program. 1  Obs. a proclamation. a prospectus or syllabus. 2  the acts, speeches, musical pieces, etc. that make up an entertainment, ceremony, etc. a printed list of these. 3  a scheduled broadcast on radio or television. 4  a plan or procedure for dealing with some matter.
Trent Affair: 1861-1862. The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
After Britain had officially declared its neutrality in the American war in May 1861, the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis â a Mississippi planter, Secretary of War under U.S. President Franklin Pierce, and former U. S. senator â strongly supported what became known as King Cotton diplomacy.