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Lincoln announce "10 percent " Reconstruction plan
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Lincoln vetoes Wade- Davis Bill
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Lincoln assassinated. Johnson issue Reconstrusction proclaimation. Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen. Freedmen's Bureau established. Southern states pas Black Codes
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Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson's veto. Congress passes Fourtheenth Amendment . Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election. Ex parte Milligan case. Ku Klux Klan founded
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Reconstruction Act. Tenue of Office Act United States purchases Alaska Russia.
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Johnson impeached and acquitted. Johnson pardons Confederate leaders.
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Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
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Fisk and Gould corner gold market
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Fifteenth Amendment ratified
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Force Act
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Tweed scandal in New York
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Freedmen's Bureau ended
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Credit Modilier scandal exposed. Liberal Republicans break with Grant. Grant defeats Greeley for presidency.
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Panic of 1873
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Whiskey Ring scandal. Civil Rights Act of 1875. Resumption Act
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Hayes- ilden election standoff and crisis
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Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction ends Railroad strikes paralyze nation
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Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency
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Garfield assassinated; Aethur assumes presidency
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Civil Rights Cases. Prndletoon Act sets up Civil Service Commission
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Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency
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Harriosn defeats Ceveland dor presidency
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" Billion-Dollar" Congress. McKinley Tariff Act. Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893)
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Homestead steel strike. Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) silver miners' strike. People's party candidate James B. Weaver wins rwenty- two electoral votes. Cleveland defeats Harrison and Waver to reagian presidency
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Depression of 1893 begins. Republicans regain House of Representatives
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J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government
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Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes "separate but equal" doctrine