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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally, the era was capped by U.S. involvement in [...
7: ...]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A series of laws, pas...
11: ... under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stated that "no legal State...
15: ...he Union, they were required to accept it (or the fifteenth after passage of the fourteenth).
21: ...d blacks going their own ways, and with whites in firm political control. The North allowed white sup...
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- Periodic table (7298 bytes)
1: ...bular display of the known [[chemical element]]s. First created by [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the elements ...
6: ...riodic table. Elements in a group have similar configurations of their [[valence shell]] electrons, wh...
21: ...iodic table (electron configurations)|Electron Configurations]]
23: *[[Periodic table (block)|Periodic table filled by blocks]]
36: ...t subshells, which as atomic number increases are filled in roughly this order: - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
165: | [[1854]] — [[1865]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
27: ...ng unpopular and, moreover, faced considerable difficulty in governing the British colonies. In [[Cana... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...ist in the early [[1800s]] and is credited as the first "[[feminist]]", but more accurately, the launc...
5: ...he very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[aboliti...
7: ...ime and remains so, and the United States was the first country and still one of the few that allows "...
11: ...rea, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given cus...
13: ...ericans the right to vote. She remained a central figure in the women's movement as a peacemaker, a cr... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...ne Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow mal...
8: ...ly, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her father continued to resi...
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. ...
20: ...]]). [[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
21: ...orward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented ... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de Vigne'...
29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865) - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: '''Suzanne Valadon''' ([[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[p...
10: ...y of her peers, Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
18: ...he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sad...
20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Soci鴩 Nationale des ... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...eminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...ce of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ...gree of M.D. The same year she was elected to the first [[London School Board]], at the head of the po...
11: ... 1908 she was elected mayor of [[Aldeburgh]], the first woman mayor in the whole of England. The move... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the...
21: ...s, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of P... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
4: ...st, beginning her career as a reformer before the first woman graduated from a U.S. [[medical school]]...
6: ... the [[Massachusetts]] legislature to obtain an official inspection commission.
10: ...quite [[clinical depression|depressed]]. It is difficult to speculate about the reasons for her declin...
14: ...house]]s and jails where the [[homeless]] were confined. She then lobbied state legislatures to erect ...
16: ...illionaire and "by all reports a skinflint of the first water" to contribute $30,000 to the constructi... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ... when [[Emily Stowe]] completed the official qualifications.
3: ...rd]], [[Ontario]]. She married Edward Trout in [[1865]] and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edwa... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
6: ...[corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...e Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...r the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
16: ...eal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own hea...
18: ...ereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
7: ...erformance partners. Schumann is credited with refining the tastes of audience through her presentati...
9: ... disapprobation. She returned to [[London]] in [[1865]] and continued her visits annually, with the exc...
11: ... remembered, together with Joachim, as one of the first executants who really played like composers. ... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few f...
7: ...ence. She made no defence and was [[Execution by firing squad |shot]] at dawn on October 12, becoming... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...ary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United States]] under the [...
21: ...generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolut...
26: ... he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and...
31: ... now commissioned a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the First Virginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio...
33: ...ton was acclaimed as a hero, and he commanded the First Virginia Regiment throughout the rest of war. ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
13: | [[March 4]], [[1861]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]]
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
38: *[[Hannibal Hamlin]] ([[1861]]-[[1865]]) - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
10: | '''Term of Office:'''
11: | [[April 15]], [[1865]] - [[March 4]], [[1869]]
27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
40: ...seventeenth [[President of the United States]] ([[1865]]–[[1869]]), succeeding to the presidency up...
42: ...impeachment|impeach]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[Mar...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Grant]]</td></tr>
32: ...nd although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon graduatio...
39: ...e agent in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and finally an assistant in the leather shop owned by hi...
41: ...r|Fort Sumter]], Captain Grant arrived in [[Springfield, Illinois]], with a company of men he had rais...
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