Reconstruction (1865-1877) * The Reconstruction era was a time for the North and South to reunite and find peace. The South needed to be rebuilt and the emancipated slaves faced decades of racism.*

​

1863 • Lincoln announces “10 percent” plan

1864 • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill • 1864-1868 – Abraham Lincoln re-elected

1865 • Johnson proclaims presidential Reconstruction • Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen           • Freedmen’s Bureau established • Southern states pass Black Codes

1866 • Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over Johnson’s veto • Congress passes 14th Amendment •                 Johnson-backed candidates lose congressional election • Ex parte Milligan • Ku Klux Klan                    founded 1867 • Military Reconstruction Act • Tenure of Office Act • United States buys Alaska            from Russia 

1868 • Johnson impeached and acquitted • Johnson pardons Confederate leaders • 1868-1872 –              Ulysses S. Grant elected

1870 • Congress passes 15th Amendment

1870-71 • Force Acts 1872 • Freedmen’s Bureau ended • 1872-1876 – Ulysses S. Grant reelected 1876 • 1876-1880 – Rutherford B. Hayes elected

1877 • Compromise of 1877 • Military Reconstruction ends Events without dates: • Amnesty Act •               Posse Comitatus Act 

​

Gilded Age and Populists (1869-1900) * This post-Civil War era was a time when everything looked coated in chocolate and gold, but underneath it was just a piece of rotten banana. It was also the beginning of more radical political groups.*

​

1865 • Chicago opens its Union stockyards

1868 • 1868-1872 – Ulysses S. Grant elected

1869 • First Transcontinental Railroad is completed.

1869 • Riots against the Chinese take place in San Francisco.

1870 • Standard Oil Company of Ohio is incorporated in Cleveland

1871 • William "Boss" Tweed is exposed • Race riots erupt in Los Angeles against the Chinese

1872 • Credit Mobilier scandal • 1872-1874 – Buffalo are hunted to near extinction • 1872-1876 –           Ulysses S. Grant reelected

1873 • Timber Culture Act • Panic of 1873 • Indian Wars with the Modoc Indians of Oregon

1874 • Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire

1875 • Tariff Act of 1875 • Whiskey Ring Scandal is exposed

1876 • National League baseball plays its first official game • May -- The Centennial Exposition is                 opened • Battle of Little Bighorn • 1876-1880 – Rutherford B. Hayes elected

1877 • Compromise of 1877 • Desert Land Act • Great railroad Strike

1878 • Timber and Stone Act • Thomas Edison establishes Edison Electric Light Co. • Terence Powderly            takes over as the leader of the Knights of Labor.

1879 • Feeling against "cheap Chinese labor" runs high in California

1880 • US population reaches 50,100,000 • Andrew Carnegie has a monopoly of the steel industry             • 1880-1884 – James A. Garfield elected

1881 • James Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau. • Chester A. Arthur becomes president. •             Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States

1882 • John D. Rockefeller organizes the Standard Oil Trust • Chinese Exclusion Act

1883 • Brooklyn Bridge is completed

1884 • 1884-1888 – Grover Cleveland elected

1886 • Riots against the Chinese in Seattle, Washington • Haymarket Square Riot • Santa Clara                    County v. Southern Pacific Railroad • American Federation of Labor is organized by Samuel                  Gompers.

1887 • Dawes Severalty Act

1888 • Congress establishes a Department of Labor • 1888-1892 – Benjamin Harrison elected

1889 • North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are all admitted to statehood. •                    Oklahoma is opened to white settlers

1890 • Sherman Anti-trust Act • Wyoming enters the Union as the first state to have women’s suffrage.             • McKinley Tariff Act

1892 • Homestead Steel Strike • Close to 2 million acres of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana              are opened to white settlers. • 1892-1896 – Grover Cleveland elected

1893 • Panic of 1893 • Eugene V. Debs founds the militant American Railway Union.

1894 • Coxey’s Army • The Pullman Strike

1895 • U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co.

1896 • Plessy v. Ferguson • Dingley Tariff • 1896-1900 – William McKinley elected 

​

Empire and World Stage (1890-1900) * This era was a time of growing military power and influence.*

​

1890 • National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) is founded • July 2 --Sherman                    Antitrust Act Sherman silver purchase act • McKinley tariff • December 29 -- Last major battle of             the Indian Wars occurs at Wounded Knee in South Dakota • Census Bureau announces that                 the West has been settled and the frontier is closed • Idaho and Wyoming become states

1891 • Basketball invented • The Baltimore crisis occurs between Chile and the US • The Homestead            strike

1892 • January 1 -- Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S. • 1892-1896 – Grover             Cleveland elected

1893 • Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed • Panic of 1893 1894 • Coxy’s army • Pullman strike •           Wilson Gorman Tariff

1895 • Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co.

1896 • Plessy v. Ferguson • William Jennings Bryan delivers his cross of gold speech • Gold                         discovered in the Yukon • Utah becomes a state • 1896-1900 – William McKinley elected

1898 • Spanish-American War • April 25 -- U.S. to declares war on Spain • Delome letter • Treaty of           Paris • July 7 -- U.S. annexes Hawaii by an act of Congress