Sentence:  Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the <WSD>Federal</WSD> treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War