By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a billion dollars (compared to annual federal revenues of less than 25 million). And their numbers were growing.

Civil War's United States has been splintered into multiple warring factions, but a shared enemy has united most of them ...

We need hardly point out to our intelligent readers that the chance of war breaking out between Great Britain and the United States is of the most distant kind. The dispatch of troops to Canada ...

so when we see a percentage like that we might not realize how many waterways there are in the United States and how many are threatened. The map above gives you an idea of the number of rivers ...

The presentment was accompanied by the following communication: To the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern ... NEW-YORK, Aug. 16, 1861. Judge SHIPMAN remarked that he fully ...

The United States satellite images displayed are infrared ... of gaps in data transmitted from the orbiters. This is the map for US Satellite. A weather satellite is a type of satellite that ...

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Night - Clear. Winds SW. The overnight low will be 62 °F (16.7 °C). Sunny with a high of 82 °F (27.8 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). Partly cloudy today with a high of 83 ...

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The United States satellite images displayed are infrared ... of gaps in data transmitted from the orbiters. This is the map for US Satellite. A weather satellite is a type of satellite that ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 84 °F (28.9 °C). Winds N at 11 to 14 mph (17.7 to 22.5 kph). Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 6 to 14 mph (9.7 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 64 °F (17.8 ...