The 1913 Reunion of Civil War Veterans attracted over 50,000 ex-Union and Confederate soldiers

Confederate General Robert E. Lee became President of Washington College in Virginia, urging reconciliation between the north and the south

Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, traveled in Europe before returning to the U.S. where she was briefly committed to a mental institution. She died in Springfield, Illinois.

After the Civil War, Union Cavalry General George Armstrong Custer has his force of men massacred by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn

The pounding of the gold spike and the completion of the Transcontinental road in July 1868 immediately connects the country from north to south and ushers in an age of industrial growth that made the U.S. the largest industrial nation in the country, while also ushering an era of robber barons that increased the gap between the rich and the poor

After the Civil War, individuals such as Booker T. Washington begin to start schools to educate the previous slave

As a result of the Great Migration, large numbers of African-Americans move to northern industrial cities for job,

After the Civil War, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross

After the Civil War, black lynchings of men and women alike occur through the south