As both the North and South were learning quickly, the Civil War was becoming more costly than anyone had imagined.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

It was not surprising that the North showed little sympathy when the fighting stopped and the South lay in ruins.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The many traditions of North African music she listened to as a child had a big influence on her.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Rosie Sharpe from the environmental rights group Global Witness say that means the north and south will have to cooperate.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

So, when the people of the North expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

With this information he knows where his ship is in relation to the north or south pole and the equator.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

It could not produce as much military equipment, and it could not transport supplies as easily as the North could.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

It is in Bloomington,Minnesota, in the north-central part of the country near the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

But they needed money to buy the land The money came from the legislatures of Tennessee and North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Whig Party members and Abolitionists in the North believed that slave-owners and southerners in Polk's administration had planned the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

The Great Lakes are part of a waterway that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the center of North America.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20