AMH 2 ABAC Spring 2014

By ABAC_History

  • Civil War Starts

    Starts in April 1861

  • Homestead Act

  • Pacific Railroad Act

  • Emancipation Proclamation GOES INTO EFFECT

  • Wade-Davis Bill

    A Congresstional plan for a Radical Reconstruction, part of their overall plan.

  • 13th Amendment

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    Reconstruction Era

  • Period: to

    Freedmens Bureu

  • Lee surrenders to Grant, effectively ending Civil War

  • Abraham Lincoln Shot

    Andrew Johnson became presdent

  • 14th Amendment

    citizenship

  • The First Grange

    Oliver Kelly starts the first Grange in Minnesota

  • 15th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Height of Farmers Aliance Popularity

    1880s to 1890s. The Farmer's Aliance Movement really gained momentum in the 1870s, fand flourished in the 1880s and into the mid 1890s.
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    Height of Granges' Popularity

    The height of the Granges' popularity is from the mid 1870s to the mid 1880s

  • Wounded Knee I

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Alottment Act

    Native Americans given plots of lands

  • West is Closed

    Federal government publishes 1890 census and declares that there is no more unexplored land in the American West

  • Memphis Cotton picking Strike

  • Peoples Party Starts

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    Rise and fall for Populist Party (People's Party)

    The People's Party has a firm date for starting (1892) but where it ends is a bit less certain. It is definately over by 1900, but ends earlier in some places.

  • Panic of 1893

  • Committee of Safety Overthrows Queen Liluokalani

  • President Will McKinley Innaugurated

  • Hawaii Annexed

  • Plessy Vs. Ferguson

    Supreme Court hands down their ruling on Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Spanish American War

  • Wilmington race Riots

  • Pure Food and Drug Act