The Radical Republicans were eager to see Southerners return to Congress.

John Brown’s first raid took place here

as long as there was an equal number of slave states and free states then things tended to be fine in the 40 years leading up to the Civil War

the bloodiest of the Civil War battles

first shots of the Civil War were fired here

Lincoln fought the Civil War on these grounds

The Dred Scott decision was very pro-Southern

father of the Federalist Party

assassinated Lincoln

had to cut a deal with Southern Democrats in order for them to accept his fraudulent election