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• 37th United States Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 38th United States Congress [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Abraham Lincoln [r]: (1809-65) Born in Illinois, President of the United States during the American Civil War. [e]
• Alabama, history [r]: History of Alabama, a State of the United States since 1819. Previously a territory. [e]
• Alabama [r]: State of the southern USA. [e]
• Alamo [r]: An 18th century Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, USA; site of a battle between Mexican and American soldiers. [e]
• Alexander Long [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Allan Nevins [r]: (1890 - 1971), American historian known for his history of the Civil War era, political biographies, and business histories. [e]
• American Civil War [r]: Major war 1861-65 fought over slavery in which the U.S. defeated the secessionist Confederate States of America. [e]
• American election campaigns, 19th century [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arkansas [r]: 25th state of the USA [e]
• Articles of Confederation [r]: The first constitution of the United States of America. [e]
• Battle of Gettysburg [r]: A turning point in the American Civil War, July 1-3, 1863, on the outskirts of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. [e]
• Battle of Hampton Roads [r]: Fought in March 1862 during the American Civil War, the first combat between steam-powered armored warships, CSS Virginia and USS Monitor [e]
• Beard [r]: Human facial hair covering part of the lower face, particularly the chin, throat and lower cheeks. [e]
• Blitzkrieg [r]: A military doctrine involving the breakthrough, at key points of the enemy lines, of highly mobile forces, usually of high technology for the time, which would then disrupt the enemy rear [e]
• Blues [r]: A music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions (I-IV-V) and blue notes. [e]
• Bounty (reward) [r]: A sum of money given, often by a government, to a person or persons in return for a service or act. [e]
• Buddhism in the United States [r]: [e]
• California, history since 1846 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• California [r]: A state of the United States located on the west coast of the North American continent. [e]
• Carpetbagger [r]: American northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction after the American Civil War. [e]
• Charles Sumner [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charleston, South Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chattanooga, Tennessee [r]: City in the state of Tennessee, U.S.A., the site of some of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, and the subject of Glenn Miller's big band jazz standard, "Chattanooga Choo Choo." [e]
• Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level [e]
• Civil war (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Confederation [r]: A sovereign nation formed by the joining together of other sovereign nations. [e]
• Copperheads [r]: The northern faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the American Civil War in favor of an immediate peace settlement with the Confederate States of America. [e]
• Dallas [r]: City in northeastern Texas; population 1,250,180 (2006 estimate). [e]
• Daniel Webster [r]: Leading American politician of the antebellum Whig Party, famous for his oratory, his legal and diplomatic skills, and his efforts to prevent the Civil War in the name of American nationalism. [e]
• Economic warfare [r]: The use of principally non-military methods to impose national policy, when those methods deal in the broad sense of economics, such as embargoes, freezing assets, and buying up raw materials. It may be complemented by military means such as intercepting supply shipments or attacking factories. [e]
• Fenian brotherhood [r]: 19th century Irish nationalist organization based in the USA. [e]
• Florida, history [r]: Acquired by the U.S. in 1821 and remained a peripheral state until the late 20th century, when migrants from cold-weather areas relocated giving it the 4th largest population by 2000. [e]
• Florida [r]: A State in the south-eastern USA. [e]
• Frank Lawrence Owsley [r]: (1890—1955) American historian of the South, pioneer in quantitative historiography and member of the Nashville Agrarians. [e]
• Freedmen's Bureau [r]: Federal agency created in March 1865 to help distressed refugees, primarily freed slaves, of the American Civil War. [e]
• Georgia (U.S. state) [r]: One of the original 13 states of the USA [e]
• German Americans [r]: The largest ethnic group in the United States, with over 45 million people, comprising over a fourth of the white population. [e]
• Gettysburg Campaign [r]: The Gettysburg Campaign was a decisive defeat for the Confederacy in the American Civil War in June-July 1863; Gen. Robert E. Lee was the loser, Gen. George Meade of the Union Army the winner. [e]
• Gilded Age [r]: the post-Civil War era in American history, from 1865 to 1901, which saw unprecedented economic, industrial, and population expansion. [e]
• Gold Democrats [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henry Clay [r]: Whig Party leader, 3-time failed presidential candidate, and broker of North/South compromises that held the Union together. [e]
• History of the U.S. Navy [r]: History of operations of the United States Navy, 1775 to the present [e]
• Homefront [r]: The non-military actions of a nation at war, including its government, politics, society, economy and culture. [e]
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day [r]: Christmas carol based on the poem 'Christmas Bells', composed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) in 1863. [e]
• Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
• James G. Blaine [r]: GOP presidential candidate in 1884; politician of the American Civil War, Reconstruction and Gilded Age eras. [e]
• James Lusk Alcorn [r]: (1816–1894) Prominent Scalawag politician in Mississippi during 19th century Reconstruction. [e]
• Jeffersonville, Indiana [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Brown [r]: (1800-59) American abolitionist who led a raid on the U.S. federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and was hanged for his efforts, becoming a martyr in the antislavery fight as a result. [e]
• John C. Calhoun [r]: Add brief definition or description
• John Steinbeck [r]: (1902–1968) One of the best known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century; wrote Grapes of Wrath. [e]
• John Tyler [r]: (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) A United States politician and the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845). [e]
• Juneteenth [r]: A holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, observed mainly in Texas. [e]
• Kansas Nebraska Act [r]: A U.S. Congressional Act of 1854 creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and allowing the settlers to decide whether or not to allow slavery. [e]
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kentucky [r]: 15th state of the USA [e]
