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INDEXOUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORYXYZ Affair with France, 82U.S. monetary policy, 79-80currency question, 192gold standard, 192See also Banking and finance;Federal Reserve BoardU.S. trade policyeconomic impact of War of 1812,86Embargo Act (1807), 84Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922),207Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), 207Massachusetts Bay Company“triangular U.S. trade policy,” 25McKinley tariff, 160, 191Native Americans with Europeansettlers, 15-16Non-Intercourse Act (1809), 84North American Free TradeAgreement, 317, 325protective tariffs, 112, 117, 152, 159slave trade, 19, 25, 133Underwood Tariff (1913), 198World Trade Organization (WTO),325USA Patriot Act, 334Utah territory, 136VVan Buren, Martin, 120Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 158Vermont, statehood (1791), 78Verrazano, Giovanni da, 10Versailles, Treaty of, 206Vespucci, Amerigo, 9VietnamFrench involvement, 284-285U.S. involvement, 285Viet Minh movement, 284Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Wash.,D.C.), 172-173Vietnam Warantiwar demonstrations, 248, 258,281, 288-289Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 287Kent State (Ohio) studentdemonstration, 288military draft, 288U.S. forces in, 246-247Villa, Francisco “Pancho,” 185VirginiaAntifederalists, 76colonial government, 29-30Declaration of Rights, 77education by private tutors, 28Jamestown colony, 10, 12-13, 16Resolutions (1798), 117secession from the Union, 142-143state constitution, 68-69Tidewater region plantationsettlements, 26, 28Virginia Company, 12, 18, 29-30Volcker, Paul, 291, 310Voting rightsfor African Americans, 273, 277church membership requirement,14Pennsylvania constitution, 69for women, 122Voting Rights Act (1965), 277WWade, Abdoulaye, 295Wallace, George, 288, 319Wallace, Henry, 319Wampanoag Indians, 13War of 1812, 85-86, 112Warren, Earl, 272Washington, Booker T., 178Washington, Georgeon abolition of slavery, 113as commander in AmericanRevolution, 60-62Constitutional Conventionpresiding officer (1787), 66-67, 71crossing the Delaware (1776), 62face of (Mount Rushmore), 170-171as first U.S. president, 77-78Long Island, battle of (1776), 61Mount Vernon plantation, home of,170-171presidential oath of office, 77retirement from presidency, 82at Valley Forge (Pennsylvania), 62as Virginia militia commander, 33Yorktown, British surrender, 46-47Washington Monument (Wash., D.C.),175Water Quality Improvement Act, 282Wattenberg, Ben, 337Webster, Daniel, 120, 136Welch, Joseph, 236Weld, Theodore Dwight, 134Welfare state. See Social reformsWelles, Gideon, 143“The West.” See Westward expansionWest, Benjamin, 39Western Union, 158Westward expansioncowboy life and “The Wild West,”180frontier settlers’ life, 123-124Homestead Act (1862), 124, 152,179, 180homesteading in the last frontier/”The West,” 126, 179-180Louisiana Purchase and, 83-84map of, 127Northwest Ordinance (1787), 71,73, 135in Oklahoma Territory, 101problems of, 53, 70-71Whig Party, 119-121, 137-138, 152, 153Whitefield, George, 29Whitney, Eli, 114Wigglesworth, Rev. Michael, 28Will, George, 308Williams, Roger, 14, 41Wilson, James, 72Wilson, WoodrowFourteen Points for WWI armistice,205League of Nations and, 205-206portrait of, 108as president of U.S., 198-199, 204-206presidential elections (1912 and1916), 205, 328relations with Mexico, 185U.S. neutrality policy, 204-205Winthrop, John, 13, 309“Witch hunt,” origin of the term, 35Womenconstitutional council(Afghanistan) delegates, 294education in the home arts, 27, 122labor unions and, 193no political rights, 69role of first lady, 324role of Native American, 8workers in war production (“Rosiethe Riveter”), 222working conditions, 193Women’s rights, 122-123abortion issue, 308Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),279feminism and, 278-279Married Women’s Property Act, 122in Pennsylvania colony, 18state constitutions and, 69Women’s rights movement, 90, 248,278-279Women’s suffrage, 90, 122march on Washington (1913), 188-189“Woodstock Generation” (1960s), 249,281364365