background, choice of as general,
i22
on condition of Continental Army, 123-124, 125 Farewell Address of 1792, 151-152 on foundations of war, 105, 129 on France as ally, 124-125 on militia, 122-123 political policies, 151 on unity of government, 151-152 The Waste Land (Elliot), 287 Watergate scandal, 366-367 Waterhouse, Edward, 45-46, 57, 64 Watts riots, 353
Wells, Ida B., 205-206, 217, 219-222,
273
Western expansion
artistic portrayals of, 187, i88f, i93f deterioration of relations, 191 Emerson on, 186
indigenous populations in, 189-191 land treaties in, 191 Manifest Destiny, 164, 165, 187, 241 myth of, 186-187 Oregon Trail, 190 pioneer spirit concept, 187 railways in (See Railways) tribal legal status (citizenship, national existence), 191-192
West Virginia, 183 West Virginia, USS, 3iif Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (Palmer), 187, i88f Wharton, Edith, 264-265 Wheatley, Phillis, ii0f, 109-110, iii Wheelwright, John, 72 Whigs, i6i, 164
Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 191-192, 239 White, John, 23-24, 45 White supremacy, 203, 2i5f, 337-338. See also Civil rights movement; Ku Klux Klan; Racism Whitley, Hiram C., 206-207, 212-213 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 222 The Whole and True Discovereye of Terra Florida (Ribault), 20 William III (King of England), 78 Williams, Eunice, 90-91 Williams, Roger, 55, 72 Wilmot Proviso, i67f Wilson, James, 141 Wilson, Woodrow
arbitration role, WWI, 269 New Freedom concept, 264 Nobel Peace Prize award for, 274-275 vision of America’s future, 266, 274 Winthrop, John, 39, 52, 53, 57, 72 Wisconsin, 144 Wister, Owen, 232-233 Wolfe, Thomas, 287
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller),
267-268 Women
abortion rights, 372f, 371-372, 373 commoditization of in Jamestown, 43f, 42-43, 66 equal pay for, 370-371 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 371 movement, 20th century, 370 Moynihan Report, 371 portrayal of in film, movie industry, 296-297, 298-299^ 308 rights, fears of, 333-334 roles in American colonies, 87 voting rights (See Suffrage)
Woodstock, 364-365 Woolman, John, iii Woolworth lunch counter protest, 343 Works Progress Administration (WPA),
306
World War I
African-American military service in,
256-257, 272-273
America as arbiter in, 269 America’s entrance into, 269-271, 27if anti-German legislation, 271-272 ending of, 274-275 enforcement of conformity, 272, 275 Espionage Act of 1917, 272 legacy, 275, 277-278 outbreak of, 266-267 Sedition Act of 1918, 272 U-boat campaign, 269-271 Unknown Soldier, 276-277, 277f, 287 veterans, attack on, 301-302 World War II basis of, 310
Battle of Iwo Jima, 3iif, 322f, 321-322,
323
beginning of, 309
Blitzkrieg, 310
expansion of women’s opportunities in,
324-325
fascism, domestic vs. international,
325-326
Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings, 328, 33if
idealistic, practical motivations for, 321 Japanese American internment, 203, 305f, 320f, 319-320, 418 Japanese American service in Armed Forces, 319-320
nationalism, identity in, 325-326 Okinawa, 321-322 as opportunity for civil rights change, 3i8
opposition to, 323 Pacific Theatre generally, 323 patriotic propaganda, 318-319, 321 Pearl Harbor, 310, 3iif service of marginalized populations in Armed Forces, 320-321 as transitive force, 323-324 Wounded Knee, 238 Wyatt, Francis, 40-42 Wyoming, 190
Yalta conference, 328-329 Yeardley, George, 40-42 Yellow fever, 205 Yellow kid cartoon, 252f Yellowstone National Park, 427 Yorktown, 126 Yosemite National Park, 427 Youth culture, i960’s
challenges to, Kennedy on, 342-343 consumer spending, 342 counterculture movement, 359-360 hippies, 360 ideals of, 357
influences on, 341-342, 357-358 kitchen debate, Nixon/Krushchev, 342 overview, 364 rise of, 341