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In the early 1860s also different types of political maps had been published. One early example is Reynolds's Political Map of the United States from 1856. This map was designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. [11]
The second battle of Charleston Harbor, also known as the siege of Charleston Harbor, the siege of Fort Wagner, or the battle of Morris Island, took place during the American Civil War in the late summer of 1863 between a combined U.S. Army/Navy force and the Confederate defenses of Charleston, South Carolina.
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Defected to KMT in 1930, warlord of Chahar Province and Rehe Province: Jing Yuexiu. 井岳秀 1913–1936: Northern Shaanxi warlord, cooperated with various other cliques. [25] Han Fuqu. 韓復榘 1930–1938: Chairman of the Shandong Province; Defected to KMT in 1930. [18] arrested and shot after abandoning his province when the Second Sino ...
The Twelve Warlords War was a period ranging from 966–968 characterized by chaos and civil war. The reason this period received the title of "Twelve Warlords War", or Anarchy of the 12 Warlords, is because of the struggle for power after the illegitimate succession to the throne by Dương Tam Kha after the death of Ngô Quyền.
Jacksonian democracy" is a term to describe the 19th-century political philosophy that originated with the seventh U.S. president, The United States presidential election of 1824 brought partisan politics to a fever pitch, with General Andrew Jackson's popular vote victory (and his plurality in the United States Electoral College being ...
Second English Civil War (1648–1649) Second Central American Civil War (1838–1840) Second Congo War (1998–2002), also referred to as a civil war; Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003) Second Libyan civil war (2014–2020) Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005) Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997–1999), also known as the Second ...
American Samoa was acquired by the United States in 1900 after the end of the Second Samoan Civil War. [5] The United States purchased the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. [6] Puerto Rico and Guam remain territories, and the Philippines became independent in 1946, after being a major theater of World War II.