After this war ended in 1865, slaves were free, and some African-American men worked in the government. But it took almost one hundred years before African-Americans had equal rights in the USA. . Life in the USA also continued to be very bad for the Native Americans. Many died trying to protect their land and their families.
In 1831, the US government had started to move Native Americans to reservations-pieces of land for Native Americans only-so that they could take their land. The long journey to the reservations, often in very cold weather and without food, killed many men, women, and children.