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.

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

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 ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

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E. DELAFIELD SMITH SWORN IN. E.D. SMITH, Esq., the newly appointed United States District-Attorney for the Southern District of New-York, received his commission yesterday from Washington ...

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 ...

The Current Temperature map shows the current temperatures color ... In most of the world (except for the United States, Jamaica, and a few other countries), the degree Celsius scale is used ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds WSW at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 58 °F (14.4 °C). Sunny with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 10 mph (9.7 to 16.1 kph). Sunny ...

The United States Department of Agriculture Plant Hardiness Zone map divides this northerly state into six zones ... with at least 37,000 troops during the U.S. Civil War between 1861 and 1865. After ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 5 to 6 mph (8 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 41 °F (5 °C). Sunny with a high of 60 °F (15.6 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 12 mph (9.7 to 19.3 kph). Sunny ...