Vaca, Cabeza de
Vail, Alfred
Valley Forge
Van Buren, Martin
  birth
  vice-presidential nominee
  president
  presidential nominee
  favors 10 hours system
Van Born, General
Van Rensselaer’s expedition
Van Wart
Venezuela boundary question
Vengeance
Vera Cruz
  battle of
Vermont
  admitted
  passes Personal Liberty Law
Vespucci, or Vespucius, Amerigo. 
Vevay settled. 
Vice-admiralty courts. 
Vice president, manner of electing. 
Vicksburg captured. 
Vincennes settled.
Virginia. 
Virginia, named;
  settled;
  charters;
  a royal colony;
  defends Ohio valley;
  in colonial times;
  opposes Stamp Act;
  cedes land to Congress;
  Reserve;
  Plan of Constitution;
  resolutions of 1798;
  resolutions of 1849;
  Brown’s raid in;
  secedes;
  coast blockade;
  opposes reconstruction policy;
  again in the Union. 
Virginia City, Mont., founded. 
Virginia City, Nov., founded. 
Virginia companies. 
Volunteers during Civil War.

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Wabash River, Indians on.
Wachusett. 
Wages, in 1790;
  in 1860;
  in 1873;
  in 1880. 
Walla Walla. 
Wampanoag Indians. 
War department. 
Ward, Ensign. 
Warren. 
Wars, Indian;
  colonial;
  French and Indian;
  Revolution;
  with France;
  with Tripoli;
  war for commercial independence (War of 1812);
  Mexican;
  Civil;
  Spanish. 
Washington, George, in French and Indian War;
  commander in chief;
  in Revolution;
  president constitutional convention;
  president;
  social conditions at time of. 
Washington, national capital;
  burned;
  Confederates near. 
Washington, slavery question in;
  a territory;
  settled;
  boundary of;
  admitted.
Wasp. 
Watauga Creek settlements. 
Waterloo settled. 
Watertown settled. 
Watlings Island. 
Watson, Thomas E.
Wayne, Anthony, at Stony Point;
  in Indian warfare. 
Weaver, James B.
Webster, Daniel, birth;
  opposes nullification doctrine;
  secretary of state;
  speech on Compromise Bill;
  death of. 
Webster-Ashburton treaty. 
Weitzel, General. 
Wells, Dr.
West Indies discovered. 
West Point, Arnold at. 
West Virginia, admitted;
  slavery in. 
Western movement. 
Western Reserve of Connecticut. 
Western Union Telegraph Company. 
Wethersfield settled. 
Whalley, Edward. 
Wheeler, William A.
Wheeling settled. 
Whig party. 
Whisky Rebellion. 
White House Landing, battle of. 
White Plains, battle of, 135. 
White, John. 
White, John. 
Whitman, Marcus. 
Whitney, Eli. 
Wildcat state banks. 
Wilderness campaign. 
Wilkes, Captain. 
William, King, grants Massachusetts charter.