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April 15, 1865 – President Lincoln assassinated; Vice President Johnson becomes the 17th president; April–June 1865 – American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender; 1865 – Ku Klux Klan founded; 1865 – Slavery abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. 1866 – Civil Rights Act of 1866
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.
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
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The Civil War - website with more than 7,000 pages of Civil War content, including the complete run of Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civil War. The American Civil War - Detailed listing of events, documents, battles, commanders and important people of the US Civil War; Civil War: Death and Destruction - slideshow by Life magazine
It had almost no support in the South, where it was roundly denounced in 1856–60 as a divisive force that threatened civil war. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The election campaign was a bitter one with a high degree of personal attacks levied at all three candidates—Buchanan, aged 65, was mocked as being too old to be president and for not being married.
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)