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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.
The Spanish Empire declares war on the United States, April 23, 1898; Invasion of Guantánamo Bay, June 6, 1898 – June 10, 1898; Capture of Guam, June 20, 1898 – June 21, 1898; Battle of Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898; Invasion of Puerto Rico, July 25, 1898 – August 13, 1898; Protocol of Peace signed on August 12, 1898; Treaty of Paris ...
June 19 – American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation (an event celebrated in modern times each year as Juneteenth). June 21 – Lewis E. Parsons is appointed by Andrew Johnson as the 19th governor of Alabama. [3]
U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens was one of the major policymakers regarding Reconstruction, and obtained a House vote of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. Hans Trefousse, his leading biographer, concludes that Stevens "was one of the most influential representatives ever to serve in Congress.
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 ...
May 12 – Bombardment of San Juan, the first major battle of the Puerto Rico Campaign during the Spanish–American War. June 1 – The Trans-Mississippi Exposition World's Fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
1898 (United States) American Labor Union founded. [20] 1898 (United States) Marlboro, Massachusetts, Shoe Workers' Strike began. [20] Miner extracting ore from Bunker Hill mine 1899 (United States) Miners in Idaho dynamite a mill in retaliation for the Bunker Hill Mining Company firing 17 union members. [25] 1899 (United States) Brotherhood of ...
William Seward served as Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869.. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1861 to 1897 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison.