This essentially overturned the Compromise of 1820, by declaring that new states could choose whether they would be free or slave, in addition to adding California as a free state, and a harsher fugitive slave act.

This island fortification off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, was the first site of violence in the Civil War when Confederate troops opened fire on it in April of 1861.

The HL Hunley, designed by a southern engineer, overcame several disastrous launches to become the first one of these to successfully sink another vessel in wartime.

They began as a Confederate veterans club, then quickly became a white supremacist organization that used terrorism to try and keep African Americans as second class citizens.

This was one of the biggest scandals of the Grant administration, involving bribes being given by distilleries to tax collectors in order to avoid paying taxes on their alcohol.

Refers to the twelve years in between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the Compromise of 1877 ending the occupation of the southern states by federal troops. A time to repair the nation, literally and figuratively.

A former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, he was the first, and only, president of the Confederacy.

Stonewall Jackson got his nickname from holding the line at the first Battle of Bull Run, but later died as a result of friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Which army did he fight for?

A three day battle in southern Pennsylvania, this was the largest one of the war, as George McClellan managed to defeat Robert E. Lee's attempt to invade the north in 1863.