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Weapons (continued)
bombs as, 733–735,
748, 758, 760; biological,
871; disarmament
of, 648, 653, 783–784;
gun-control laws on, 863;
inspections, 872–873;
lend-lease of, 708–710,
711; manufacturing of,
262–263, 698–699, 710,
714, 717–718, 735, 738;
of mass destruction, 873;
mass-produced, 262–263;
nuclear, 753, 758–759,
760, 779, 783–784, 793,
797–798, 847, 873;
rearmament, 757–758,
762–763, 844–845; right
to bear arms, 168
Weathermen, 814
Weaver, James B., 453, 462,
529
Weaver, Robert C., 803
Webster, Daniel: Bank of
United States charter
renewal by, 242; as lawyer,
221; quotation by, 170,
337; on secession, 337,
343–344, 349; as Secretary
of State, 320, 323;
Seventh of March speech,
343–344; as Whig, 244,
319–320
Webster, Noah, 281
Webster v. Reproductive
Health Services, 851
Welch, James, 896
Weld, Th eodore Dwight,
310–311
Welfare, 674, 682–683, 824,
843, 864–865, 885, 894
Welfare Reform Bill (1996),
864–865, 885
Wells, David A., 441
Wells, Ida B., 505
Welty, Eudora, 788
Wesley, John, 31
West: African American
migration to, 719–720;
agriculture in, 266–267,
519–521, 523, 526–528;
Alaska purchase expansion
into, 432–433;
American Revolution
battles in, 137; buff alo in,
12, 254, 513, 516; cattle
ranching in, 518–519;
Civil War battles in,
403–405; economic policies
in, 217, 241–242, 244;
expansion/migration to,
100, 198–199, 217, 252–
256, 324–335, 352–355,
392, 432–433, 511–526;
exploration of, 198–199,
325; frontier in, 522–523;
gold rush/mining in,
340–341, 392, 517–518;
immigration in, 559, 590,
591, 890–891, 892; land
policies in, 149, 150–151,
217, 366, 392, 459–460,
519–520, 574–575; landscape
of, 3–4, 254–255;
Louisiana Purchase
expanding into, 198–199;
Native American relations
in, 15, 204–205, 239–241,
460, 513–517, 523, 524;
shift ing demographics
in, 719–720, 744–745,
892–893; statehood in,
341, 521–522; transportation
in, 268–272, 352–353,
459–466, 518–519; water
in, 521, 574, 678, 857. See
also specifi c states by name
West, Benjamin, 83
West Germany, 754, 757,
780, 793, 853. See also
Germany
West Indies: blockade runners
in, 398; colonization
of, 27–29, 37; European
discovery of, 10–11, 13;
slavery in, 59, 74, 306,
310, 312, 322, 327; trade
with, 75–76, 151–152;
Virgin Islands in, 590
West Virginia, 379
Weyler, “Butcher,” 545
Wharton, Edith, 638
Wheatley, Phillis, 83
Wheeler, Burton, 709, 713
Wheeler, Joseph, 550
Wheeler; United States v., 833
Whigs: in 1836 election, 245;
in 1840 election, 250–252;
in 1844 election, 325–327;
in 1848 election, 339–340;
in 1852 election, 348;
American Patriots as, 129;
birth of as political party,
244–245; British (radical),
103–104, 114, 117;
platforms of, 244–245,
246–247, 252; presidents
as (Harrison & Tyler),
318–321
Whipple, Prince, 119
Whiskey Rebellion, 172
Whistler, James, 506–507
White, John, 63
White, William Allen, 583
Whitefi eld, George,
79–80, 310
Whiteman, Paul, 637
Whitewater scandal, 867
Whitman, Walt, 293–294, 500
Whitney, Eli, 261, 262–263
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 289,
294, 344, 360
Whyte, William H., Jr., 770
Wigglesworth, Michael, 39
Wilberforce, William,
310, 313
Wildcat currency, 244, 246
Wilder, L. Douglas, 895
“Wild West” shows, 509
Wiley, Harvey W., 564
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 593
Wilkinson, James, 200
Willard, Emma, 282
Willard, Frances E., 506,
570–571
William and Mary, College
of, 64, 78
William III, King, 44
Williams, Roger, 39–40
Williams, Tennessee, 788
Williams, William Carlos, 787
Willkie, Wendell L., 706–708
Wilmot, David/Wilmot
Proviso, 335, 337
Wilson, August, 896
Wilson, Sloan, 770
Wilson, (Th omas) Woodrow:
on American enterprise,
582; anti-trust regulations
by, 588–589; banking system
reform by, 587–588;
education of, 497; foreign
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