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Attack on Fort Sumter
Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army. -
Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction
Pardon to all but the highest ranking
military and civilian Confederate officers. -
Sand Creek Massacre
Cheyenne raids on wagon trains and settlements.Cheyenne agree to move to reservation. -
Freedman's Bureau
Established by Congress as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid and protect former slaves after the end of the war. -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery -
Veto of Civil Rights Act
President Johnson vetos the civil rights act -
Veto of Freedman's Bureau Bill
President Andrew Johnson vetoed the bill and Congress failed to override that veto on the following day. -
Reconstruction Acts
Restart Reconstruction in the 10 Southern states
that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment. Divide the 10 “unreconstructed states” into 5 military districts. -
President Johnsons Impeachment
The House impeached him on February 24
before even drawing up the charges by a
vote of 126-47 -
14th Amendment
Provide a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed people. -
10 Miles of Track Transcontinental RR
The CPR crew set a record of laying 10 miles in twelve hours. -
Transcontinental RR Finishes
The UPR arrived at Promontory Point, Utah, and the last track was laid to connect the entire country. -
15th Amendment
Guaranteed federal vote -
The Election of 1872
President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, -
Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley dies -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Gold found in the Sioux Black Hills. Custer and all his men were killed. -
End of Reconstruction
Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed. -
Birth of Vaudeville
The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater. -
Bureau of Immigration & Ellis Island
Federal Government establishes
Bureau of Immigration & selects Ellis Island
as site of new immigration station for port of
New York -
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis writes a book called "How the Other Half Lives" depicting how the poor people in society are living. -
Opening of Ellis Island
Ellis Island opens its door for the first time. -
Ida B. Wells crusades against lynching
She began a newspaper attacking lynching and racism. -
Beginning of the Spanish American War
Conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas. -
Congress Declares War
Congress declares war on Spain -
Coal Strike
140,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for increased wages, a 9-hour work day and the right to unionize. -
16th Amendment
Established congresses right to impose an Federal income tax. -
19th Amendment
Women get to vote
