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Reconstruction
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction issued -
Congress
Congress passes Wade-Davis Bill -
Freedmen
Freedmen's Bureau founed and President Lincoln assassinated -
Civil war
Civil war ends -
Ku Klux Klan
Created in Tennesse -
Black code
mississippi enacts black code -
Transatlantic Cable
Completion of the transatlantic cable -
New orleans
New orleans race roit massacre -
Military Reconstruction Act
Congress passes the Military Reconstruction Act -
Third Reconstruction Act
Third Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto. -
First Reconstruction Act
First Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto. -
Second Reconstruction Act
Second Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto. -
Impeachment and Acquits
House impeaches President Johnson in February -
Japanese Modernization
Meiji Restoration begins Japanese modernizaion -
Suez Canal
First ship pass through Suez Canal. -
Grant
Grant becomes president -
Hiram Revels
Hiram Revels elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator. -
15th Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment ratififed -
Joseph H. Rainey
Joseph H. Rainey, first black member sworn in as member of U. S. House of Representatives. -
Ku Klux Klan Act)
Act to Enforce Fourteenth Amendment (Ku Klux Klan Act). -
Germany
Unification of Germany completed; German Empire proclaimed -
Freedman
Freedman's Bureau abolished -
Civil rights
Civil rights act enacted by congress
