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 South compromised many times prior to the Civil War: the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Slave Trade Compromise, Hamilton's debt assumption plan, the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise Tariff of 1833, the Compromise of 1850, even the last-minute Crittenden Compromise that was proposed (but not accepted).