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  1. Hace 1 día · April 12, 1861 - April 26, 1865. Location: United States. Participants: Confederate States of America. United States. Major Events: Battle of Antietam. Fort Pillow Massacre. Battle of Gettysburg. Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack. Battle of Monocacy. (Show more) Key People: James Buchanan. Ulysses S. Grant.

  2. Hace 1 día · On May 13, 1865, the last land battle of the war was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas. On May 26, 1865, Confederate Lt. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, acting for Edmund Smith, signed a military convention surrendering the Confederate trans-Mississippi Department forces.

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  3. Hace 1 día · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.

  4. Hace 1 día · 1865: Carl Wilhelm Siemens and Pierre-Émile Martin invented the Siemens-Martin process for making steel. 1867: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, the first safely manageable explosive stronger than black powder. 1867: Lucien B. Smith invents barbed wire, which Joseph F. Glidden will modify in 1874, leading to the taming of the West and ...

  5. Hace 5 días · The 13th Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery, but freed Black peoples’ status in the post-war South remained precarious, and significant challenges awaited ...

  6. Hace 5 días · How is Juneteenth celebrated? How did the American civil rights movement affect Juneteenth celebrations? Juneteenth, holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. (Read Charles Blow’s Britannica essay on the Juneteenth holiday.)

  7. Hace 4 días · In the early months of the American Revolution, the first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. It comprised the 22,000 militia troops then besieging Boston and an additional 5,000 militiamen in New York. It was placed under the control of a five-member civilian ...