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Civil War Ends
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Congress creates Freedman's Bureau
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All southern states except Texas created new governments
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Reconstruction
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Lincoln proposes 13th amendment
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Lincoln's Assassination
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13th Amendment ratified
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Johnson pardons more than 7,000 people
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Congress debates rules for restoring Union
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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14th Amendment
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Ku Klux Klan created
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Dispute betweem police and black Union soldiers, Turned into 3 day wave of violence against blacks
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Congress passes 1st of several Reconstruction Acts. Divided South into 5 districts
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grant became president
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15th Amendment proposed; put into action in 1870
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Hiram Revels becomes 1st black senator
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Congress passes laws making it illegal to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection under law
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General Amnesty Act of 1872: former Confederates who didn't hold high positions can run for public office
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Grant re-elected
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Panic of 1873; severe economic down turn
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Democrats gained control of House of Representatives
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Civil Rights Act of 1875; African Americans equal rights in public places
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Unemployment rises to 14 percent
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Republicans choose Rutherford B Hayes as presidential candidate
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Compromise of 1877; democrats accept Hayes's victory and all federal troops are removed from the South
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Segregation and Jim Crow laws in Southern states
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Supreme Court rules Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional and that 14th Amendment only applies to state governments
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Plessy vs Ferguson
