Civil War era
Blue versus gray
The Civil War era refers to the period surrounding the American Civil War (1861–1865), typically including the years of rising sectional tension before and Reconstruction afterward—roughly 1850 to 1877.
The phrase appears in discussions of antebellum slavery, wartime politics, and postwar social upheaval: Civil War era photographs, a Civil War era farmhouse.
- AbolitionismMovement to end slavery
- Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
- Underground RailroadCovert abolitionist escape network
- Fort SumterSouth Carolina coastal fortification
- brother against brotherRelatives warring against each other
Emancipation Proclamation · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · Kansas-Nebraska Act · Clara Barton · Fugitive Slave Act · John Brown · Freedmen's Bureau · Jefferson Davis · Confederate flag · Antebellum South · Jim Crow laws · Missouri Compromise · Gettysburg Address · Battle of Gettysburg · ironclad ships · Yankee · Ulysses S. Grant
- Spanish ErasGolden Age, Siglo de Oro, Silver Age, medieval, colonial
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, US Constitution
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- New York historyEllis Island, Tammany Hall, Erie Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park
- American HistoryAmerican Revolution, Revolutionary War, colonial era, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence
Civil War eraReconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
modern era · Gilded Age · Progressive Era · Roaring Twenties · colonial period
Civil War erapeacetime
Absence of armed conflict
interwar period · domestic tranquility · armistice · demilitarization