1863 Lincoln announces "10 percent" Reconstruction plan
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Lincoln assassinatedJohnson issues Reconstruction proclamationCongress refuses to seat Southern congressmenFreedmen's Bureau establishedSouthern states pass Black Codes
Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson's vetoCongress passes Fourteenth AmendmentJohnson-backed candidates lose congressional electionEx parte Milligan caseKu Klux Klan founded
Reconstruction ActTenure of Office ActUnited States purchase Alaska from Russia
Johnson impeached and acquittedJohnson pardons Confederate leaders
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
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Force Acts
Freedmen's Bureau ended
Reconstruction ends
National Municipal League formed to work for reform in cities
Galveston, Texas, is first city to try commission form of government
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Roosevelt sues Northern Securities Company for violation of Antitrust Act
Roosevelt elected president
Taft elected president
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act divides Republican party
Mann-Elkins Act passed to regulate railroads
Progressive party formed
Underwood Tariff Act lowers rates
Clayton Act strengthens antitrust legislation
Wilson wins reelection
Supreme Court strikes down federal law limiting child labor in Hammer v. Dagenhart
Nineteenth Amendment gives women the right to vote