Wednesday, May 26, 2010

HOW THE CIVIL WAR ENDED!!!
The Civil War was officially over on April 19th, 1865. The Confederate army surrendered, and 620,000 Americans died in the war. Thousands were injured and the southern landscape was devistating. Ulysses S. Grant had ruined the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia. There was almost no possible way the south could have escaped the situation.
When the south surrendered, Lieutenant U.S Grant wrote the terms for the surrender of the Confederate States Army in the form of a letter from himself to General Lee. The terms of the letter were generous and would allow the Confederates to go home feeling like they had been treated with respect.
The Civil War had a HUGE impact on slavery. And after the war was over, the Constitution changed the law of slavery to allow no slavery at all.
NO MORE SLAVERY!!!

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