I should notify Mr. Herston as soon as an issue arises.

What problem prompted the Compromise of 1877?

How did Abraham Lincoln differ from Stephen Douglas on the issue of slavery?

Which of the following was one of the Enforcement Acts designed to counter racial terrorism?

How did the Ku Klux Klan affect the election of 1868?

Which of the following legislation’s primary purpose was to divide the South into five military districts subject to martial law?

Why was “Bleeding Kansas” such a significant step toward civil war?

What was Lincoln’s primary military objective at the beginning of the war?

 “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”The excerpt above, is describing which amendment?

“And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.”—Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863In what way, if any, was the Emancipation Proclamation so significant?