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Region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased.
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It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
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John Brown initiated an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Defeated the three other candidates: Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.
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The Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites.
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Fort Sumter is most famous for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War
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Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas, Virginia, in the first major battle of the American Civil War.
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Also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg.
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Considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. July 1st to the 3rd.
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From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
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Confederate General Robert E.LEe surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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White southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks.
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The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
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It granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States."
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
