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Union League, 429
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR). See
Soviet Union
Union Pacifi c Railroad, 438,
460
Unions. See Labor unions
Unitarian Church, 277, 278
United Kingdom. See Britain
(Great Britain, England,
United Kingdom)
United Nations: formation of,
747, 750–751, 752–753;
Korean War response of,
763; Persian Gulf response
of, 856; weapons inspections
by, 873
United Negro Improvement
Association, 638
United States Housing Authority
(USHA), 682
United States Steel Company,
684–685
United States v. Wheeler, 833
Universities. See Colleges
and universities; specifi c
schools by name
University of California,
813, 832
University of Michigan,
875
University of Mississippi,
798
University of Pennsylvania,
83
University of Virginia, 282,
290
Updike, John, 787
Urbanization, 255, 482, 484–
486, 492–493, 503–505,
522. See also Cities
U.S. Sanitary Commission,
392
U.S. Steel Corporation, 573,
579, 882
U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 447
USA Patriot Act (2001),
871–872
USHA (United States
Housing Authority), 682
USSR (Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics). See
Soviet Union
Utah, 279–280, 518, 521
Vallandigham, Clement L.,
406–407
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
118
Van Buren, Martin, 245–247,
250–251, 264, 340
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 462,
464, 468
Vanderbilt, William H., 464
Vaudeville, 509
Veblen, Th orstein, 563
Védrine, Hubert, 876
Venereal diseases, 610, 814
Venezuela, 234, 314,
541–542
Venturi, Robert, 898
Vermont, 166, 211–213
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 12,
14–15
Vesey, Denmark, 237, 309
Veterans, 451, 647, 662–663,
741
Veterans Administration,
741, 745
Veterans Bureau, 647, 650
Vetoes, presidential, 242
Vice presidency, 181. See also
specifi c vice presidents by
name
Vicksburg battle, 404
Vidal, Gore, 787
Vietnam: communism in,
779–780, 807; immigrants
from, 831; independence
of, 558; Vietnam War
impact on, 779–780,
794–796, 807–810,
819–820, 830–831
Vietnam War: American
involvement in, 779–780,
794–796, 801–802, 807–
812, 818–820, 825–827,
830–831; beginning of,
779–780; Cambodia and,
820, 826–827; economic
impact of, 818; elections
during, 781–782, 785–
786, 801–802, 809–812,
825–826; end of, 831; Laos
and, 793–794; protesting
against, 808–809, 810–
811, 813–814, 819–820;
Soviet/China détente
impacting, 820–822
Villa, Franciso “Pancho,”
593–592
Virginia: Civil War battles
in, 410–411; colonization
of, 17, 21–27, 53–54;
committees of correspondence
in, 111; Constitution
ratifi cation by, 162;
emancipation denied in,
315; Harpers Ferry, 369;
House of Burgesses in,
26–27, 111; Jamestown
settlement in, 17, 21–23;
map of, 22; Richmond,
395, 397, 410–411; secession
of, 379; states’ rights
resolution by, 185; Statute
for Religious Freedom,
144; tobacco industry
in, 25–27, 54–56, 74;
University of Virginia,
282, 290; Virginia Plan,
156; western lands of, 149;
Yorktown, 138–139. See
also South
Virginia Company, 21, 23–24,
26–27
Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom, 144
Virgin Islands, 590
Vocational education, 497
Volstead Act (1919), 627
Voltaire, 89
von Gentz, Friedrich, 139
von Metternich,
Klemens, 412
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 787
von Steuben, Baron, 119,
133, 137
Voter Education Project, 798
Voting rights: for African
Americans, 427, 428–429,
446, 454–455, 798–799,
804–805; age limit on,
820; for laboring men,
264; political participation
through, 235–236; progressivist
goals on, 565;
for propertied, white men,
86, 186; for women, 145,
287, 428, 504–505, 518,
565, 568, 605–606, 645
Voting Rights Act (1965),
804–805
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