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The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

The Kansas-Nebraska Act implemented the concept of popular sovereignty to decide whether to admit Kansas…

John Brown's Raid

It is difficult to imagine that slavery would have ceased to exist in the United States as quickly as…

The Army of the Potomac

The Army of the Potomac deserves a claim as the best army of the Civil War because it accomplished the…

John C. Pemberton

John C. Pemberton was one of the few norther natives to serve as a general in the Confederate armies.

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