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President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Confederate surrender, left Texans uncertain about their future.
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Only days after the Civil War President Lincoln was assassinated.
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Granger, by the athurotity of Lincoln, declared all slaves to be free.
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Congress didn't accept the Texas Constitution of 1866.
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Texas held an election for their new governor.
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The Reconstruction of 1867 put Texas and other Southern states under military rule.
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The Ku Klux Klan became and attacked African Americans.
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The Constitution of 1869 was finally adopted by the Texas voters.
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There were thousands of students in about 100 schools in Texas.
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Texas was readmitted into the Union.
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Democrats who were against Davis gained control of the legislature and eliminated the Obnoxious Act.
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Previous Governor Davis ran for reelection.
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Black "Buffalo Soliders" are first posted to Texas.
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Inauguration of Democrat Richard Coke marks the end of Reconstruction in Texas.
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Inaguration of Democrat Richard Coke marks the end of Reconstruction in Texas.
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The El Paso Salt War is the cullmination of a long dispute caused by Anglos' attempts to take over salt-minnimg rights at the foot of the Guadalupe Peak.
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Texas and Pacific Railway reaches Sierra Blanca in West Texas about 90 miles esast of El Paso.
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The University of Texas classes begin.
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Legislature passed a law making fence cutting a felony.
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Hurricane destroys every house in the port of Indianola.
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Present State capital is dedicated.
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Texas experiences its coldest winter on record.
