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Union party

(Encyclopedia) Union party, in American history. 1 Coalition of Republicans and War Democrats in the election of 1864. Abraham Lincoln was renominated for President with Andrew Johnson, the…

The U.S. Highway System

At the beginning of the 20th century, an uninterrupted system of nationwide highways did not exist. Beginning in 1811, a National Road had been constructed between Cumberland in western Maryland…

Sentence Agreement: Introduction

IntroductionSentence AgreementIntroductionCollective NounsIndefinite PronounsWalk This WayAgree to Disagree Here you learn how to match subjects and verbs, pronouns and antecedents, and maybe…

Hughes, Charles Evans

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Charles EvansHughes, Charles Evanshy&oomacr;z [key], 1862–1948, American statesman and jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910–16), U.S. secretary of…

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz

(Encyclopedia) Brandeis, Louis DembitzBrandeis, Louis Dembitzbrănˈdīs [key], 1856–1941, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916–39), b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Harvard law school, 1877. As a…