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.
Ambivalent Americans living in the border states during the Civil War; Proslavery Marylanders who attacked federal troops marching to Washington, D.C., in 1861; Proslavery Missourians who rushed to Kansas after Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act; British troops stationed in Canada who threatened Lincoln with war over the Trent Affair