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unusual facts about Southern States


Theodore B. Lewis

He served a mission to the Southern States, then in 1870 began teaching at a school that later became Brigham Young Academy.


White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs

He also modified the focus of the series, including documentation of churches and public buildings and the recording of interiors and millwork details He also expanded the geographic scope of the project, documenting buildings in the southern states, many of which had been framed with Southern pine or Cypress.

William Lowndes Yancey Law Office

As one of the leading Southern Fire-Eaters, he gained national influence as an aggressive advocate of Slavery and States' Rights and exacerbated sectional differences that led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union.


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Benjamin W. Leigh

(Source: The Origin of the Late War Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States. By George Lunt New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866 p. 89)

Columbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War

Firsthand accounts by local residents, Union soldiers, and a newspaper reporter offer a tale of revenge by Union troops for Columbia's and South Carolina's pivotal role in leading Southern states to secede from the Union, whereas other accounts (as documented in, for example, James W. Loewen's Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong) portray it as mostly the fault of the Confederacy.

Cosmetidae

A few species now in Vonones reach far northwards into the USA, were they occur in many of the southern states.

Daily American Times

were Charles G. Baylor, a vocal proponent of direct trade for the Southern states; Roswell S. Ripley (later a Confederate Brigadier General); and Charles W. Brush.

English Dresden

As luck would have it, within a year of expressing this desire the American Civil War stopped supplies of cotton from the southern states, and the commodity soared in value; hence the merchant was suddenly able to raise the money to buy the English Dresden

Epaminondas and His Auntie

The eponymous character is a young black boy, and the stories are based on a folk tales from the Southern states of the U.S. Like Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo, which was originally written about a boy from Southern India but was later illustrated in many printings with stereotypes of African-Americans, the Epaminondas books have been criticised as having racist overtones and stereotypes.

Henry Winter Davis

Defeated that year for reelection to Congress, in the winter of 1860 and 1861 - between the secession of some Southern states and the beginning of the Civil War with the assault on Fort Sumner - Davis was involved in compromise measures.

Identification of trees of the United States

The following guide applies to the trees which are indigenous to the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the northern boundaries of the southern states, together with a few well-known and naturalized foreign trees.

If the South Woulda Won

The song is about what Hank would've done as President of the southern States, had the South won the Civil War.

James Redpath

Beginning in March 1854, he traveled in the South to examine slavery for himself, interviewing slaves and collecting material published in 1859 as The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. The book's production costs were covered by prominent antislavery philanthropist Gerrit Smith.

John Taras

He performed at the 1939 New York World's Fair with Ballet Caravan at the Ford Pavilion and joined Catherine Littlefield's Philadelphia Ballet for a 1941 tour of the southern states and in 1942 was in the Broadway revival of J. M. Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella.

Mamadou Danso

Danso was recruited to play soccer for North Carolina Wesleyan College and also went on to play two years of college soccer at Southern Polytechnic State University, where he was a two-time All-Southern States Athletic Conference selection.

Manumission

In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery after the American Civil War in 1866.

Mattu Pongal

Though the name of the festival is specific to Tamil Nadu, in India, it is also celebrated in other southern states such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Nantucket shipbuilding

There were no large trees on Nantucket to provide long dimension timbers for ship building or building construction and importing Live oak from southern states was essential.

Peabody Education Fund

Founded of necessity due to damage caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.

Post-presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

The Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden of New York, and the election that year was undecided for several months, due to voting irregularities in three Southern states.

Sharp Airlines

Sharp Airlines is a regional airline headquartered in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia and operating in the southern states of Australia.

Southeastern Library Association

The goals that were identified in 1929, by the Policy Committee, were achieved with the financial support from three educational foundations: (1) The Julius Rosenwald Fund provided support to numerous school and college libraries for African Americans, sponsored demonstration programs of public library service, and laid the foundation for library extension work in the South through grants to several southern states.

Southern AIDS Living Quilt

More than 80 women are represented on the Living Quilt from 13 southern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Swing state

For instance, a Republican candidate (the more conservative of the two major parties) can expect to easily win many of the Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, which historically have a very conservative culture, very religious, and a more recent history of voting for Republican candidates.

Terri Garber

The six-part miniseries, with a running time of 90 minutes each episode, dealt with the society in both northern and southern states before the American Civil War and was aired by ABC TV.

Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States

1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only.

Union of Arras

The Union of Arras (Dutch: Unie van Atrecht, Spanish: Unión de Arrás) was an accord signed on 6 January 1579 in Arras (Atrecht), under which the southern states of the Netherlands, today in Wallonia and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais (and Picardy) régions in France and Belgium, expressed their loyalty to the Spanish king Philip II and recognized his Governor-General, Don Juan of Austria.