United States, 1860s

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/United_States,_1860s

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:United_States_dollar
gptkbp:endDate	1869
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	United States, 1860s
gptkbp:notableBattle	gptkb:Battle_of_Antietam gptkb:Battle_of_Gettysburg gptkb:Siege_of_Vicksburg
gptkbp:notableCase	gptkb:13th_Amendment gptkb:14th_Amendment
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts gptkb:Homestead_Act_of_1862 Freedmen's Bureau established Formation of the Ku Klux Klan First African American senator elected (Hiram Revels, 1870, but elected in 1869) Alaska Purchase (1867) Black Codes enacted in the South First Memorial Day observed (1868) First U.S. income tax (Revenue Act of 1861) Fourteenth Amendment ratified (1868) National Banking Acts Reconstruction Era begins Thirteenth Amendment ratified (1865) Transcontinental Railroad construction begins
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Clara_Barton gptkb:Frederick_Douglass gptkb:Harriet_Tubman gptkb:Jefferson_Davis gptkb:Robert_E._Lee gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:population	about 31 million (1860 Census)
gptkbp:president	gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln gptkb:Andrew_Johnson
gptkbp:significantEvent	gptkb:American_Civil_War gptkb:Emancipation_Proclamation gptkb:Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
gptkbp:startDate	1860
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:The_Civil_War_(musical)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7