• King Cotton [r]: A slogan used by southerners in 1860-61 to support secession from the United States. [e]
• Kinston, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ku Klux Klan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• League of Nations [r]: International association of countries established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles to promote cooperation and achieve international peace and security. [e]
• Louisiana [r]: 18th state of the USA [e]
• Mark Kellogg [r]: (March 31, 1831 - June 25, 1876) A newspaper reporter killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [e]
• Methodist Church, South [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mexican Revolution [r]: A civil war in Mexico from 1910 to 1920, producing the Mexican Constitution of 1917, costing Mexico 2.1 million lives, and the long rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party [e]
• Military formation (ground) [r]: The military term for a grouping of units. [e]
• Mississippi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Monitor (warship) [r]: An armored warship, possibly limited to coastal waters, with large-caliber guns in one or more turrets [e]
• Mumbai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Naval warfare [r]: The miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
• North Carolina [r]: A state in the southeastern region of the United States [e]
• Nursing [r]: A health sciences profession concerned with promoting and optimizing health; minimizing illness, morbidity, and mortality; alleviation of suffering through understanding its causes and means of alleviating it; and advocating the appropriate health care of individuals, families, communities, and populations [e]
• Ohio [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Oklahoma [r]: The 46th state admitted to the United States of America. [e]
• Operation DESERT SHIELD [r]: That part of the Gulf War following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, beginning with the acceptance of Coalition support by Saudi Arabia, and ending with the start of the air campaign, Operation DESERT STORM. [e]
• Operation DESERT STORM [r]: That part of the Gulf War, beginning with the first air strikes at 02:00 local time, 17 January 1991, until the main ground assault into Kuwait, Operation DESERT SABRE [e]
• Pender County, North Carolina [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Plain Folk of the Old South [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Polymer chemistry [r]: A multidisciplinary science that deals with the chemical synthesis and chemical properties of polymers or macromolecules. [e]
• President of the United States of America [r]: Head of state and government of the United States of America; elected through an electoral college and responsible for appointing Federal judges and senior officials of the executive branch, subject to Senate confirmation [e]
• Project Muse [r]: A subscription-based academic journals site operated by the Johns Hopkins University Press. [e]
• Radical Republican [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Railway history [r]: The story of the railways of the world from the early 19th century in Britain to the present day. [e]
• Reconstruction [r]: The attempt from 1865 to 1877 in American history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War. [e]
• Rigid airship [r]: Airship in which its envelope is retained by the use of an internal structural framework rather than by being forced into shape by the pressure of the lifting gas within the envelope. [e]
• Robert E. Lee [r]: (1807-1870) American soldier who became the outstanding general of the Confederate army in the American Civil War and a postwar icon of the South's "lost cause." [e]
• Samuel Bowles [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saudi Arabia [r]: A country in the Middle East, governed by a monarchy under Islamic law, which contains the holiest sites in Islam, and also dominates the world's oil economy [e]
• Scalawag [r]: A Southern white American who joined the Republican party during Reconstruction. [e]
• Secretary of State [r]: In Britain, the head of any of the more important government departments, or in the United States, the head of the State Department, which deals with foreign policy. [e]
• Slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
• South Carolina, History [r]: One of the original states of the United States. [e]
• South Carolina [r]: A State in the South-eastern USA. [e]
• Supreme Court of the United States [r]: The final federal court of appeals in the U.S., consisting of nine Justices. [e]
• Tariff, U.S. history [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tennessee [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Texas [r]: A State in the Southern USA. [e]
• Thaddeus Stevens [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Third Great Awakening [r]: The Third Great Awakening was a period of increased pietism and social activism in the last half of the 19th century; associated with the Social Gospel, Settlement House, and Charity Organization movements. [e]
• Third Party System [r]: The political universe in American politics from about 1854 to the mid 1890s; the main concerns were nationalism. [e]
• U.S. Civil War, Origins [r]: The U.S. Civil War emerged from the expansion of slavery in the U.S. and its implication in all aspects of U.S. society, economy, and politics. [e]
• U.S. Republican Party, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
• U.S. Republican Party [r]: One of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; center-right; the elephant is its symbol [e]
• U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
• USS Merrick (AKA-97) [r]: WWII U.S. Andromeda-class attack cargo ship [e]
• Ulrich B. Phillips [r]: (1877 - 1934) An early 20th century American historian who revolutionized the study of slavery and the plantation South. [e]
• Union Blockade [r]: The closing of Confederate ports by the Union Navy 1861-1865, during the American Civil War. [e]
• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
• United States Navy Regulations [r]: principal regulatory document of the U.S. Department of the Navy, endowed with the sanction of administrative law, as to duty, responsibility, authority, distinctions and relationships of various commands, officials and individuals [e]
• United States of America [r]: A country of North America, north of Mexico, south of Canada. [e]
• Virginia, history [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Virginia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• War Democrats [r]: Add brief definition or description
• War [r]: A state of violent conflict which exists between two or more independent groups, each seeking to impose its will on the other. [e]
• West Virginia [r]: 35th state of the USA [e]
• Wilmot Proviso [r]: A proposal, advanced several times 1848-54 but never adopted, for the U.S. Congress to forbid the expansion of slavery into the Southwest. [e]
• Yankee [r]: Add brief definition or description