| Id terms | year |
| John Tyler | |
| Dred Scott | |
| John Slidell | |
| Thorton Affair | |
| John C Fremont | |
| Wilmont Proviso | |
| Spot Resolution | |
| Nicholas Trist | |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago | |
| California Gold Rush | |
| Free Soil Party | |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| Stephen Douglas | |
| Popular Sovereignty | |
| Fugitive Slacve Act | |
| John Brown | |
| Bleeding Kansas | |
| Border Ruffians | |
| Charles Sumner | |
| Preston Brooks | |
| Harpers Ferry | |
| Start of Radical Republicans | |
| Confederate Constitution | |
| Battle of Antietam | |
| George Meade | |
| | Id terms | year |
| Gettysburg | |
| Sherman's March to sea | |
| Appomattox | |
| Copperheads | |
| Emancipation Proclamation | |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | |
| Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address | |
| George McClellan | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | |
| Wade-Davis Bill | |
| 13th Amendment | |
| 14th Amendment | |
| 15th Amendment | |
| John Wilkes Booth | |
| Andrew Johnson | |
| Freeman's Bureau | |
| Field Order 15 | |
| Southern Homestead Act | |
| Black Codes | |
| Sharecropping | |
| Carpetbaggers & Scalawags | |
| Ku Klux Klan | |
| Liberal Republicans | |
| Election of 1876 | |
| Black Dispatches | |
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