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Georgia and the American Experience
Washington, 157, 243
Washington, Booker T., 353-354, p353, 355, 356
Washington, D.C., 190, 496
Washington, George, 143, 144, p144, 153, 161, 162, 163, p163,
174, p174, 175, 195, 233, 502, 503, 590
Washington County, 590
Watergate, 458-459
water resources, 14, 64-65, 491
aquifers, m64, 65
Atlantic Ocean, 56-57
coastal waterways, 57-58
lakes, 64
reservoirs, 65
river systems, 59, 61-63
waterfalls, 10, 21
watershed, 63
Watson, Thomas Edward, 293, 346-348, p346, 349, 358, 360,
381, 399
Waynesborough, f270-271
Wayne County, 590
weather, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27-30, 452-453
weather phenomena, 27-30
Weaver, Robert, 397
Webster, Daniel, 201, 590
Webster County, 590
Wereat, John, 591
Wesley, Charles, 123, 128
Wesley, John, 123, 128, p128, 187
Wesleyan College, 188
Western and Atlantic Railroad, 182, 264, 313, 543
West Point, 63
West Point Lake, 62, 64
Westville, 240, p240, p241
wetland, 20
whales, 48
Wheeler County, 590
Whig party, 242, 243, 245
Whigs, 149, 156
White, John,
White, William, 447
White County, 80, 198, 590
White Sticks, 195, 196
white supremacy, 312, 348, 349, 351, 399
Whitfield, George, 128, 590
Whitfield County, 590
Whitney, Eli, 180-181, p180
Wilcox County, 590
wildlife, 47-51, 56
Wilkes County, 156, 186, 590
Wilkinson County, 590
wind currents, 26, m26
winds, 25
Winecoff Hotel, fire, 428-429, p428
Winfrey, Oprah, 490
women,
in 1920s, 380-381
in Civil War, 287-288
and Equal Rights Amendment, 456
and rights movement, 235, 288, 454-456
and politics, 380-381
suffrage, 288, 315, 340, 342, 380
and Title IX, 456
in World War II, 405, 412, 414, 454
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 339
Woodland culture, 78-80
Woodruff, Ernest, 365
Woodruff, Robert, 365, 367
Worchester, Samuel, 199, 200
Works Progress Administration (WPA), f393, 396
World Congress Center, 471
World Trade Center (New York), 481, 482
World War I, 293, 370-372
World War II, 293, 402-414
costs, 409
in Europe, 407-408
events leading to, 402-403
Georgia in, 411-414
military forces, 405
in the Pacific, 409
social effects, 414
Tuskegee airmen, 406
U.S. entry into, 404-405
Worth County, 590
Wright, James, 147-148, 150-151, 153, 154, 157, 591
WSB radio, 382
WTBS-TV, 426
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Yamacraw Bluff, 119
Yamacraw Indians, 84, 118
Yamassee Indians, 84
Yazoo land fraud, 177-178, 195
yeoman farmers, 218
Yorktown, 161-162
Young, Andrew, 446, 447, 450
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Zimmermann telegram, 371
Zubly, John, 154
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