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Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army.
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Pardon to all but the highest ranking
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Cheyenne raids on wagon trains and settlements.Cheyenne agree to move to reservation.
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Established by Congress as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid and protect former slaves after the end of the war.
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Abolished slavery
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President Johnson vetos the civil rights act
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President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill and Congress failed to override that veto on the following day.
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Restart Reconstruction in the 10 Southern states
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The House impeached him on February 24
before even drawing up the charges by a
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Provide a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed people.
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The CPR crew set a record of laying 10 miles in twelve hours.
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The UPR arrived at Promontory Point, Utah, and the last track was laid to connect the entire country.
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Guaranteed federal vote
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President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate,
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Horace Greeley dies
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Gold found in the Sioux Black Hills. Custer and all his men were killed.
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Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed.
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The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater.
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Federal Government establishes
Bureau of Immigration & selects Ellis Island
as site of new immigration station for port of
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Jacob Riis writes a book called "How the Other Half Lives" depicting how the poor people in society are living.
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Ellis Island opens its door for the first time.
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She began a newspaper attacking lynching and racism.
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Conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas.
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Congress declares war on Spain
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140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day and the right to unionize.
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Established congresses right to impose an Federal income tax.
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Women get to vote
