jan 8, 1865 - End of the war

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The Civil War cost 618, 000 lives = still largest number of American fatalities in any war in the history of the United States.

War ended but beginning og Reconstruction and Segregation, not only in the South (creation of the Ku Klux Klan in December 1865).

New challenges for the reunited Union -> questions of race, citizenship, westward expansion (Indian Wars), etc.

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