From theJune 2011 AARP Bulletin (Yea, I'm That Old.) by Betsy Towner.
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT
No other conflict has so profoundly changed our society:
1. 13th Amendment: slavery banned
2. 14th Amendment: citizenship for all born in the US
3. 15th Amendment: Voting rights for all male citizens regardless of race
4. Women's rights gains momentum
5. 1862 Homestead Act passed
6.. Censorship of battlefield photos
7. Reconstruction laws passed
8. Ku Klux Klan organized
9. Jim Crow laws passed
10. Federal law trumps states' rights
Forty More to Come. gets You to Thinking. --Old B-Runner
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