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When reconstruction started
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Civil Rights Act- provided African Americans with the same legal rights as whites/ Ku Klux Klan was created
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Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts
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Johnson didn't run for another term; democrats former New York governor Horatio Seymour as their presidential candidate
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Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment/ Grant became president
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The Fifteenth Amendment went into effect as one of the last Reconstruction laws passed at the federal level
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The General Amnesty Act allowed former Confederate to serve in public office/ Grant was re-elected
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Panic of 1873 happened/ severe economic downturn began when Jay Cooke declared bankrupty
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The Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places
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unemployment had risen to 14 percent, with an estimated 2 million people out of work
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The Compromise of 1877, the Democrats agreed to accept Hayes victory. In return, they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South/ President Hayes removed the last of the federal troops from the South
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the U.S Supreme Court ruled that Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional
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the U.S Supreme Court returned to the issue of segregation
