Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) in the Senate the day before the spending bill passed. "We have never done this before, and we should not be doing it without a full debate." According to critics, what makes this a national ID--as opposed to another form of classification such as a ...
Alabama,constituentstateof theUnited States of America, admitted to the union in 1819 as the 22nd state. Alabama forms a roughly rectangular shape on the map, elongated in a north-south direction. It is bordered byTennesseeto the north,Georgiato the east, andMississippito the west. TheFlorida...
Its neighbours are Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. The name Arkansas was used by the early French explorers to refer to the Quapaw people—a prominent indigenous group in the area—and ...
Except for two nearly circular patches of rich limestone country—the Nashville Basin of Tennessee and the Kentucky Bluegrass region—most of both plateau regions consists of sandstone uplands, intricately dissected by streams. Local relief runs to several hundreds of feet in most places, and ...
, but the action of both states was irregular. The other 11 states thatconstitutedthe Confederacy had all been carried out of the Union by conventions elected by the people—except Tennessee, where the full legislature acted. All except Tennessee had asserted their constitutional right to secede....
(on the borders ofTennesseeandNorth Carolina) to the marshes of the Atlantic coast on the southeast and theOkefenokee Swamp(which it shares withFlorida) on the south. TheSavannahandChattahoocheerivers form much of Georgia’s eastern and western boundaries withSouth CarolinaandAlabama, respectively. ...