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Recent Event Highlights: Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins, Civil War Begins, and 5 more...
Created by bmqskiis316 on Mar 23, 2011
Last updated: 03/25/11 at 10:12 AM
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The Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate Army. Reconstruction begins in the South.
President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, nominally freeing the slaves.
The Civil War begins with the first shots on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
The minstrel show, with its blackface performers, crude racial caricatures, and the song "Jump Jim Crow" becomes part of American popular culture.
Congress legislates an end to the importation of slaves to the United States.
The first African slaves are brought to the American colony of Virginia.