Civil War
- Antietam
- Appomattox Court House
- Bull Run, First Battle
- Draft riots of 1863
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Gettysburg
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Homestead Act
- Lee, Robert E.
- McClellan, George
- Monitor and Merrimac
- Morrill Land Grant Act
- Peninsula Campaign
- Sherman's March
- Trent affair
- Vicksburg
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- 10 percent plan
- black codes
- Compromise of 1877
- crop-lien system
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Johnson's impeachment
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lincoln's assassination
- Radical Republicans
- scalawags and carpetbaggers
- sharecropping
- Slaughterhouse cases
- Tenure of Office Act
- Wade-Davis Bill