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  1. 1 day ago · v. t. e. 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 had been formed by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery ...

    • April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, (4 years, 1 month and 2 weeks)
  2. 4 days ago · On the night of April 14 1865, while watching a play at Ford's Theatre with his wife, Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by actor John Wilkes Booth. He died the next day, April 15 1865. Lincoln was the first President of the United States to be assassinated.

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  4. 2 days ago · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain ’s North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a peace treaty in 1783. The colonies won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and ...

  5. 5 days ago · The Supreme Court’s 1883 ruling in In the 1880s legislation strengthened segregation in the South. By the 1890s it had become entrenched. the Civil Rights Cases spurred states to enact segregation laws. Between 1887 and 1892, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and ...

  6. 2 days ago · The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...

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    5 days ago · t. e. In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined ...

  8. 6 days ago · Post Civil War United States, 1865–1892. A map of the United States after the American Civil War showing political facts, boundaries, and conflicts regarding the post-Civil War reconstruction. Source: The American Republic (Chicago, IL: John W. Iliff and Co., 1892) 25. Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman.

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