The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ... 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation.

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

This war tore the nation apart, with free, federalist states in the North pitted against anti-federalist, slave states in the South. The Civil War’s outcome preserved the political unity of the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

But, our United States, after the Civil War, had a plan in the 13th Amendment ... is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms for free persons was abolished.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political ... It was a battle of ideology rooted in the founding of the nation, in which states’ rights and the institution of slavery were points of extreme ...

The early 1800s mansion has been a school, the home of a member of Virginia’s Mason family and maybe even a wartime hospital.