Prior to the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the American League and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations.

Prior to the American Civil War, much of the Southern United States was covered in vast tracts of primeval hardwood forests that were suitable as habitat for the bird.

Prior to the formation of the OSS ( the American version of the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive ), American intelligence had been conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments.

* 1980 – Mark Prior, American baseball player

Prior to the rise of the railroad industry, rivers and canals were the major " highways of commerce " in the American Midwest.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

Prior to the beginning of negotiations, the Japanese allegedly made the Taft-Katsura Agreement with the U. S. in July 1905, which agreed to Japanese control of Korea, in return for American dominance in the Philippines.

Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.

Prior studies had also assumed a clear glycemic threshold between people at high and low risk of diabetic retinopathy .< ref name =" pmid9203460 "> However, it has been shown that the widely accepted WHO and American Diabetes Association diagnostic cutoff for diabetes of a fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7. 0 mmol / l ( 126 mg / dl ) does not accurately identify diabetic retinopathy among patients.

Prior to the missions, the American Indians had developed a complex, self-sufficient culture.

Prior to the American War of Independence, the only Regular Army unit in Bermuda was an Independent Company, based in St. George's.

Prior to the Spanish conquest ( 1519 – 1522 ) most of present day Mexico formed the Aztec Empire, a native American empire ruled from Tenochtitlán ( present day Mexico City ) by a tlatoani or " emperor ".

Prior to his career as a cameraman, Bitzer developed early cinematic technologies for the American Mutoscope Company, eventually to become the Biograph Company.

Prior to its North American release, game play footage from Super Mario Bros. 3 appeared in the Universal Studios film The Wizard, which helped fuel its fans ' anticipation.

Prior to the Europeans ' arrival to the area, it was inhabited by numerous Native American tribes, with the Cowlitz tribe being the largest.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the land that would become Nottoway County was inhabited by American Indians of the Nadowa tribe, an Iroquoian people.

Prior to the arrival of foreign settlers, the area that would later become Kimble County was inhabited by several Native American groups, including the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Lipan Apache.

Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams ' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780 ; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781 ; and Bush River, May 1781.

Prior to 1837, the land was used by Native American tribes, primarily the Sac / Fox and Potawatomi, as prime hunting grounds.

Prior to the American Civil War, the center of activity focused upon " Calhoun's Landing ," named for the cotton and sugar planter Meredith Calhoun, a native of South Carolina.

Prior to that time the region was populated by a variety of Native American tribes.

Prior to his death, he was also working on a book called The War Racket: The Lies, Myths, and Propaganda that Feed the American War Machine.

Prior to the American Civil War, area roads were few and undeveloped.

Prior to European settlement, Native American tribes, including the Quapaw and later the Cherokee Indians, lived in the area.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

* Woodson, C. G., The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War.

Prior to the Civil War, militia units were sometimes used by southern states for slave control.

Prior to his days as a leading member of the Yippie movement, Hoffman was involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), and organized " Liberty House ", which sold items to support the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States.

Prior to the Civil War, the Pottawatomie Massacre ( May 24 – 25, 1856 ) was one of the many bloody episodes in Kansas preceding which came to be known collectively as Bleeding Kansas.

Prior to that date, airworthiness standards for airplanes in the normal, utility and acrobatic categories were promulgated in Part 3 of the US Civil Air Regulations.

Prior to that date, airworthiness standards for airplanes in the transport category were promulgated in Part 4b of the US Civil Air Regulations.

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance.

Prior to the Civil War, the county was the second wealthiest in the state ; its resources of timber and rich soil ( farmed for a diversity of crops including rye, corn, oats, tobacco, potatoes, wheat, peas, barley, and hay ) provided a stable economy, as opposed to reliance on one cash crop.

Prior to the Civil War, cotton farming was the main occupation in Butler County.

Prior to the Civil War, the landscape was dominated by several large plantations, the remains of which survive as archaeological sites.

Prior to the American Civil War, some groups worked to establish a Western District of Columbia to include present-day Metropolis and the nearby area of Kentucky.

Prior to the American Civil War, the land of what is now called Louisburg was part of that reserved for members of various tribes of Native Americans that were ceding their lands in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.

Prior to the American Civil War, it was known as " Calhoun's Landing ," named for the cotton and sugar planter Meredith Calhoun, a native of South Carolina.

Prior to the American Civil War, Natchez had the most millionaires per capita of any city in the United States.

Prior to being called West Long Branch, the area had been called Mechanicsville from the 18th century through the Civil War, and then Branchburg in the 1870s.

Prior to the Civil War they were joined by the Roe, Leonard and Stansfield families, who helped establish St. Mary's Episcopal Church and leading businesses like a general store and the Leonard Wax Company.

Prior to the American Civil War, the area was known locally as White Hill, which served as a stop along the Cumberland Valley Railroad between Harrisburg and Carlisle.

Prior to, and during, the Civil War, many abolitionists lived in the area, and several locations within the town of Lewisburg served as stopping points on the famous Underground Railroad.

Prior to the American Civil War, Mogadore served as a station on the underground railroad.

Prior to that, it had been claimed but with no control over the region by Somaliland since the 1991 events of the Somali Civil War.