Sentence:  Homes and factories and schools and a big wide <WSD>federal</WSD> highway , instead of peaceful corn to rest your eyes on while you tried to rest your heart , while you tried not to look at the balloon and the bandstand and the uniforms and the flash of the instruments . 
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