11) Jim Crow laws. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and muncipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is...
12) Barton, Clara. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...A reformer and nurse of the nineteenth century, who founded the American Red Cross in the 1880s. She had organized nursing care for Union soldiers during the Civil...
13) Johnston Atoll. The World Factbook. 2003
...Johnston Atoll in 1858, but it was the US that mined the guano deposits until the late 1880s. The US Navy took over the atoll in 1934, and subsequently the US Air...
14) Canfield, Richard Albert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bedford, Mass. A well-known gambling operator in Providence, R.I., Canfield went in the 1880s to New York, where his gambling establishment became famous. It was...
15) Barstow. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(1990 pop. 21,472), San Bernardino co., SE Calif., on the dry Mojave River; founded in the 1880s as a silver-mining town, inc. 1947. Railroad shops and the Goldstone...
16) Asti. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...village, Sonoma co., W Calif., in Russian R. valley, 27 mi/43 km NW of Santa Rosa. Settled in 1880s as Ital.-Swiss colony....
17) 3. British North America, 1789-1914. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World
History
...FORMED 1867 (MAP) a. Overview The period between the American Revolution and the 1880s witnessed major transformations in Canadian society. The country made the transition...
18) Chisholm Trail. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...from San Antonio, Texas, north to Abilene, Kansas. It was important from the 1860s to the 1880s, when it fell into disuse following the expansion of the railroads...
19) Carlsbad, cities, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
.... 1 City (1990 pop. 63,126), San Diego co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; settled in the 1880s, inc. 1952. Carlsbad is a booming San Diego suburb; its population...
20) Camp, Walter Chauncey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...administrator, b. New Britain, Conn. In his three years as captain at Yale Univ. in the 1880s, Camp shaped the rules that transformed rugby football into American...
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