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. Whitney, Eli, cotton gin, 199. Whittier, John G., lines on Webster, 180, 220. Wilmot, David, and Wilmot Proviso, 170. 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. Woolens Bill of 1827, 6. Worcester Convention of 1857, 253. Wright, Silas, 82, 105, 108. Yale College, influence, 222. 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. Yucatan, United States and, 157. End of Project Gutenberg's Expansion and Conflict, by William E. Dodd