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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1877–1896 (1919) online complete; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize; Shannon, Fred A. The farmer's last frontier: agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) complete text online; Smythe, Ted Curtis; The Gilded Age Press, 1865–1900 Praeger. 2003.
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.
Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850; The State of California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state on September 9, 1850; The Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah are organized, September 9, 1850; The Territory of Washington is organized ...
Media related to 1865 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons; Booknotes interview with Jay Winik on April 1865: The Month That Saved America, July 29, 2001. "1865". Timeline. Digital Public Library of America. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014.
September 3 – William M. Gwin, U.S. Senator from California from 1850 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1861 (born 1805) October 5 – Thomas C. Durant, railroad financier (born 1820) October 29 – George B. McClellan, soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive and politician (born 1826)
Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; ... (1865–1918) Timeline of United States history (1860–1899) ... Events from the year 1868 in the United States ...
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 ...
June 1 – The 1850 United States census shows that 11.2% of the population classed as "Negro" are of mixed race. June 3 – Traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri 's founding: it is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "Town of Kansas".