United States History Student Edition

Utah Territory • Women’s Rights Convention

Northwest Ordinance, 180; Northwest Territory, 178; political parties, 248; presidency, 302; as President, c240, ptg240 , 241, ptg241 ; ratifying Constitution, p195, q196 ; Second Continental Congress, 130; soldier enlistment terms, 141; Valley Forge, 145–46, ptg145 ; Washington Crossing the Delaware River (Emanuel Leutz ), ptg143 ; Whiskey Rebellion, 245 Delaware River (Emanuel Leutz) , ptg143 Washington-on-the-Brazos , 330 water frame , 277, 362 Wayne, Anthony , 152, 245 Webster, Daniel : representing the North, 285; Second Bank of the United States, 308; Secretary of State, 307, 309; Treaty of New Echota, 313 Webster-Ashburton Treaty , c304 , 310 web URLs , HT15–HT16 “We Cross the Prairie as of Old” (J. G. Whittier and M. D. Sullivan) , 336 West, Benjamin , ptg153 West, the . See American West. West Africa, slave trade and, 41 Western African Empires , 42–44, m44 Western region : geography of, 4; Native American peoples in, m5 , 18 West Indies , 45 westward expansion , ptg175 ; issues of slavery over, 413; Land Act of 1800, 175; Native Americans and, 302; Northwest Ordinance, 175; Ordinance of 1785, m174 , 175, 177, q17 8; Oregon Trail , ptg301 ; roads to the West, 280; Santa Fe Trail, mHT25 ; settling, 282; Spain and France role in, 253–54; transportation and, 363–64; wagon trains, ptg299 ; Webster-Ashburton Treaty, c304 ; Wilderness Road, 280. See also American West. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Emanuel Leutze) , ptg327 wetlands , 4–5 whaling , 89, 97, 109 Wheatley, Phillis , 160, ptg160 Whigs , 424; antislavery, 477; election of 1836, 308–9; Washington Crossing the

election of 1840, 309, ptg309 ; Harrison, William Henry, 309

Utah Territory , 344 Ute people , 18 utopi a, 393 V Valley Forge , p106, q106 , 145–46, ptg145 , 146, ptg146, m151 Van Buren, Martin , 308–10, 313, 332, 422 Vann, James , p322 Vassar College , 357, 398, p398 Vel á zquez, Loreta Janeta , 447 Venezuela , 287 Venice, Italy , 37, m38 Vermont , 282, 302 Verrazano, Giovanni de , 52 Vesey, Denmark , 384 Vespucci, Amerigo , ptg33, q33 , 46, m46 , 56, q56 , 67 Vicksburg, Mississippi , 435, m435 , 459 Victoria, Guadalupe , 329 vigilantes , 342 Vikings , 44 Vincennes , 150, 151, m151 Vinland , 44 Virginia : constitutions of, 188; free Virginia , 434, ptg434 Virginia colony , m86 ; establishment of, 85; indentured servants in, 85; slavery established in, 85; tobacco, 85, ptg8 5; Virginia company changing to, 70 Virginia Company : Bacon’s Rebellion, 86–87, ptg87 ; becoming royal colony, 70; General Assembly, 109; headright, 70; House of Burgesses, formed, c68 , 70, 109, 168; Jamestown Colony, 70, p70 , 108; joint-stock company, 70; land grants to the Pilgrims, 71–72; slavery in, 100 Virginia Gazette , q100 Virginia Plan , 186–87 Virginia Resolutions , 250 “Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty” (Thomas Jefferson) , q204 Voice of Industry (Sarah Bagley) , q372, q373 voting rights : for African American men, 184, 205, 483; age eighteen, 206; in early United States, ptg210 ; Fifteenth Amendment, 205; in first state constitutions, 172; grandfather clauses, 489; literacy test, 489; African Americans in, 184; ratifying Constitution, 194; secession of, 429, m430

