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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

• Blues Music
  Mar 24, 2011

  this is a timeline of blues music. enjoy(:

• Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins
  Apr 18, 1865

  The Civil War ends with the surrender of the Confederate Army. Reconstruction begins in the South.

• Emancipation Proclamation
  Jan 1, 1863

  President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, nominally freeing the slaves.

• Civil War Begins
  Apr 12, 1861

  The Civil War begins with the first shots on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.

• Minstrel Shows Gain Popularity
  1830

  The minstrel show, with its blackface performers, crude racial caricatures, and the song "Jump Jim Crow" becomes part of American popular culture.

• The End of Slave Importation
  Jan 1, 1808

  Congress legislates an end to the importation of slaves to the United States.

• Slaves Arrive in the Americas
  1619

  The first African slaves are brought to the American colony of Virginia.