1860-1918 By Ccrick13 1861 Civil War begins 1862 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 The Gettysburg Address 1865 Civil War Ends 1865 Abraham Lincoln was Assinated 1865 Reconstruction Amendments Ratified 1866 Military Reconstruction Act passed 1868 U.S. Grant election 1873 Boss Twead Convicted 1877 Compromise of 1877 ends reconstruction 1889 Jane Addams founds Hull House 1896 Plessy v Ferguson 1900 Theodore Roosevelt Elected 1900 Carrie Nation does bar crashing 1901 Booker T. Washington releases Up from slavery 1904 Ida Tarbell attacks Standard Oil Company 1909 Dubois forms NAACP 1914 World War 1 Begins 1915 Birth of a Nation releases 1916 Term Birth Control was coined 1916 First Woman in Congress 1918 World War 1 ends