as long as there was an equal number of slave states and free states then things tended to be fine in the 40 years leading up to the Civil War

the bloodiest of the Civil War battles

Lincoln fought the Civil War on these grounds

The Dred Scott decision was very pro-Southern

first shots of the Civil War were fired here

father of the Federalist Party

had to cut a deal with Southern Democrats in order for them to accept his fraudulent election

assassinated Lincoln

Southerners were not in control of the post Civil War governments

The space race was driven by Cold War rivalry, but also created cooperation and communication between nations.