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 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 Mexican War was the occasion for the United States’ first

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:

Andrew Johnson was

The author insight video on Abraham Lincoln states that at the beginning of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln’s main goal was to free the slaves.

According to the author insight video on Slavery and the Civil War, the majority of historians deny that slavery was the fundamental cause of the Civil War.