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Freedman's Bureau established
Helped former slaves by getting them through tough times -
Lincoln was assasinated
In Ford's theatre, after the Civil War ender, John Wilkes Booth assasinated Lincoln -
Ku Klux Klan was created
Founded by a group of white people who were against the blacks being free. -
Fourteenth amendment created
Gauaranteed rights of blacks and insured their citizenship -
National Labor Union organized
worked for arbitration of industrial disputes -
Grant becomes president
Grant defeats Seymour -
Transcontinental railroad is completed
The union pacific railroad and the central pacific railroad connected the country -
Fisk and Gould scandal
Fisk and Gould convinced the government not to release gold, and bought gold themselves -
15th amendment
Guaranteed citizens to vote without the discrimination of race -
Tweed scandal
Tweed controls polictics in New York with a corrupt political machine -
Credit Mobiler Scandal
The Union Pacific Railroad Company hired themselves at inflated prices as the Credit Mobilier company -
Panic of 1873
a market panic causes economic depression -
Civil Rights act of 1875
guaranteed that everyone was entitled to the same treatment in public accomodations -
compromise of 1877
Southern democrats aknowledged Hayes as president -
Lightbulb is invented
Thomas Edison creates an efficient carbon filamnt lightbulb -
James Garfield elected as president
Garfield defeats Hancock in the election of 1881 -
Aurthur becomes president
Aurthur is the 3rd president to serve in 1881 after Garfield died -
Garfield dies
Garfield suffers a major heartattack -
Interstate commerce act
prohibited rebates and pools. Required the railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers -
Thomas Reed becomes speaker of house of representatives
when he becomes speaker he gives more authority to the speaker of the house
