Lincoln announce "10 percent " Reconstruction plan
Lincoln vetoes Wade- Davis Bill
Lincoln assassinated. Johnson issue Reconstrusction proclaimation. Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen. Freedmen's Bureau established. Southern states pas Black Codes
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
Reconstruction Act. Tenue of Office Act United States purchases Alaska Russia.
Johnson impeached and acquitted. Johnson pardons Confederate leaders.
Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
Fisk and Gould corner gold market
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
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Force Act
Tweed scandal in New York
Freedmen's Bureau ended
Credit Modilier 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- ilden election standoff and crisis
Reconstruction ends
Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction ends Railroad strikes paralyze nation
Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency
Garfield assassinated; Aethur assumes presidency
Chinese Exclusion Act
Civil Rights Cases. Prndletoon Act sets up Civil Service Commission
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
Depression of 1893 begins. Republicans regain House of Representatives
J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government
Plessy v. Ferguson legitimizes "separate but equal" doctrine