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Events from the year 1865 in the United States. The American Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate States , beginning the Reconstruction era of U.S. history. Incumbents
From 1865 through 1918 an unprecedented and diverse stream of immigrants arrived in the United States, 27.5 million in total. In all, 24.4 million (89%) came from Europe, including 2.9 million from Great Britain , 2.2 million from Ireland , 2.1 million from Scandinavia , 3.8 million from Germany , 4.1 million from Italy , 7.8 million from ...
1865 was a common year ... Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States upon Lincoln's death and is sworn in later that morning.
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.
Premised on the surrender of all Confederate Armies east of the Mississippi River, on May 11, 1865, Gen. Grant issued General Orders No. 90 from the War Department stating "That from and after the first day of June, 1865, any and all persons found in arms against the United States, or who may commit acts of hostility against it east of the ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
To fill the new factory jobs, immigrants poured into the United States in the first mass wave of immigration in the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the period of old immigration, this time saw 4.2 million immigrants come into the United States raising the overall population by 20 million people. Historians often describe this as a time of "push-pull ...