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President Lincoln was assassinated by the gunshot of John W. Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.Lincoln is the first of 4 presidents assassinated in American history as of modern time.
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The Klu Klux Klan was founded. This group was against equality and freedom of Blacks. Their ideology and belief of white supremacy lingers in our society to this day
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Grant is elected president in 1868
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A panic occurred in 1873 due to bankruptcy and crash which negatively affected the economy.
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Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., and died in Elberon, New Jersey.
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five cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States declared that amendments 13 and 14 did not empower Congress to prohibit racial discrimination by individuals.