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Black Codes Enacted
Series of laws passed by southern states, were modeled after slaved codes that had been in effect before the Civil War. Granted African Americans some right but still did not give them many rights to own property. -
14th Amendment Passed
Guaranteed repayment of the national war debt and prohibited repayment of the Confederate debt. It also disqualifed prominent Confederates from holding office and allowed only Congress by a two-thirds vote could remove this penalty. It also defined what an American Citizen was -- defined as anyone born in the United States of naturalized. -
Johnson Impeached & Acquitted
When Johnson tried to dismiss Secretary of War, this angered the House of Representatives who then approved articles of impeachment. The Senate ended up voting 36 to 19, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed therefore not impeaching Johnson and acquitting him instead. -
15th Amendment Passed
Prohibits the federal and state governement from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" Originally passed in 1869 had to be ratified in 1870. -
Alexander Bell develops phone
Alexander Graham Bell's introduction of the telephone was a great improvemtn to the telegraph. Telephones modernized offices and helped to ease business transactions. Made communication widely available to almost all. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Colonel George Armstrong Custer broke the Treaty of Laramie by leading a charge into the Blackhills. He would eventually be killed by Crazy Horse as well as 267 other soldiers. -
Pillman Strike of 1894
Nationwide railroad strike that put railroad workers that were being supported by the American Railway Union to support them by boycotting all trails that used Pullman cars. Railroad owners enlisted President Grover to end the strike - Government did in fact get involved and had violent encounters with protestors. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Homer Adolph Plessy attempted to test a Lousiana law requiring segregated railroad facilities by sitting in an all-white section of a local train, this resulted in his arrest. Eventually the case of Plessy Vs. Ferguson would make its way to the Supreme Court. in 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not constitute discrimination as long as accommodations for both races were "separate but equal"
