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Lincoln assassinated
Johnson issues Reconstruction proclamation
Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen
Freedmen's Bureau established
Southern states pas Black Codes -
Congress pass Civil Right Bill over Johnson's veto
Congress passes 14th Amendment
Johnson backed candidates lose congressional election
Ex parte Milligan case
Ku Klux Klan founded (KKK) -
Reconstruction Act
Tenure of Office Act
United States purchases Alaska from Russia -
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Johnson impeached and acquitted
Johnson pardons Confederate leaders -
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Credit Mobilier scandal exposed
Liberal Republicans break with Grant
Grant defeats Greeley for presidency -
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Whiskey Ring scandal
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Resumption Act -
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Compromise of 1877
Reconstuction ends
Railroad strikes paralyze nation -
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Civil Rights Cases
Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commission -
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"Billion-Dollar" Congress
McKinley Tariff Act
Sherman Sliver Purchase Act (repealed 1893) -
Homestead steel strikes
Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) silver miners' strike
People's party candidate James B. Weaver wins 22 electoral votes
Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency -
Depression of 1893 begins
Republicans regian House of Representatives -
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