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The 173 pages that link to American Civil War, each with the reason it gives.

• Abraham LincolnNarrower topic: Lincoln directed the Union government and military through this defining crisis.

• Emancipation ProclamationNarrower topic: Lincoln issued the proclamation as a measure in the Union’s war against the Confederacy.

• Ulysses S. GrantNarrower topic: Grant’s command and battlefield strategy unfolded within the Union’s struggle to defeat secession.

• Dred Scott v. SandfordNarrower topic: The ruling deepened sectional conflict over slavery that culminated in war.

• Abolitionism in the United StatesNarrower topic: The war created the political and military conditions for slavery’s abolition.

• National Academy of SciencesNarrower topic: The Academy was founded in 1863, amid wartime demands for technical expertise.

• Kansas–Nebraska ActNarrower topic: The act aggravated sectional conflict that contributed to the crisis ending in war.

• Thirteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionNarrower topic: The war made abolition a central question of national policy and constitutional change.

• Harriet TubmanNarrower topic: Tubman served Union forces as a scout, nurse, and guide during the war.

• Missouri CompromiseNarrower topic: The compromise’s eventual collapse reflected the unresolved conflict that culminated in war.

• William Lloyd GarrisonNarrower topic: The war ended slavery nationally, fulfilling the central objective of Garrison’s decades-long campaign.

• Battle of AntietamNarrower topic: Antietam altered the war’s political stakes without ending the conflict.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850Narrower topic: The act contributed to the political conflict that culminated in war.

• John C. CalhounNarrower topic: Calhoun’s defense of slavery and state sovereignty became part of the secessionist political tradition.

• Battle of GettysburgNarrower topic: Gettysburg altered the course and public understanding of this larger conflict.

• JuneteenthNarrower topic: Juneteenth’s announcement came in the final weeks of the war.

• American Anti-Slavery SocietyNarrower topic: The war transformed the political conditions under which the society’s emancipation demand could be achieved.

• George Armstrong CusterNarrower topic: The war gave Custer rapid advancement and his first major cavalry commands.

• EmancipationNarrower topic: The conflict transformed emancipation from a contested political issue into a Union war policy.

• Franklin PierceNarrower topic: Pierce’s sectional crises formed part of the political breakdown preceding the war.

• Jefferson DavisNarrower topic: The war defined Davis’s executive responsibilities and ultimately ended his government.

• Nullification CrisisNarrower topic: The crisis exposed constitutional conflicts that later resurfaced in disputes over secession, though it did not directly cause the war.

• American Equal Rights AssociationNarrower topic: The war’s end opened a political struggle over citizenship and voting rights that shaped the association’s founding.

• Battle of ChancellorsvilleNarrower topic: Chancellorsville was a major Confederate victory in the war’s eastern theater.

• First Battle of Bull RunNarrower topic: Bull Run was the first major land battle of this larger conflict.

• Battle of FredericksburgNarrower topic: Fredericksburg was a major engagement in the war’s Eastern Theater.

• Gettysburg AddressNarrower topic: The speech interprets this conflict as a test of the nation’s founding principles.

• Gone with the WindNarrower topic: The film’s historical setting shapes its account of Southern defeat and social change.

• Jay GouldNarrower topic: Wartime economic upheaval preceded Gould's rise in railroad finance.

• Medal of HonorNarrower topic: Congress created the Medal of Honor during this war.

• Sherman's March to the SeaNarrower topic: The march was a Union campaign within the final year of the war.

• Siege of PetersburgNarrower topic: The campaign's outcome accelerated the Confederacy's defeat in the war.

• Seven Days BattlesNarrower topic: The campaign was an early turning point in the eastern theater of the wider war.

• John Bell HoodNarrower topic: Hood’s command decisions unfolded in the war’s Western Theater during its final years.

• John Wilkes BoothNarrower topic: The Confederacy’s defeat shaped Booth’s turn from kidnapping Lincoln to killing him.

• P. G. T. BeauregardNarrower topic: Beauregard’s military career was shaped by this conflict and its changing theaters.

• Antebellum SouthNarrower topic: Secession over slavery and its political future turned sectional conflict into war.

• Battle of Hampton RoadsNarrower topic: The opposing fleets met while contesting control of a strategic Civil War harbor.

• Battle of the WildernessNarrower topic: The battle was part of the war’s 1864 eastern theater.

• Dorothea DixNarrower topic: The conflict opened a new arena for Dix’s organizing and medical relief work.

• Drew Gilpin FaustNarrower topic: The war and its aftermath anchor much of Faust’s historical writing.

• Henry Ward BeecherNarrower topic: The war transformed the antislavery cause Beecher had promoted into a national political struggle.

• Assassination of Abraham LincolnNarrower topic: The conflict gave Booth his political cause and defined the crisis surrounding the assassination.

• Battle Hymn of the RepublicNarrower topic: The hymn emerged during the war and voiced a Union interpretation of its cause.

• Battle of Fort SumterNarrower topic: The attack prompted the conflict’s first mobilization and opened the war.

• Nelson A. MilesNarrower topic: Miles’s early service in this war preceded his decades of western campaigning.

• Theodore Dwight WeldNarrower topic: The abolitionist movement Weld helped build formed part of the long struggle that preceded emancipation during the war.

• Wild Bill HickokNarrower topic: Hickok’s wartime service and scouting began amid this conflict.

• Allan NevinsNarrower topic: Nevins’s multi-volume history made the conflict a central subject of his scholarship.

• Battle of Appomattox Court HouseNarrower topic: Appomattox became a defining moment in the Confederacy’s military collapse.