Nineteenth Amendment, 206, p206, 397; poll tax, 489; women, 206, p206 W

Whiskey Rebellion , 245 White, John , 64, 69

Whitefield, George , 93 White League , crt475 Whitman, Marcus and Narcissa , 324, ptg325, q339 Whitman, Walt , 395, ptg402, q474 Whitman Mission , 324, ptg325 , 339 Whitney, Eli , c240 , 277–78, 378, 412 Whittier, John Greenleaf , 336 “Wide Awake Yankee Doodle” , q375 Wigfall, Louis , q379 wilderness fighting , 154 Wilderness Road , 280, 302 Wilmot, David , 421 Wilmot Proviso , 421 Wilson, James , 193 Winslow, Edward , q78 Winthrop, John , 73 Wisconsin , m174 women, role in society : Abigail Adams view of, q147 ; in American colonies, 93; during Civil war, 445–47; in Iroquois League, 19–20; in Northern states in mid-1800s, 369; in Revolutionary War, 141; during Revolutionary War, ptg155 , 158 women in the workforce : Barrett, Amy Coney, 208; battlefield nurses, 446–47; career choices in mid-1800s, 398; Oberlin College, c360 , 394; O’Connor, Sandra Day, 208, p208 Ginsburg, Ruth Bader , 208; Kagan, Elena, 208 Sotomayor, Sonia , 208 women’s movement : Daughters of Temperance, 396; education for, 397; growth of, 396; Truth, Sojourner, 397; women’s property laws, 397; Women’s Rights Convention, 396 women’s rights and suffrage : Anthony, Susan B., 396; Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 395–96; Mott, Lucretia, 395-96; Nineteenth Amendment, 206, p206 , 397; Seneca Falls Convention, c360 , 395–96, ptg396 ; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 395, ptg395 ; Truth, Sojourner, 397; Women’s Rights Convention, 396; Wyoming, 396 Women’s Rights Convention , 396 Index A71 Willard, Emma , 397 Williams, Roger , 74 Willkie, Wendell L. , 707

Wade-Davis Bill , 480 wagon trains , ptg253, ptg299 Walden; or, Life in the Wood s Walker, Mary Edwards , 446 Wampanoag people , 73, ptg73 , 74, 78 War Democrats , 448 War Hawks , 267, 270 War of 1812 , 235, ptg235 , 265–66, m269 ; Battle of Lake Champlain, 270; Battle of Lake Erie, The (William Henry Powell), ptg267 ; Battle of New Orleans, 269, 270, ptg270 ; Battle of the Thames, 268; Battle of Tippecanoe, 267; beginning of, c240 , 267–68; Dolley Madison, 268, ptg268 ; end of, 269–70, 302–3; Fort McHenry, 269; ill prepared for, 267–68; Lake Erie naval forces, 268; military deaths in, g411 ; national pride, 270; Native Americans, 302; Perry, Oliver Hazar, ptg267 , 268; Prevost, George, 269–70; (Henry David Thoreau) , q400

Treaty of Ghent, 270; Washington, D.C., 269 War of Independence . See Revolutionary War. Warren, Joseph , 128 Warren, Mercy Otis , 119, 198 Warren Bridge , ptg363 Washington, D.C. : Banneker,

Benjamin, 237; location of, 237, 244; as U.S. Capital, c171 ; War of 1812, 269

Washington, George , ptg246 ; African American troops,

142–43; Battle of Long Island, 142; Battle of Princeton, 143; Battle of Trenton, 143; Battle of Yorktown, m151 , 152, ptg152 , 169, ptg289 ; British evacuating Boston, 130, ptg130 ; capital city location, 237, 244; Constitutional Convention, 185, ptg185 , 239; Continental Army , commander of, 130; dentures of, p236 ; Farewell Address, 246; Federalist, 193; First Continental Congress, 127; Fort Necessity, 112; in French and Indian War, 111–12, ptg111 ; hair style, 166, ptg166 ; isolationism, 603; leadership of, 130, 153–54; Newburgh Conspiracy, 153–54;