Why is the battle at Fort Donelson significant?

What was the main reason Congress impeached Andrew Johnson?

On what issue did the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates largely agree during the 1876 campaign?

President Johnson fully broke with Congress in 1866 when he:

The Military Reconstruction Act:

What effect did the Union naval blockade of southern ports have on the Confederacy?

The Mexican War was the occasion for the United States’ first

The author insight video on Slavery and the Civil War points out that the proposal to arm the slaves and to use them as part of the Confederate armies in 1865 was ultimately rejected by Confederate leaders.

The presidential election of 1852 was the catalyst leading seven Southern states to secede from the United States and to form what was called the Confederate States of America, the CSA.

The 1866 congressional elections: