US so far By DnyKim01 Period: 1861 to 1865 Civil War( Beginning to End) 1865 Lincoln's Assassination 1865 13th Amendment Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction 1868 14th Amendment 1869 Transcontinental Railroad completed 1870 15th Amendment 1870 Hiram R. Revels becomes first black senator 1873 The Panic of 73' (starts depression) 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1877 Compromise makes Hayes president, ends reconstruction 1881 Tuskegee Institute founded 1881 Tennessee passes law segregating railroad cars (other states soon follow) 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1886 The Haymarket affair/massacre 1886 American Federation of Labor created 1887 Dawes Act 1892 The Chicago World's Fair (aka Columbian Exposition) 1892 Lynchings peak in United States (1890s) 1893 The Panic of 93 (leads to depression) 1896 McKinley election 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, rules "separate but equal" and Jim Crow segregation laws are legal 1898 US Annexation of the Philippines 1901 McKinley assassination