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United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The Battle

Chester Rural Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery founded in March 1863 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Some of the first burials were Civil War soldiers, both

Gould, also operated in Pennsylvania. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. oil industry was born in Western Pennsylvania, which supplied the

41st-largest state in the United States. West Virginia borders Pennsylvania and Maryland in the northeast, Virginia in the southeast, Ohio in the northwest

been codified in American Samoa, and matters of federal law arising in American Samoa have generally been adjudicated in U.S. district courts in Hawaii or

cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order

network of mostly physical scientists working in the vicinity of Cambridge, Massachusetts (c. 1850). In 1863, the organizers enlisted the support of Alexander

of the Chief Justice". University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Law School) 154 (6): 1665–1707. doi:10

designated in many other countries. As the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have a substantial impact in the

U.S. forces defeated Spain in land campaigns in Cuba and played the central role in the Philippine–American War. Starting in 1910, the army began acquiring

13 to 26, 1863, towns along the Ohio River were attacked and ransacked in Morgan's Raid, starting in Harrison in the west and culminating in the Battle

continued to serve in the Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel in 1953. (Note: President George W. Bush served in the National Guard in the late 1960s and

developed in legal cases like those of John Punch in 1640 and John Casor in 1655. Laws passed in Jamestown defined slavery as race-based in 1661, as inherited

states and reported in their newspapers. John Marshall in Virginia, James Wilson in Pennsylvania and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut all argued for Supreme

delivery began in the larger cities in 1863. File:USPostRoadMap1804.jpg The postal system played a crucial role in national expansion. It facilitated expansion

published expedition's map, located in the Las Vegas area John C. Frémont set up camp in Las Vegas Springs in 1844. In 1847, Mormons established the State

since 1997, received votes in speaker elections. In 1787, while the proposed Constitution was being considered, Pennsylvania Congress of the Confederation

ruled. From 1863 to 1913, a system of national banks was instituted by the 1863 National Banking Act during which series of bank panics, in 1873, 1893,

gold discovered in Montana was at Gold Creek near present-day Garrison in 1852. The Gold rush in the region commenced in earnest starting in 1862. A series

building in small numbers. The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the National Gallery of Art's research institute, was founded in 1979