TIMELINE
March 4, 1865
April 9, 1865
Lincoln’s Second Appomattox Courthouse
Inaugural Address
April 14, 1865
Lincoln Assassinated
Appomattox Courthouse
•Grant’s army captured Richmond, VA
on April 2, 1865
•Lee formally surrenders to Grant at
Appomattox Courthouse on April 9
Grant’s terms of surrender –
•Confederate soldiers must surrender
their guns
•If they promise not to fight, soldiers
can return home.
•Soldiers will not be tried for treason.
THIS IS THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR!
May 1, 1865
Reconstruction
begins
December 18, 1865
13th Amendment
ratified
Lincoln’s Assassination
•Less than a week after the war
ended, at Ford’s Theater, Lincoln
was shot and killed by John Wilkes
Booth. He died the next day.
•Booth, a famous actor, was part of a
conspiracy that was to kill Lincoln and
other northern leaders.
•Booth was hunted down and killed in
a Virginia tobacco barn.
•Other conspirators were captured
and hanged.
•Andrew Johnson became the next
president.
The Wilmer McLean house in 1865 and
today.
The parlor where General Lee
surrendered to General Grant, ending
the Civil War.
Booth’s co-conspirators
the gun Booth
used to kill
Lincoln
Impact of the Civil War
Human Cost
620, 000 Americans died
(2% of the population)
Economic Cost
Union debt in 1865 - $2.7 billion
Confederate debt in 1865 - $700 million
•360,000 Union soldiers died
•260,000 Confederate soldiers died
Union inflation – 180%
Confederate inflation – 9,000%
•275,000 Union soldiers wounded
•260,000 Confederate soldiers wounded
In the South, $1 was worth 2 cents. One
pound of butter cost $25.
Technology
•Rifles
•Cone-shaped bullets
•Photography
•Ironclad ships
•Railroads
•Submarine
•Gatlin gun (machine gun)
In the South, 40% of all livestock was
killed and 50% of all farm machinery
destroyed. They also lost their labor
force (slaves).
Social Changes
13th Amendment – freed the slaves
14th Amendment – granted citizenship to exslaves
15th Amendment – right vote to black males
“free citizens vote”