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Civil War Starts
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Homestead Act
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Pacific Railroad Act
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Emancipation Proclamation GOES INTO EFFECT
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Wade-Davis Bill
A Congresstional plan for a Radical Reconstruction, part of their overall plan. -
13th Amendment
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Reconstruction Era
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Freedmens Bureu
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Lee surrenders to Grant, effectively ending Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln Shot
Andrew Johnson became presdent -
14th Amendment
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The First Grange
Oliver Kelly starts the first Grange in Minnesota -
15th Amendment
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Height of Farmers Aliance Popularity
1880s to 1890s. The Farmer's Aliance Movement really gained momentum in the 1870s, fand flourished in the 1880s and into the mid 1890s. -
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Height of Granges' Popularity
The height of the Granges' popularity is from the mid 1870s to the mid 1880s -
Wounded Knee I
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Alottment Act
Native Americans given plots of lands -
West is Closed
Federal government publishes 1890 census and declares that there is no more unexplored land in the American West -
Memphis Cotton picking Strike
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Peoples Party Starts
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Rise and fall for Populist Party (People's Party)
The People's Party has a firm date for starting (1892) but where it ends is a bit less certain. It is definately over by 1900, but ends earlier in some places. -
Panic of 1893
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Committee of Safety Overthrows Queen Liluokalani
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President Will McKinley Innaugurated
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Hawaii Annexed
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court hands down their ruling on Plessy vs. Ferguson -
Spanish American War
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Wilmington race Riots
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Pure Food and Drug Act