The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the secession of t
The Union had large advantages in men and resources at the start of the war, and the ratio grew steadily in its favor as the war progressed. In the chart, "cauc men" means white men (Caucasian).[image reference needed]
Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862.
An anti-Lincoln Copperhead Democrats pamphlet from 1864
Union soldiers on Mason's Island, later renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island, on the Potomac River in 1861
The United States of America, also known as the United States or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital distri
Union (American Civil War)
…The Union is a term used to refer to the federal government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War. Its military forces and civilian population resisted the secession of the Southern slave states that formed the Confederate…
Cliff Palace, a settlement of ancestors of the Native American Pueblo peoples in present-day Montezuma County, Colorado, built between c. 1200 and 1275
The Declaration of Independence portrait depicts the Committee of Five presenting the Declaration to the Continental Congress on June 28, 1776, in Philadelphia.
U.S. marines raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima (1945). This photo became one of the most honored images of World War II.
Civil rights activists during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. in August 1963