The Civil War greatly influenced American literature and culture.

Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln as President and was impeached but not removed from office.

The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 aimed to protect the rights of African Americans.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded during Reconstruction.

Sharecropping became a common labor system in the South after the war.

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help former slaves.

Reconstruction was the period following the Civil War aimed at rebuilding the South.

Lincoln's death came just days after the war ended.