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Reconstruction ends
Federal troops are withdrawn from the former Confederate states, formally ending the Reconstruction Era. -
Period: to
the progressive era
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Jim Crow era begins
as the State of Tennessee becomes the first to pass laws that segregate railroad passengers by race. Soon other Southern states follow. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibits immigration from China, denies citizenship to Chinese already in America. -
Haymarket Riot in Chicago
Police fire on a group of strikers, killing four and wounding others. Three days later at a rally in Haymarket Square organized by the Knights of Labor, an unknown person throws a bomb into a group of policeman, killing several and causing general mayhem that results in the deaths of more strikers. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
declares illegal "every contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." A vague and weak law, but a first effort at restraining the power of monopolies and trusts. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
the Supreme Court upholds segregation.
