US History 1865-present

Civil War

Period: Apr 1, 1861 to Apr 1, 1865

Emancipation Proclaimation

Jan 1, 1863

Pacific Railroad Act

Jan 15, 1864

Freedmen's Bureau

Period: Jan 1, 1865 to Jan 1, 1870

KKK created

Jan 13, 1865

Black Codes

Period: Jan 13, 1865 to Jan 13, 1866

Black Codes

Period: Jan 14, 1865 to Jan 14, 1866

But reinstituted in several parts of the south later-- 1870s

Presidentidal Reconstruction

Period: Apr 1, 1865 to Dec 31, 1865

Civil Rights Act

Jan 13, 1866

Congressional Reconstruction

Period: Jan 14, 1866 to Jan 14, 1876

Redeemer Movement

Period: Jan 13, 1868 to Jan 13, 1885

Movement, push/pull throughout late 1860s-1880s; reinstitution of black codees

Readjuster movement

Period: Jan 13, 1868 to Jan 13, 1885

Counter movement to Redeemers 1868-1880s/1890s

Transcontinential Railroad

Jan 15, 1869

Knights of Labor

Period: Jan 20, 1869 to Jan 20, 1886

Gilded Age

Period: Jan 15, 1870 to Jan 15, 1890

New South

Period: Jan 20, 1870 to Jan 20, 1890

Credit Mobilier

Jan 15, 1872

Panic of 1873

Period: Jan 15, 1873 to Jan 15, 1879

Compromise 1877

Jan 13, 1877

Ends Reconstruction

First national strike

Jan 20, 1877

Standardized Time

Jan 15, 1883

Haymarket Riot

Jan 20, 1886

American Federation of Labor

Period: Jan 20, 1886 to Jan 20, 2015