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Helped former slaves by getting them through tough times
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In Ford's theatre, after the Civil War ender, John Wilkes Booth assasinated Lincoln
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Founded by a group of white people who were against the blacks being free.
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Gauaranteed rights of blacks and insured their citizenship
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worked for arbitration of industrial disputes
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Grant defeats Seymour
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The union pacific railroad and the central pacific railroad connected the country
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Fisk and Gould convinced the government not to release gold, and bought gold themselves
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Guaranteed citizens to vote without the discrimination of race
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Tweed controls polictics in New York with a corrupt political machine
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The Union Pacific Railroad Company hired themselves at inflated prices as the Credit Mobilier company
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a market panic causes economic depression
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guaranteed that everyone was entitled to the same treatment in public accomodations
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Southern democrats aknowledged Hayes as president
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Thomas Edison creates an efficient carbon filamnt lightbulb
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Garfield defeats Hancock in the election of 1881
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Aurthur is the 3rd president to serve in 1881 after Garfield died
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Garfield suffers a major heartattack
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prohibited rebates and pools. Required the railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers
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when he becomes speaker he gives more authority to the speaker of the house
