US History from the Civil War By jbmanley Period: 1861 to 1865 Civil War 1862 Homestead Act 1865 13th Amendment passed Period: 1865 to 1920 Reconstruction through the Progressive Era Period: 1865 to 1869 Andrew Johnson's Presidency 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 1869 Transcontinental Railroad completed 1870 Enforcement Acts 1870 and 1871 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1877 Compromise of 1877 1879 Progress and Poverty published 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1887 Dawes Act 1892 People's Party founded 1892 Homestead Strike 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 1898 Spanish-American War 1901 Platt Amendment Period: 1901 to 1909 Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist 1920 19th Amendment