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Jim Crow enters American cultural language
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Abraham Lincoln Announces Plans for reconstruction
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Wade-Davis Bill Receives Pocket Veto
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Lincoln Re-Elected President
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Black Codes created in Mississippi
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Formation of Freedmans Burearu
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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President Andrew Johnson Announces Plans for Reconstruction
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Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
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Ku Klux Klan created
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Cicil Rights Act (1866) Enacted
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Reconstruction Acts Enacted
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President Andrew Johnson Impeached
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Ratification of the fourteenth Amendment
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Ulysses S. Grant elected President
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Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
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Hiram Revels elected to Senate
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Ku Klux Klan Act Enacted
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Freedman's Bureau Abolished
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Civil Rights Act (1875) passed
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Last National Troops Leave South Carolina
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Rutherford B. Hayes elected President
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Civil Rights Act Overturned (1883)
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Florida Requires Segregation in Places of Public Accommodation
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Case of Plessey v. Ferguson