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- Old Kingdom (5401 bytes)
2: ...d "Kingdom" periods which mark the high points of civilisation in the Nile Valley (the others being the [...
10: ...story/herlin/textsup.htm#_ftn18 ''ANCIENT AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS TO ca. 1500: Pharaonic Egypt to Ca. 800 B...
22: ...nd also caused famines. But regional autonomy and civil wars were not the only causes of this decline. Th...
24: ... themselves confronted with the worst excesses of civil war, which devoured the Old Kingdom after the ver... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
54: ...was the first president born after the [[American Civil War]]. Lee surrendered [[9 April]] [[1865]]. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
25: ...any other contributions to American political and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated t...
147: ...iews on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church ten...
155: ...all in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities."
157: ...mple of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government" (Letter to [[Alexander von Humboldt]]... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ... the [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
65: ...of the laws of Rhode-Island, by such force as the civil peace shall be unable to overcome, it will be the...
150: ...ton peace convention sought a compromise to avoid civil war, while the [[Confederate States Constitution|... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
62: ...can, Party]]. Throughout the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] he opposed [[Abraham Lincoln|President Linc... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
20: ...ica|Confederacy]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. He died in 1869 from [[cirrhosis]].
70: ... woman while driving a carriage drunk. During the Civil War, Pierce further damaged his reputation by dec... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
50: ...om [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American Civil War]] and as a result, he is widely considered to...
82: ...gned, he appointed northerners, and chartered the civilian steamer ''[[Star of the West]]'' to secretly c...
84: As such, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired during the Buchanan Administration...
143: * [[Origins of the American Civil War]] - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...undaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]].
50: ...s [[assassination]], shortly after the end of the Civil War, made him a [[martyr]] to millions of America...
121: ==Important non-Civil War measures of Lincoln's first term==
130: ==Civil War and reconstruction==
147: ... successful in giving the war meaning to Northern civilians through his oratorical skills. Despite his me... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
42: ...s towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute ...
105: ... the military and ensuring the local passage of [[civil rights]] laws and otherwise imposing the will of ...
107: ...nton. The Act said, "...every person holding any civil office, to which he has been appointed by and wit... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...nion army | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Pr...
39: ...1854]], he resigned from the army. Seven years of civilian life followed, in which he was a farmer, a rea...
43: ... Army]] its first major victory of the [[American Civil War]] by capturing [[Battle of Fort Henry|Fort He...
54: ...e warring sides. Within a few weeks, the American Civil War was effectively over, although minor actions ...
72: ...ed in [[1873]], it became the role model for the "Civil Service Commission" instituted in [[1883]] by Pre... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
20: ...le achievements in office as President included [[civil service]] reform and the passage of the [[Pendlet...
31: During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Arthur served as acting [[quartermaster]] ...
40: ...t of New York became, as President, a champion of civil service reform. Public pressure, heightened by th...
42: ...the Pendleton Act, which established a bipartisan Civil Service Commission, forbade levying political ass...
103: * [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]] (1883) - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
29: ...can]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [...
46: ...d hundreds of private pension bills to [[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When... - Africa (35389 bytes)
37: ...f the earliest nation states ever formed. Other [[civilization]]s include [[Ethiopia]], the [[Nubian king...
59: ...fe, this divide initiated by the Belgiums created civil war and unrest between those identified as Hutu a...
77: ...ng among African organisations and states. In the civil war in the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] (form...
105: ...s, the [[Berbers]], and [[Nubians]] who developed civilizations in North Africa during ancient times. The...
145: ...g Egypt, [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] and the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan city-states]] were worshipped. - United States (58223 bytes)
60: ...s Constitution|13th Amendment]] took effect. The Civil War effectively ended the question of a state's r...
66: In addition to the Civil War, another major traumatic experience for the n...
392: ...oup]]s. Some examples of these are the various [[Civil Rights Act]]s, the [[Americans with Disabilities ...
419: ...artin Luther King, Jr. Day]] || Honors the late [[civil rights]] leader. Few non-governmental organizatio...
446: ...r]] | [[Vietnam War]] | [[Civil Rights Movement | Civil Rights]]) | [[Foreign relations of the United Sta... - Canada (35540 bytes)
146: ...except in Quebec where [[civil law (legal system)|civil law]] predominates. Though enforcement is a prov... - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
4: ... The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] invasion and ensuing civil war destroyed much of the underdeveloped country'...
13: The war against the Soviet Union and the ensuing civil war also led to migration to the cities and refug...
32: ...y stemming from the Soviet occupation and ensuing civil war. Today, economic recovery and long-term devel... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...em; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts. - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
69: ...mat Mohammed]] to power, who promised a return to civilian rule. However, he was killed in an abortive co...
197: ...ergoing substantial economic reform under the new civilian administration. Nigeria's former military rule...
259: *[[Nigerian civil war]] - Algeria (16548 bytes)
72: ...ple were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of civilians by guerrilla groups such as the [[Armed Islam...
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