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Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 – November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. [1] As United States Minister to the United Kingdom during the American Civil War, Adams was crucial to Union efforts to prevent British recognition of the Confederate States of America and maintain European neutrality to the utmost extent.
Charles Francis Adams Jr., president of the Union Pacific Railroad and the American Historical Association; Henry Adams, author; Edward Atkinson, entrepreneur and business executive; Louis Brandeis, future Supreme Court Justice; Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University; Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor of physics at Yale University
Charles Francis Adams Sr., former congressman and ambassador, son of President John Quincy Adams. Nathaniel P. Banks, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former Speaker of the House. John Cochrane, Union General, New York Attorney General. As leader of the New York delegation to the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati ...
This small political party used several different names, often with different names in different states. It was a continuation of the Anti-Masonic Party that met in 1872 and nominated Charles Francis Adams, Sr., for president. When Adams declined to run, the party did not contest the 1872 election.
Van Buren/Adams Members of the Whig Party who opposed slavery, New York Barnburners, and members of the Liberty Party met in August 1848 in Buffalo, New York, to found a new political party. The Barnburners made a call for the formation of an anti-slavery party at their conclave in June, and by the People's Convention of Friends of Free ...
Advanced Placement (AP) United States History (also known as AP U.S. History or APUSH (/ ˈ eɪ p ʊ ʃ /)) is a college-level course and examination offered by College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). The Trent affair did not erupt as a major crisis until late November 1861. The first link in the chain of events occurred in February 1861, when the Confederacy created a three person European delegation consisting of William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre Rost, and Ambrose Dudley Mann.
In what were called the Alabama Claims, in 1869 the United States claimed direct and collateral damage against Great Britain.In the particular case of the Alabama, the United States claimed that Britain had violated neutrality by allowing five warships to be constructed, especially the Alabama, knowing that it would eventually enter into naval service with the Confederacy.