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Ads by Google      Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia During the American Civil War, Loyalists to the United States living in the Border States and Confederate States were termed Unionists. During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the United States, the northern states that did not secede. Also, in the public dialogue of the United States, new states are "admitted to the Union" and the President's annual address to Congress and to the people is referred to as the "State of the Union" Address. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)   (367 words)      Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. Lincoln was encouraged by the army's victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but was dismayed by the news of the Draft Riots in several American cities. Not-withstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlincoln.htm   (10461 words)      Hyphenated American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term "hyphenated American" was popularized in the 1910s by President Theodore Roosevelt, responding to the increasing fractionalization within the nation along ethnic lines. The term hyphenated American is an epithet from the late 19th century to refer to Americans who consider themselves of a distinct cultural origin other than the United States, and who claim to hold allegiance to both. By contrast other groups have embraced the hyphen arguing that the American identity is compatible with alternative identities and that the mixture of identities within the United States strengthens the nation rather than weakens it. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenated_American   (836 words)      George Washington Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas George Washington was arguably one of the few American Presidents who was not a Christian. Genet also was authorized to issue letters of marque and reprisal to American ships and gave authority to any French consul to serve as a prize court. Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. is also named for him, the only state named for a president. http://www.anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/George_Washington/   (836 words)      Pennsylvania -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Pennsylvania Germans, including the (An American follower of the Mennonite religion) Amish and the (A member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life) Mennonites, dominate the area around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg, with smaller numbers extending northeast to the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area and up the Susquehanna River valley. Pennsylvania and Delaware were two of the (Click link for more info and facts about thirteen colonies) thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolution of 1776. He was the 15th President of the United States and the only President from that state. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/pe/pennsylvania.htm   (4926 words)      Character Above All: Gerald Ford Essay But it was his judgment then, and it remained his judgment, that a two-year public trial of former President Nixon in the courts and by the press would be far more damaging to the progress and well-being of the country than a pardon. Forgiveness was so great a part of Ford's nature that he thought the American people would be forgiving, that they would accept Nixon's resignation as punishment enough...... Ford was confirmed by a House and Senate that expected him to replace a President who was also facing indictment for crimes...... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/character/essays/ford.html   (4926 words)      Memorandum of Conference on January 19, 1961 between President Eisenhower and President-Elect Kennedy on the Subject of Laos Commenting upon President Eisenhower's statement that we would have to go to the support of Laos alone if we could not persuade others to proceed with us, President-elect Kennedy asked the question as to how long it would take to put an American division into Laos. President Eisenhower opened the discussion on Laos by stating that the United States was determined to preserve the independence of Laos. President Eisenhower agreed with this and in his statement gave the impression that the request for aid had already come from the government of Laos. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc97.htm   (1220 words)      National Liberation Front Anti-American Leaflets Uused During the Vietnam War Proclaim a general amnesty for all political prisoners and the dissolution of concentration camps of all sorts; abolish fascist law 19/59 and all the other antidemocratic laws; authorize the return to the country of all persons persecuted by the American-Diem regime who are now refugees abroad. U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first of the troops after the DRVN unified the South Vietnamese communist insurgents in an organization called the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam on 20 December 1960. However, President Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the creation of a counter-revolutionary alternative south of the seventeenth parallel. http://www.psywarrior.com/VCLeafletsProp.html   (7366 words)      President George Washington: Medical History On July 9, "the most catastrophic [day] in all Anglo-American history," Washington was so ill that he had to tie pillows to his saddle in order to ride his horse. Alternate index terms: Medical history of President Washington. Washington was left as the only person able to distribute the wounded general's orders, and led the retreat. http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g01.htm   (7366 words)      Civil Rights Movement Timeline Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expands the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html   (1565 words)      PEN American Center - Press Releases PEN American Center is calling on President George W. Bush to lead an open, bipartisan evaluation of individual provisions of the Act that are scheduled to sunset in 2005, including Section 215, which opens records of individual reading activities to government scrutiny. PEN American Center has joined the legal battle to reverse President Bush's executive order limiting access to presidential papers and to authorize the National Archives to administer the Presidential Records Act of 1978 as Congress intended. PEN American Center, the national association of writers, today joined a number of First Amendment and anti-censorship organizations in calling on a Federal Appeals Court to reverse a lower court decision enjoining publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/175   (2772 words)      American President Almost all historians judge Lincoln as the greatest President in American history because of the way he exercised leadership during the war and because of the impact of that leadership on the moral and political character of the nation. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws of the United States, and end the secession. When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. http://www.americanpresident.org/history/abrahamlincoln   (1039 words)      Hi-Ethics Prior to joining InteliHealth, Dr. Fabius was a medical director with Aetna U.S. Healthcare, U.S. Healthcare, and CIGNA Health Plans, and served as president of an eight-doctor private pediatrics practice of about 16,000 patients. The author of two books for physician executives, Dr. Fabius sits on the Accreditation Standards Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and is a faculty instructor for the American College of Physician Executives. Chief Medical Officer, Raymond J. Fabius, M.D., Elected as Vice President of Hi-Ethics http://www.hiethics.com/Press/Releases/010607-2.asp   (1039 words)      Howard Zinn: The Power and the Glory The idea of American exceptionalism persisted as the first President Bush declared, extending Henry Luce’s prediction, that the nation was about to embark on a “new American Century.” Though the Soviet Union was gone, the policy of military intervention abroad did not end. The notion of American exceptionalism—that the United States alone has the right, whether by divine sanction or moral obligation, to bring civilization, or democracy, or liberty to the rest of the world, by violence if necessary—is not new. American exceptionalism was never more clearly expressed than by Secretary of War Elihu Root, who in 1899 declared, “The American soldier is different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the world began. http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/zinn.html   (2776 words)      FOCUS - More Oversight for Ag Embargoes American Farm Bureau Federation, Farm Bureau and the FB Logo are registered service marks of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Unfortunately, American farmers and ranchers are the ones who feel the brunt of such punishing decisions. The bill also would require the president to submit a report to Congress detailing reasons for the embargo. http://www.fb.org/views/focus/fo99/fo0301.html   (495 words)      IMA Hero: Abraham Lincoln HH As President during the American Civil War, Abe preserved the Union and abolished slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He was a postmaster, lawyer, and President of the United States. http://www.imahero.com/herohistory/abe_herohistory.htm   (1139 words)      Civil Rights Movement Timeline Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination, President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first time. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Overriding President Reagan's veto, Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which expands the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html   (1139 words)      MSN Encarta - Multimedia - President Lincoln Civil War, American; Lincoln, Abraham; American Literature: Prose; President of the United States Soon after Abraham Lincoln's election as president of the United States, seven Southern states seceded from the Union because they feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery. Four more states had followed by the time Lincoln delivered his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/RefPages/RefMedia.aspx?refid=461517478   (83 words)      Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps Hirbayashi, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, was convicted in the district court of knowingly disregarding restrictions made applicable by a military commander to persons in a military area prescribed by him as such, all as authorized by an Executive Order of the President. Yasui, an American-born person of Japanese ancestry, was convicted in the district court of an offense of a curfew order. American citizen of Japanese ancestry petitioned for writ of coram nobis to vacate his 1942 conviction for being in a place from which all persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded pursuant to a civilian exclusion order. http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/intern01.htm   (3655 words)      The Economic Embargo - Cuban History It prohibits aid to Cuba and authorizes the President to create a "total embargo upon all trade" with Cuba. He refers to the ban as "inconsistent with traditional American liberties," and difficult to enforce. The coalition of Americans for Humanitarian Trade With Cuba join the United States Association of Former Members of Congress to call on the Clinton administration to end the embargo on food and medicines to Cuba. http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/embargo.htm   (2739 words)      CIA - The World Factbook -- United States Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for life on condition of good behavior by the president with confirmation by the Senate); United States Courts of Appeal; United States District Courts; State and County Courts American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Wake Island During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html   (2739 words)      Kies, Paul Philemon Papers, 1621 - 1970 DePew, Chauncey Mitchell, 1834-1928 American lawyer and railway President n.d. Madison, James, 1751-1836 American President March 2, 1810 209. