West Virginia, organized and admitted, 279; lost to South, 313.
Whigs, campaign of 1836, 93; panic of 1837, 102, 108, 109; in 1840, 110; divided, 114; and Tyler, 115; and Texas, 128, 147; Independent Treasury, 151; Taylor for President, 155, 157; and Wilmot Proviso, 170; Convention of 1848, 171, 173; Southern and Taylor, 174; Southern, for Union, 178; secure Compromise of 1850, 181; Northwestern, join Republicans, 241; Eastern, and Know-Nothings, 242, 243, 264.
White, Hugh Lawson, revolt against Jackson, 93; candidate for President, 93.
Whitney, Asa, and Pacific Railroad, 204, 233.
Whittier, John G., lines on Webster, 180, 220.
Wilmot Proviso, and Northwest, 153; in Congress, 170.
Wirt, William, 17, 53; and anti-Masonic party, 67, 70.
Wisconsin, 87; settlement, 89, 90, 105, 106; made State, 198; Indians removed, 199, 205; Republican party in, 241; nullifies Fugitive Slave Law, 252; Democratic, 302.
Wise, Henry A., 67; supports Tyler, 116, 121; defeats Know Nothings, 243, 253; and John Brown raid, 258.
Women, position of, on frontier, 32; in factories, 210; life on farm, 212.
Yancey, William L., Oregon and Texas, 132; expansionist, 150; and crisis of 1850, 176; retirement in 1850, 181; and public education, 223, 261; for secession, 264; opposed to Davis, 312; death, 312.
End of Project Gutenberg's Expansion and Conflict, by William E. Dodd