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Lincoln announces ¨10 percent¨ Reconstruction plan
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill.
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Lincoln assassinated. Johnson issues Recontruction prclamation. Congress refuse to seat Southern congressmen. Freedmen´s Bureau established. Southern statesbpass Black Codes
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Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson´s veto. Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment. Johnson-backed canidates lose congressional election. Ex parre NMilligan case. Ku Klux Klan founded
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Reconstruction Act. Tenure of Office Act. United States purchases Alaska from Russia.
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Johnson impeached and acquitted. Johnson pardons Confederate leaders.
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Grant defeats Seymour for presidency
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Fisk and Gould corner gold market
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Fifteenth Amndment ratified
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Force Act
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Tweed scandal in New York
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Freedmen´s Bureau ended
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Créit Mobilier scandal exposed. Liberal Republicans break with Grant. Grant defeats Greeley for Presidency
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Panic of 1873
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Whiskey Ring scandal. Civil Rights Act of 1875. Resumption Act.
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Hayes- Tilden election standof and crisis
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Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction ends. Railroad strikes paralyze nation.
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Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency
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Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Civil Rights Cases. Pendleton Act sets up civil service commission
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Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency
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Harrision defeats Cleveland for presidency
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¨Billion- Dollar¨ Congress. McKinley Tariff Act. Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893)
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Homestead steel strike. Coeur d´Alene (Idaho) silver miners´ strike. People´s party candidate James B. Weaver wins twenty-two electoral votes. Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency.
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Deprssion of 1893 begins. Republicans regain House of Representatives
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J.P. Morgan´s banking syndicate loans $65 million in gold to federal government
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Plessy v. Feguson legitimizes ¨separate but equal¨ doctrine