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 American President December 24, 1918 369. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg308.htm   (4067 words)      U.S. presidential election, 2004 September 25, 2003 - Natural Law Party endorses Dennis Kucinich for President. July 14, 2003 - Edie Bukewihge, Republican, formally filed papers with the Federal Election Commission seeking a first term as President of the United States. See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, U.S. Democratic Party Presidential Primary, 2004, U.S. Republican Party Presidential Primary, 2004, 2004 http://us-presidential-election-2004.asinah.net/american-encyclopedia/wikipe...   (4067 words)      Federal Government Resources on the Web/President List of national security directives since President Truman Brief statements of the President's position on selected bills beginning 2001 Press release of presentation made at the American Psychological Association Convention on August 5, 2000 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedprs.html   (4067 words)      CIVIL SERVICE - LoveToKnow Article on CIVIL SERVICE By constant efforts the Civil Service Commission succeeded in having position after position withdrawn from this excepted class, until by the action of the president, on the 6th of May 1896, it was finally reduced almost to a minimum. In most European countries the civil service is recruited on much the same lines as in the United Kingdom and the United States, that is, either by examination or by nomination or by both. The same evils that the Federal Civil Service Act was designed to remedy exist to a large degree in many of the state governments, and are especially aggravated in the administration of the local governments of some of the larger State examinacities. http://55.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CI/CIVIL_SERVICE.htm   (5951 words)      Think Progress Here are two recent examples — that it would do Bush well to heed — of just how effective consultation can be when a President is nominating a justice to the Supreme Court: Who provided the legal justification to spy (perhaps illegally) on Americans without judicial oversight? One more: 65% of the American public believe Bush’s priorities for the country are not the same as theirs. http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Judiciary   (2810 words)      Scandals for dummies In short, American torturers, and those who authorized the torture, would not be violating any law because, under this theory, whatever Bush authorizes cannot be unlawful, because he IS the law. This claim reminds one of the theory espoused by President Richard Nixon -- later struck down by the courts -- which claimed that when a president takes any action, because he is the president, by definition his actions are not illegal.) To protect subordinates should they be charged with torture, the memo advised that Bush issue a "presidential directive or other writing" that could serve as evidence, since authority to set aside the laws is "inherent in the President." (emphasis supplied) http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/fascist.htm   (1636 words)      The Philippine-American War (1899-1902) from Filipino-Americans.com The Americans Are Coming!’ Maybe these shouts were heard while the Americans were chasing and shooting the guerrillas and their sympathizers. Nevertheless, the United States had to pay a very high price, more than 4,000 American soldiers’ lives. The same tactics were perpetrated by the American army against non-combatants from March to October 1903 in the province of Albay and in 1905 in the provinces of Cavite and Batangas. http://www.filipino-americans.com/filamwar.html   (7214 words)      Walsh Iran / Contra Report - Chapter 27 President Reagan President Reagan said he could explain to the American people a violation of the statute, but could not explain letting the hostages be killed for fear of violating a statute. President Reagan has testified that he did not and would not authorize any false statement to Congress by Poindexter in connection with the Iran initiative.122 Similarly, he denied knowledge of Casey's incomplete and inaccurate testimony on November 21, 1986. The question here is whether President Reagan violated any criminal law with respect to approving the arms sales to Iran, by failing to execute an appropriate Finding or a written determination authorizing NSC involvement, or by ordering that the arms sales not be reported to Congress. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_27.htm   (7214 words)      MSN Encarta - Civil Service In 1883 Congress passed and President Chester Arthur signed the Civil Service Act, sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act, legislation that created the foundations of the American civil service system. The term does not apply properly to service in the legislative branch or judicial branch, although in the United States some employees of these branches are subject to provisions of the Civil Service Act. In certain countries, notably the United Kingdom, the term civil service is used to denote only positions in the national government; in others, including France and the United States, the term is applied to governmental positions on all levels, from federal to municipal. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761552213   (1390 words)

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