Events from the year 1869intheUnitedStates. President: Andrew Johnson (D-Tennessee) (until March 4) Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois) (starting March 4)...
TheUnitedStates of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of theUnited States)...
county equivalents of theUnitedStates. The 50 states of theUnitedStates are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...
The president of theUnitedStates is the head of state and head of government of theUnitedStates, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral...
Americans, are the Indigenous peoples of theUnitedStates or portions thereof. It includes American Indians from the contiguous UnitedStates and Alaska...
passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under theUnitedStates Constitution (1789) was the most...
In this list of presidents of theUnitedStates by age, the first table charts the age of each president of theUnitedStates at the time of presidential...
The1869UnitedStates Senate election in Massachusetts was held on January 19, 1869. Incumbent Charles Sumner was re-elected to a fourth term in office...
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when theUnitedStates prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic...
The1869UnitedStates Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 19, 1869. John Scott was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the...
Liberalism intheUnitedStates is based on concepts of unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of freedom of speech, freedom...
This is a list of capital cities of theUnitedStates, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...
Abortion is a divisive issue intheUnitedStates. The issue of abortion is prevalent in American politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans...
The following is a list of members of theUnitedStates House of Representatives from the state of New York. For chronological tables of members of both...
Rail transportation intheUnitedStates consists primarily of freight shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads...
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to theUnitedStates Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's...
political parties intheUnitedStates, both past and present. The list does not include independents. The following third parties have members in state legislatures...
The speaker of theUnitedStates House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of theUnitedStates House...
as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution of theUnitedStates grants plenary power to the president to...
The 2020 UnitedStates presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket...
The history of the lands that became theUnitedStates began with the arrival of the first people inthe Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...
railroad across theUnitedStates connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on May 10, 1869, at Promontory...