Impact of the Civil War

Final Events

100

The last official emancipation of slaves took place on THIS day.

Juneteenth/June 19th

200

Lee surrendered to Grant in THIS Virginia village.

Appomattox Court House

300

The Hampton Roads Peace Conference was unsuccessful due to THIS.

The Thirteenth Amendment

Northern Victory

100

THIS U.S. President is regarded as one of the finest in history.

Abraham Lincoln

200

Mathew Brady published photographs of the Civil War's tragic reality in THIS post.

The Dead at Antietam

300

The U.S. adopted THIS phrase as a cover-up of the decay caused by the Civil War.

The Gilded Age

Impact

100

THIS region greatly suffered economically after the Civil War.

The South

200

An 1862 tariff's goal was to protect against THIS.

The North's foreign competition

300

The Land Grant College Act put THIS toward universities for agriculture and mechanics.

Public land sales