President Franklin Pierce completed the Mexican cession through the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico in what year

Northern Republicans who moved south to seek their fortunes after the Civil War were called

Who was the U.S. senator from Kentucky who introduced a compromise in 1860 in an effort to avoid a civil war?

In order to help manage and assist the newly emancipated slaves, the federal government passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 was designed to end the Black Codes by giving African Americans full citizenship