Theocracy. _See_ Massachusetts Bay. Thomas, Major, 255. Tobacco, and the founding of Virginia, 62; influence on Virginia institutions, 69-71; official corruption in connection with the sale of, 77; yields revenue to English customs, 127; not permitted to be raised in England, 130, 131; Virginia staple in eighteenth century, 167. Tordesillas, Treaty of, 26. Toscanelli, 29. Town meeting, 95, 99. Townshend, Charles, 206, 225, 230. Trade, colonial industry and, 120, 168, 130-34, 149, 166, 215; English colonization and, 50 _ff._, 125, 127, 129, 136, 138, 139, 147, 150, 218, 221, 222, 229; illicit, 130-32, 140, 144, 145, 160, 205; Indian, 73, 76, 140, 144, 145, 150, 152-56, 207, 208-11; Oriental, 4-6, 13-15, 19. Trade regulation. _See_ Colonial control. Travelers, thirteenth-century Oriental, 9-11. Treasure. _See_ Precious metals. Trebizond, 8. Trent, William, 154. Trenton, 255, 256. Trinidad, 26. Turgot, 215. Turkestan, 5. Turks, 15, 17. Ulster, 177. Union. _See_ Congress; Nationality. United States, 271, 272. Up-country. _See_ Frontier. Utrecht, Peace of, 150. Vaca, Cabeza de, 33. Valley Forge, 259. Vandalia Company, 211. Vane, Sir Harry, 102. Van Tyne, Claude Halsted, 259, note. Vassalboro, 175. Vaughan, George, 148. Velasquez, 32. Venice, 6. Vera Cruz, 150. Vergennes, 258, 259. Vermont, 175. Verrazano, 30, 38. Vespucci, Americus, 27. Villeroi, 255. Vincennes, 265-67. _Vindication of the Government of the New England Churches_, John Wise's, 196. Virginia, founded, 55; royal province, 63; growth of, 67 _ff._; social and political conditions in, 73 _ff._, 166, 172; sectional conflict in, 241; instructs delegates for independence, 252; raided by British troops, 262; cedes Western lands, 265; raided by Cornwallis, 269. "Virtual" representation, 220. Virtue. _See_ Civic virtue. "Vital" religion, 186 _ff._ Vivaldi, the, 18. Voltaire, Franklin and, 199. Voyages, Hakluyt's, 46. Wabash River, 266. Waldseemueller, 27. Walpole, Horace, Lord, 150. Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 214, 236, 262. Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 151. War of Independence, 253 _ff._ Warren, Joseph, 239. Warwick, Earl of, 63. Washington, Augustine, 154. Washington, George, builds Fort Necessity, 157; and the Braddock expedition, 192; appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, 254; early campaigns of the war, 254-57; thinks the "game nearly up," 255; amazed at Howe's conduct, 257; at Valley Forge, 259; effort to bribe, 261; criticism of, 264; at West Point, 268; at Yorktown, 269, 270; bids farewell to his officers, 273; army proposes to make him king, 273. Washington, Lawrence, 154. Watauga, 265. Watertown, 98, 104. Watling's Island, 25. Wealth, colonial aristocracy based on, 166. Wedderburne, Alexander, 225. Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 91. West. _See_ Frontier.