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Period: to
Civil War( Beginning to End)
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Lincoln's Assassination
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13th Amendment
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Period: to
Reconstruction
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14th Amendment
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Transcontinental Railroad completed
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15th Amendment
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Hiram R. Revels becomes first black senator
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The Panic of 73' (starts depression)
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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Compromise makes Hayes president, ends reconstruction
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Tuskegee Institute founded
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Tennessee passes law segregating railroad cars (other states soon follow)
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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The Haymarket affair/massacre
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American Federation of Labor created
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Dawes Act
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The Chicago World's Fair (aka Columbian Exposition)
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Lynchings peak in United States (1890s)
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The Panic of 93 (leads to depression)
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McKinley election
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Plessy v. Ferguson, rules "separate but equal" and Jim Crow segregation laws are legal
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US Annexation of the Philippines
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McKinley assassination