Lincoln announces ¨10 percent¨ Reconstruction plan
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill.
Lincoln assassinated. Johnson issues Recontruction prclamation. Congress refuse to seat Southern congressmen. Freedmen´s Bureau established. Southern statesbpass Black Codes
Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson´s veto. Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment. Johnson-backed canidates lose congressional election. Ex parre NMilligan case. Ku Klux Klan founded
Reconstruction Act. Tenure of Office Act. United States purchases Alaska from Russia.
Johnson impeached and acquitted. Johnson pardons Confederate leaders.
Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
Fisk and Gould corner gold market
Fifteenth Amndment ratified
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Force Act
Tweed scandal in New York
Freedmen´s Bureau ended
Créit Mobilier scandal exposed. Liberal Republicans break with Grant. Grant defeats Greeley for Presidency
Panic of 1873
Whiskey Ring scandal. Civil Rights Act of 1875. Resumption Act.
Hayes- Tilden election standof and crisis
Reconstruction ends
Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction ends. Railroad strikes paralyze nation.
Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency
Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Cases. Pendleton Act sets up civil service commission
Homestead steel strike. Coeur d´Alene (Idaho) silver miners´ strike. People´s party candidate James B. Weaver wins twenty-two electoral votes. Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency.
Deprssion of 1893 begins. Republicans regain House of Representatives
J.P. Morgan´s banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government
Plessy v. Feguson legitimizes ¨separate but equal¨ doctrine