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Ulysses S. Grant elected president
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"Jim Crow" enters the American cultural language
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Black codes created in Mississippi
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Abraham Lincoln announces plans for reconstruction
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Civil war act passed
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Wade Davis bill receives pocket veto
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Lincol re-elected president
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ratification of the 13th ammendment
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formation of freedman's bureau
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last national troops leave South Carolina
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Ku Klux Klan created
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Sivil Rights Act enacted
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President Andrew Johnson announced plans for reconstruction
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Reconstruction acts enacted
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President Andrew Johnson Impeached
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Ratification of the 14th ammendment
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ratification of the 15th ammendment
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Hirem Revels elected to Senate
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Ku Klux Klan act enacted
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Freedmen's bureau abolished
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Rutherford B hayes elected president
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Civil War Act overturned
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Florida requires segregation in places of public accommodation
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case of Plessey vs Fergusun