,
445
,
450
,
496
,
512
,
526
,
544
,
552
,
561
,
607
; and blacks,
619
; Bolshevik Revolution and,
478
; US entry,
448
,
558
; immigration and,
406
,
478–9
; outbreak,
462
,
464
,
467
; the South and,
616
,
622
; 1930s inquest on,
555

Second World,
212–13
,
214
,
361
,
484n
,
502
,
513
,
517n
,
527
,
529
,
540
,
553
,
554
,
586
,
599
,
637
,
650
,
657
,
661–2
,
663
,
672
; w. agencies,
569
; Office of War Mobilisation,
569
; and blacks,
621–5
; causes of,
551–2
; US entry,
566
; home front,
566–70
; and Indo-China,
647
; and the South,
621

cold
see
Cold war

Korean,
590
,
604–7
,
609
,
611
,
623
,
647–8
,
651
,
657
,
658
,
662

Vietnam,
608
,
613
,
642
,
667
,
669
,
670
,
672
,
682
,
691
; Cambodia, invasion of,
661–2
; casualties,
656
,
663
; ‘domino theory’ and,
651
; My Lai massacre,
656
; origins,
646–53
; US participation,
653–64
; Tet offensive,
659
; Tonkin Gulf, incident and resolutions,
653

Gulf War (1991),
693

War debts,
498–9
,
507
,
512
,
560

War Debts Commission,
499

War Department,
356

‘War Hawks’,
254
,
266

War Industries Board (1917–19),
477
,
531

War loans,
487

Warren, Chief Justice Earl,
213
,
568
,
626

Washington, Booker T.,
371
,
415
,
420

Washington, DC (
see also
White House
), city of,
210–11
,
254
,
255
,
269
,
276
,
305
,
316
,
319
,
321
,
322
,
326
,
332
,
336
,
341
,
345
,
355
,
378
,
451
,
479
,
499
,
516
,
521
,
525
,
538
,
550
,
634
,
638
,
644

Capitol,
521

Capitol Hill,
461

Watergate building,
665

Washington, Gen. George
(Pres. 1789–97),
67
,
104
,
105
,
106
,
156
,
162
,
221
,
262
,
267
,
288
,
321
,
340
,
378
,
444
,
461
,
468
,
485
,
492
,
544
,
549
,
597
,
608
,
684

character,
170–71
335

in Stamp Act crisis,
132n

takes command,
166

as Revolution general,
169
,
170–71
,
178
,
179–80
,
182–3
,
184
,
185

at Constitutional Convention,
195
,
196–8

and ratification of Constitution,
200–201
,
203

as President,
204
,
209
,
210
,
249
,
250
,
252
,
256–61

death,
264

quoted
, on T. Paine,
173
; ‘grey and blind’,
185
; on raising a standard,
186
; on postwar recovery,
188
; on Shays’s rebellion,
190–91
; on Georgia,
201
; Farewell Address,
249
,
252
,
256
; (
mentioned
,
437
,
647
);
also quoted
,
120
,
150
,
167
,
171
,
183
,
196
,
201

Washington
, migration ship,
396

Washington Naval Conference,
495
,
499
,
562

treaty,
553

Washington Post
,
666

Watergate affair,
665–8
,
669
,
671
,
672
,
691

Watson, Thomas Edward,
428

Watt, James,
689

Wayne, John,
657
,
684

Weatherboarding, Essex,
48

Weaver, Gen. James Baird,
426–7
,
428
,
431

Webster, Daniel,
231
,
266
,
273
,
277
,
299

Second Reply to Hayne, quoted
,
318

Weld, Theodore,
293

Welfare state, American,
540
,
638
,
642
,
673
,
690

Welles, Gideon,
319
,
322
,
354

on Emancipation Proclamation,
330

West, the American,
219–48
,
270
,
271
,
272
,
274
,
301
,
305
,
393
,
396
,
397
,
407
,
417n
,
421–5

in Civil War,
335–6
,
340

and civil rights movement,
637

West Indies
see
Caribbean

West Point, NY (US Military Academy),
316
,
325
,
336
,
656

West Side Story
,
641n

Western lands,
120
,
191–2

Western Trail,
379

Western Union Co.,
565

Westmoreland, Gen. William,
655
,
656
,
658–9

Whaling
see
Fishing

Whately, Thomas,
114

Wheat,
305
,
422
,
423
,
424
,
443
,
482
,
513
,
515
,
537
,
567

Wheeling, West Virginia,
598

Whig beliefs,
134
,
144
,
154
,
164
,
175
,
177
,
196

Whig Party (American),
236
,
241
,
275–9
,
297–301
passim
,
302
,
303
,
304
,
308
,
311
,
357
,
370
,
409
,
426

Conscience and Cotton Whigs,
300–301

Whigs, American
see
Patriots

Whigs, English,
77–8
,
79
,
111
,
154
,
164

and Parliament,
185

Whipple, Bishop Henry Benjamin,
64

Whisky rebellion,
259
,
425

White, Walter,
620

White Citizens Councils,
627
,
628

White House,
210
,
228
,
254
,
273
,
332
,
408
,
455
,
489
,
491
,
517
,
522
,
523n
,
535n
,
553
,
569
,
664
,
666
,
667
,
673
,
690

‘that man in the W.H.’,
528
,
555

White Pine Acts,
118

White primary,
371n
,
620
,
624

White supremacy,
360
,
363
,
366
,
369
,
371–2
,
548
,
622
,
627
,
629
,
632
,
635
,
637

and class,
640

Whitefield, Rev. George,
91
,
91n

Whites, Northern,
640–41

Whites, Southern,
287–8
,
308
,
339
,
362–5
,
371–2
,
415
,
625
,
636

Whitman, Walt,
297

Whitney, Eli,
229
,
286
,
378

Wilderness, battle of the,
340
,
437

Wilderness Road,
223–4

Wiley, Harvey,
454

Wilkes, Capt. Charles, USN,
324
,
325

Wilkes, John,
136
,
154
,
155
,
164
,
211