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| South America & Caribbean:A dictator in Paraguay faces Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil in war. Blacks in Jamaica revolt and are suppressed, but the governor is dismissed for his actions. | |||||||||||
| North America:The Civil War ends and five days later Lincoln is assassinated. Andrew Johnson, a southerner, becomes president. The Ku Klux Klan is organized in Tennessee. The 13th Amendment which prohibits slavery is ratified. The U. S. greenback is worth 46 cents; Confederate money is worthless. Andrew Carnegie enters the steel business; Rockefeller expands his Cleveland refinery business; Vanderbilt expandss a New York railroad. Pratt and Whitney formed and will become major producer of machine tools and engines. Cornell University, Lehigh University, Universities of Kentucky and Maine. The Nation , San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. Fiction by Mark Twain; poetry by Whitman; painting by Winslow Homer. Stetson "Tewn Gallon" hat in Philadelphia. First train robbery. Trading of grain futures in Chicago. Fleischmann yeast and Busch brewery have beginnings. Chicago has become largest packing center because of the late war. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Salvation Army formed in London. Gregor Mendel studies genetics. Fiction by Lewis Carroll, Dickens; painting by Courbet, Innes; Opera by Wagner; music by Liszt. Matterhorn first scaled. | |||||||||||
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January 1865
Governor George Michael Hahn is elected U. S. Senator and accepts since General Hurlbut refuses to recognize any native civil government. |
February 1865
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March 1865
March 3 George Michael Hahn resigns as governor. While he served as governor, Hahn laid the foundations of black enfranchisement and a black school system and began reconstruction. James Madison Wells becomes governor when Hahn resigns. Wells tries to implement the lenient plan of reconstruction of Andrew Johnson but was opposed by the military government. |
April 1865
After Lincoln is assassinated Congress refuses to seat any representatives or senators from the South. The 1,700 ton side-wheeler Sultana explodes April 27, killing 1600 of 2,300 aboard. |
May 1865
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November 1865
November 6 In a special election James Madison Wells is elected governor, as a Democrat, over Henry Watkins Allen, who is in Mexico, by 22,312 votes to 5,497. As governor, Wells opposes General Banks. He supports Hugh Kennedy as New Orleans Mayor and appoints numerous former confederates to state and local offices. He recommends dismantling public education and using only taxes from blacks to pay for freedmen’s schools. Wells also wants to build new levees, a new capital building and penitentiary, but he is ignored by the legislature which elects U. S. Senators (rejected by Congress) and passes black codes to limit freedmen. |
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