Facts

APUSH Definition — Lewis Armistead (1817–1863) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Key facts about the violence experienced in the Kansas Territory prior to the American Civil War.

APUSH Definition — Benjamin Butler (1818–1893) was an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. He was also a United States Congressman and Governor of Massachusetts.

APUSH Definition — Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914) was an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. He earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Key facts about the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

APUSH Definition — Charles Clark (1811–1877) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He is most well-known for being the governor of Mississippi during the war

Key facts about the House Committee of Thirty-three.

Key facts about the Compromise of 1850.

Key facts about the Confiscation Act of 1862, also known as the Second Confiscation Act.

APUSH Definition — General George Armstrong Custer (1814–1879) was an officer in the United States Army. He served in the Civil War and Indian Wars and is most well-known for his defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Darbytown Road Battle facts, including dates, location, casualties, leaders, who won, and more interesting facts you might not know.

First Deep Bottom Battle facts, including dates, location, casualties, leaders, who won, and more interesting facts you might not know.

Second Deep Bottom Battle facts, including dates, location, casualties, leaders, who won, and more interesting facts you might not know.

Important facts about Stephen A. Douglas, a three-term United States Senator who championed popular sovereignty and was influential in the enactment of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

Key facts about the Dred Scott v. Sandford U.S. Supreme Court case.

Droop Mountain Battle facts, including dates, location, casualties, leaders, who won, and more interesting facts you might not know.

APUSH Definition — Jubal Early (1816–1894) was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He participated in almost every major battle that the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged in but is most well known for promoting the "Lost Cause Theory" after the war, which downplayed the role of slavery as a cause of the war.

Key facts about the Emancipation Proclamation.

Facts about the Enrollment Act (aka Conscription Act) that established procedures for implementing federally mandated drafts in Congressional districts that did not meet prescribed quotas for volunteer enlistments during the Civil War.

Key facts about Hugh Boyle Ewing, a lawyer, writer, ambassador and soldier, who served the Union army as a general officer in the Eastern and Western theaters during the American Civil War.