Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 15 John F. Peto Questions: |
The Years After the Civil War
In 1865 the Civil War ended, and John Wilkes Booth, an
actor and Confederate supporter, assassinated President
Abraham Lincoln. Pessimism pervaded America during the
turbulent Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The
war cast doubt on Americans' hopes of promise and progress.
The divisiveness of the war, added to the increasing
problems caused by industrialization and urbanization, the
assassinations of three presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, and
McKinley), and an economic depression.
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