The Civil War

     In around 1850, the Southern states were rebelling against the Union. In addition, slaves were beginning to get rights in the North.

     In Ford's Theater, in the year 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was attending a play. Suddenly, a shot was fired and the president had been shot! He had been shot by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Booth was eventually caught and hanged for his actions.

     In Appomattox, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865, the Confederacy surrendered to General Roger Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant made the terms of surrendering very generous. He even let them return home with their personal belongings without being tried!

 In the end,(around 1876) the Civil War was over and General Robert E. Lee had surrendered, letting the Union win. Slaves had some rights but not all of the rights whites had.