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March 4, 1865 – President Lincoln begins second term; Johnson becomes the 16th vice president; 1865 – Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, captured by a corps of black Union troops; 1865 – Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House; 1865 – Freedmen's Bureau; 1865 - the 13th Amendment was adopted, setting slaves free forever.
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 (2003) Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900–1912. survey by leading scholar; Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform (1962), primary documents
1849–1865 Civil War ... Jim Crow era (1876–1965) Gay Nineties (1890s) ... 1850; Zachary Taylor becomes the 12th president of the United States on March 4, 1849 ...
May 26 – Indigenous tribes who have supported the Confederate States of America hold the Camp Napoleon Council in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). June 2 – American Civil War: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi under General Edmund Kirby Smith surrender at Galveston, Texas under terms negotiated on May 26, becoming the last ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
September 9–20, 1850 – The Compromise of 1850, including the notorious Fugitive Slave Act passed; September 9, 1850 – California becomes a state; November 1850 – Nashville Convention reconvenes; Satisfied with the Compromise, it declares the Union intact-for the moment.
Purported to be evidence of humans in North America during the Pliocene epoch, it turns out to be a hoax. March 13 – The United States Congress overwhelmingly passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 , the first federal legislation to protect the rights of African-Americans; President Andrew Johnson vetoes the bill on March 27, and Congress ...
March 7 – United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech, in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850, in order to prevent a possible civil war. March 16 – Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published in Boston, Massachusetts. March 19 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and ...