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Reconstruction had started
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Civil Rights Act. It provided blacks with the same legal rights as whites.
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Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts.
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Johnson didn't run for another term, democrats former New York governor Horatio Seymour as their presidential candidate
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More than 150,000 blacks attended more than 3,000 schools.
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Unification of Germany is completed.
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Grant is elected president.
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Economic depression
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Reconstruction ends