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Wade-Davis Bill passed
Required a majority of white adult males to take allegiance oath. -
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Black Codes
Made African Americans enter into a life simmilar to slavery by making them accept apprenticeships and in some states could be either whipped or beaten. -
Thirteenth Amendment Passed
Abolished slavery -
Lincoln is Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth sneeks into Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater and shoots him. -
Ku Klux Klan formed
Angry white southerners drove out the "carpetbaggers" and intimidate African American voters. -
Civil Rights act of 1866 passed
Granted all people born in the U.S. citizenship. -
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Grant Administration
President Grant's term in office was a disaster because he had no political experience. -
Hiram R. Revels
Hiram was the first African American senator. He served only one year. -
Ku Klux Klan act
Congress outlawed all activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Officials arrested more than 3,000 Klan members. -
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Panic of 1873
An economic crisis was ignited when Jay Cooke and Comapany declared bankruptcy. -
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Whiskey Ring Scandal
Government Officials and distillers in St. Louis are found to have cheated the government out of millions of dollers by filing false tax reports. -
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Blanch Kelso Bruce's 6-year term
Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi becomes the first full term African-American senator. -
President Hayes was elected
President Rutheford Hayes is elected. He drove out the carpet baggers from the South and the economy boomed. -
Reconstruction ends
President Hayes ends reconstruction. The Southern economy boomed when Hayes pulled the troops out. -
Henry O. Flipper
Henry O. Flipper graduates from West Point. He is the first African American to graduate from a millitary acadamy.
