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