1865
Confederacy's final year
1865 is the year the American Civil War ended and President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
The number often appears in historical contexts referencing Reconstruction, the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, or the end of the Confederacy: The plantation system collapsed after 1865.
In addresses, it's simply a street number.
Constitutional ban on bondage
- slaveryOwnership of people
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
abolitionists · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Underground Railroad · antislavery · manumission · bondage · servitude
Midwestern state capital
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- Andrew JohnsonPost-Civil War president
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
John Wilkes Booth · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Radical Republicans · Juneteenth · segregation · Jim Crow · Ku Klux Klan
Thirteenth Amendment
Constitutional ban on bondage
- slaveryOwnership of people
- freedomAbsence of constraint
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
liberation · abolitionists · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Underground Railroad · antislavery · manumission · bondage · servitude · human rights
Lincoln
Midwestern state capital
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- Andrew JohnsonPost-Civil War president
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
John Wilkes Booth · sharecropping · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Radical Republicans · Juneteenth · segregation · Jim Crow · Ku Klux Klan · freedmen
- Lincoln assassinationJohn Wilkes Booth, Ford's Theatre, assassination, Booth, derringer
- timelinestimelines, chronology, chronologies, time periods, historical periods
1865antebellum
Before a war's start
1861 · pre-war · 1850 · plantation era · 1854
18651861
Civil War's start
disunion · secession · Fort Sumter · Confederate States · divided nation