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April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865 [a] [b] (4 years, 1 month and 2 ... which afforded the South time to prepare ... (claimed by Confederacy) at the start of the ...
April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born 1809) April 26 – John Wilkes Booth , actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838 ) May 20 – William K. Sebastian , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1861 (born 1812 )
Southern defenders of slavery start describing it as a "positive good", not just a "necessary evil". [101] [102] 1832: Congress enacts a new protective tariff, the Tariff of 1832, which offers South Carolina and the South little relief and provokes new controversy between the sections of the country. [103] [104]
1865 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1865th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 865th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1865, the ...
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.
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865; Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln dies on April 15, 1865; Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president of the United States on April 15, 1865; The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, December 18, 1865
Contemporary woodcut of Johnson being sworn in by Chief Justice Chase as Cabinet members look on, April 15, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln had won the 1860 presidential election as a member of the Republican Party, but, in hopes of winning the support of War Democrats, he ran under the banner of the National Union Party in the 1864 presidential election. [1]
In time, these grants were ceded to the federal government. The first great expansion of the country came with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which doubled the country's territory, although the southeastern border with Spanish Florida was the subject of much dispute until it and Spanish claims to the Oregon Country were ceded to the US in 1821.