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- James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''James A. Garfield'''</font></caption>
4: ...mage:james_a_garfield_illustration.3.jpg|James A. Garfield]]</div></td></tr>
13: ...United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Lucretia Garfield]]</td></tr>
19: '''James Abram Garfield''' ([[November 19]], [[1831]] – [[September...
21: ...[[March]] to [[September]] of [[1881]], President Garfield was in power for a total of just six months and 1...
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- Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
12: ..., and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...y, mathematics and natural science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and reli...
21: ...Butler]] "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]].
23: ...age]] movement. She also became acquainted with [[Frederick Douglass]] and became an activist for blac...
27: ...nd its humanitarian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the I... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
18: ... disgruntled office seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[Presi...
20: ... times a day. He was called "Chet" by family and friends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced h...
22: Arthur suffered from [[Bright's Disease]] and died of a [[cerebral h...
27: ...Vermont|Fairfield]] in [[Franklin County, Vermont|Franklin County]], [[Vermont]] on October 5, 1829 (a... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...m'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing bot...
11: The name "Barbados" comes from a [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Por...
13: ...the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. From the arrival of the first British settlers in [[...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before...
19: ...dos was made in [[1951]], when universal adult suffrage was introduced. This was followed by steps tow... - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
32: ''Briefly from March [[1865]]''
50: ...en the United States – forces coming mostly from the 23 [[Northern United States|northern states...
53: ...mter]], South Carolina, Lincoln called for troops from all remaining states to recover the forts, resu...
58: ...estern counties of Virginia organized a secession from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for...
62: ...California_and_the_Civil_War|California]] was a [[free state]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had wo... - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
3: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1860]] to [[1899]]'''.
15: ...[1861]] - [[Kansas]] admitted to the Union as a [[free state]]
36: *[[1865]] - [[Freedman's Bureau]]
45: *[[1867]] - [[Alaska Purchase]] from Russia
55: ...Wyoming]] becomes first state to grant [[woman suffrage]] - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
15: ... out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend.
19: ...year he spent at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. From [[1866]] to [[1867]], he was an instructor at S...
23: ...ical notes, but articulate speech. With financing from his American father-in-law, on [[March 7]], [[1...
27: ...e]] bestowed on him the [[Volta Prize]] of 50,000 francs, the [[Royal Society of Arts]] in London awar...
41: ... in circuit with the line. As the current passed from the probe through the liquid to the line a grea... - Totem pole (20143 bytes)
1: ...''Totem poles''' are monumental sculptures carved from great trees, typically [[Western Redcedar]], by...
6: ...aida]] people of the [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], from whence it spread outward to the [[Tsimshian]] a...
8: ...as spent and distributed in lavish [[potlatch]]es frequently associated with the construction and erec...
10: ... forth in many new and traditional media, ranging from tourist trinkets to masterful works in wood, st...
12: ...aditional styles, although some artists have felt free to include modern subject matter or use nontrad... - Reconstruction (12035 bytes)
4: ... reconstruction, which neither aided the recently freed slaves, nor imposed a Northern agenda on the r...
6: ...ts by southern states to deny civil rights to the freed slaves, Congress enacted a [[Civil Rights Act]...
12: ...or a brief period. Most political "firsts" for [[African-American]]s occurred during this period.
14: ... newly freed slaves by the establishment of the [[Freedmen's Bureau]].
36: ...can labor movement and the associated paucity and frailty of democratic social entitlements in the U.S... - John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
22: ...arty (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate from the North to be elected president, and the last...
24: ...h most of his [[civil rights]] policies coming to fruition through his successor, [[Lyndon B. Johnson]...
30: ...e history course. He graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from Harvard with a degree in international affairs ...
45: ...s, but had a mixed voting record, often diverging from President [[Harry S. Truman]] and the rest of t...
47: ...ged marriage; he interviewed several of Kennedy's friends who reported the marriage as fact, and addit... - James K. Polk (27988 bytes)
19: ...venth [[President of the United States]], serving from [[March 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 4]], [[1849]]....
26: During his childhood, Polk suffered from poor health. In 1812, his father took him to [[...
28: ...attended a school in [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee|Murfreesboro]], where he met his future wife, [[Sarah C...
31: ...opular, earning him the nickname "[[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]] of the Stump." He courted [[Sarah ...
33: Polk became a supporter and close friend of [[Andrew Jackson]], then the leading polit... - Republican Party (United States) (31573 bytes)
7: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
22: ...f the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|Ameri...
46: ...Lincoln]] in [[1860]] ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats ...
48: ... in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in governm...
50: ...l politics – albeit with strong competition from the Democrats, especially during the 1880s. Wit... - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
5: ...ates government]], the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency". As first in the [[United State...
18: ...legiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of...
21: ... the Vice President is constitutionally prevented from voting except in the case of ties. In practice...
25: ...r as a Senator. When he was elected to the Senate from his native [[South Carolina]], he became the fi...
31: ...cond. Thus, the President and Vice President were from different parties. An even greater problem occu... - Tecumseh's curse (3257 bytes)
1: ...of America|President]] [[William Henry Harrison]] from [[pneumonia]]. Commonly attributed to Indian ch...
8: *'''[[1880]]''' - [[James Garfield]], assassinated in [[1881]]
11: *'''[[1940]]''' - [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], died of [[cerebral hemorrha...
16: It is worth noting that Franklin Roosevelt was in his fourth term of office ...
19: ...enry Harrison's time, he probably would have died from his wounds. Reagan died in [[2004]], a quarter-... - Rutherford B. Hayes (9651 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[James Garfield]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Fremont, Ohio]]</td></tr>
24: ...sumed the practice of law. He was city solicitor from [[1857]] to [[1859]]. He was commissioned a ma...
26: ...ngress. He was again elected Governor and served from January [[1876]] to [[March 2]], [[1877]], when...
36: ...t one Southerner and he withdrew all Union troups from the South, then he would become president. This... - James A. Garfield (15070 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''James A. Garfield'''</font></caption>
4: ...mage:james_a_garfield_illustration.3.jpg|James A. Garfield]]</div></td></tr>
13: ...United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Lucretia Garfield]]</td></tr>
19: '''James Abram Garfield''' ([[November 19]], [[1831]] – [[September...
21: ...[[March]] to [[September]] of [[1881]], President Garfield was in power for a total of just six months and 1... - Theodore Roosevelt (35706 bytes)
22: ...evelt was a fifth cousin of the later President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. They are the only cousins t...
27: ... and other ailments. It is believed he attended [[Friends Seminary]], a private [[Quaker]] school on [...
30: *From 1869 to 1870 his family toured [[Europe]] and s...
31: *From 1872 to 1873 the Roosevelt family traveled in [...
34: ... [[German language|German]] and [[French language|French]] while the family was in Dresden, remarked; ... - Levi P. Morton (2620 bytes)
2: ... States House of Representatives|Representative]] from [[New York]] and the twenty-second [[Vice Presi...
6: ...h 3]], [[1893]]. He was [[Governor of New York]] from [[1895]] to [[1897]]. Following his public car...
11: ...f New York]]|before=[[Roswell P. Flower]]|after=[[Frank S. Black]]|years=1895–1897}} - United States Republican Party (30737 bytes)
6: senateleader= [[Bill Frist]]|
21: ...f the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the [[Free Soil Party]], and [[Know-Nothing movement|Ameri...
45: ...Lincoln]] in [[1860]] ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats ...
47: ... in the Confederacy), forcing drastic reforms and frequently giving former slaves positions in governm...
49: ...l politics – albeit with strong competition from the Democrats, especially during the 1880s. Wit... - First Lady of the United States (9641 bytes)
3: ... position was then filled by a female relative or friend of the President. Less commonly, the First L...
7: ...or in place of the President. The first lady also frequently participates in [[humanitarian]] and char...
15: ...s her own First Lady, select a female relative or friend to occupy the role, or have her husband act a...
25: ! From
44: | friend of widower [[Thomas Jefferson]]
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