1866
Reconstruction era year
1866 is a year in the mid-nineteenth century, notable in American history as the first full year after the Civil War ended and President Lincoln was assassinated.
It saw the beginning of Reconstruction and passage of the Civil Rights Act.
In casual reference, 1866 evokes the post-war American frontier era: This place looks like it hasn't been updated since 1866.
Countrymen fighting countrymen
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- post-bellumAfter a war ends
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- Lincoln assassinationMurder of sixteenth president
13th Amendment · Freedmen's Bureau · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Confederate · Union · Gilded Age · Victorian era
Brothers Karamazov author
- OffenbachGerman-French operetta composer
- operettaComic musical theater piece
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- realismAccepting things as they are
Crime and Punishment · Pre-Raphaelites · minstrelsy · penny dreadful · lithograph
Explosive compound, cardiac drug
- velocipedeEarly pedal-driven vehicle
- tin canSealed metal food container
- kerosene lampWick-based fuel light
- sewing machineDevice for joining fabric
refrigeration · steam engine · ironclad ships · suspension bridge
Civil War
Countrymen fighting countrymen
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- post-bellumAfter a war ends
- antebellumBefore a war's start
Lincoln assassination · 13th Amendment · Freedmen's Bureau · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Confederate · Union · Gilded Age · Victorian era · industrialization
Civil Rights Act
Law prohibiting discrimination
Dostoyevsky
Brothers Karamazov author
- OffenbachGerman-French operetta composer
- operettaComic musical theater piece
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
Crime and Punishment · realism · Pre-Raphaelites · minstrelsy · penny dreadful · lithograph
nitroglycerin
Explosive compound, cardiac drug
- velocipedeEarly pedal-driven vehicle
- tin canSealed metal food container
- kerosene lampWick-based fuel light
sewing machine · refrigeration · steam engine · ironclad ships · suspension bridge
1866antebellum
Before a war's start
antebellum era · pre-war · 1859 · 1858 · 1850