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1865
Reconstruction had started -
1866
Civil Rights Act. It provided blacks with the same legal rights as whites. -
1867
Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts. -
1868
Johnson didn't run for another term, democrats former New York governor Horatio Seymour as their presidential candidate -
1869
More than 150,000 blacks attended more than 3,000 schools. -
1871
Unification of Germany is completed. -
1872
Grant is elected president. -
1873
Economic depression -
1877
Reconstruction ends