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.
The salient cause of the Civil War was the conflict between slave and free states over the future of slavery in the United States. The conflict was kept from boiling over in the early decades of the 19th century because of political compromises and a rough equivalence between the numbers of slave and free states.