President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the president who ended slavery in the rebel southern states during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

On December tenth, eighteen ninety-eight, the United States and Spain signed a treaty in Paris officially ending the war between them.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Historians say the yellow press was so powerful it helped push the United States into war with Spain in eighteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But he needed the continued loyalty of those border states, like Maryland and Kentucky, or risk losing the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2009.04.11

As we do,we must also reaffirm that the United States is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2011.05.07

The period after the Civil War in the United States was marked by several famous incidents involving violations of the public trust.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He was the chief military advisor to the Philippine military forces when the United States entered World War Two in December,nineteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

She said what surprises them most is when she states firmly that the Civil War was,in fact, about the fight over slavery.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

Troops from the English colonies that would become the United States supported the British army in the war.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

They wanted strong policies to punish the southern states that left the Union and lost the war.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

It prevented a civil war. The eighteen fifty compromise did not,however, end slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He knew that if he opened fire, the United States and South Carolina would be at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Feelings against the war were growing stronger, not only in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but also in several other farm states of the north.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

After the Civil War, most southern states were governed by radical members of the Republican Party.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

General Stanley McChrystal has warned that without more troops, the United States could lose the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

In London,the British government decided that Oregon was not worth a war with the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19