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Reconstruction
Countless carpetbaggers (northerners who moved to the South after the war) and scalawags (white Unionists and Republicans in the South) flocked to the South during Reconstruction and exerted significant influence there. Although in many respects they achieved their goals of modernizing and Republicanizing the South, they eventually were driven out by Democratic state politicians in the mid-1870s. -
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Johnson Presidency
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13th Amendment
abolished slavery -
Establishment of Klan
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14th Amendment
Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts -
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Grant Presidency
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
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Amnesty Act
Voting Rights reinstated to Southern White landowners -
Bankruptsy of Freedmen's Bureau
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Civil Rights Act Passed
The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" -
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Hayes Presidency
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Marked End of Reconstruction
Last of Union Troops withdraw from the South. -
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Garfield Presidency
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Arthur Presidency
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Civil Rights Act Repealed
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Cleveland Presidency
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Harrison Presidency
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Cleveland Presidency (2nd Term)
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Atlanta Exposition
Given by Booker T. Washington -
Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case
Declared 'Seperate but Equal' to be constitutional -
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McKinley Presidency
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Spanish American War
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Progressive Era
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Roosevelt Presidency
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Niagra Movement
Opposed racial segregation -
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Taft Presidency
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Wilson Presidency
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Start of WWI
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U.S. Involvement in WWI
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End of WWI
