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| 1864 | Wade-Davis Bill passed |
| 1865 | Freedmen's Bureau established Johnson permits passage of Black Codes 13th Amendment ratified, outlawing slavery |
| 1866 | Congress passes Civil Rights Act 14th Amendment proposed Ex parte Milligan Ku Klux Klan formed in South |
| 1867 | Tenure of Office Act Alaska purchased Southern states establish Reconstruction governments Grange founded |
| 1868 | Johnson impeached by House, acquitted by Senate 14th Amendment ratified Grant elected president |
| 1869 | 15th Amendment proposed Transcontinental railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah Knights of Labor formed |
| 1870 | Last Southern states readmitted to Congress |
| 1873 | Slaughterhouse cases Comstock lode discovered Depression (through 1878) Panic of 1873 |
| 1874 | Gold rush begins in Black Hills of South Dakota Barbed wire fence invented |
| 1875 | Several Grant assistants indicted for corruption in Whiskey ring scandal |
| 1876 | U.S. v. Cruikshank, U.S. v. Reese, Tilden defeats Hayes in popular vote in presidential election Custer defeated at Little Big Horn |
| 1877 | Compromise of 1877: Hayes awarded presidency, troops removed from Southern states Widespread rail strikes Knights of Labor Munn v. Illinois San Francisco anti-Chinese riots |
| 1878 | Timber and Stone Act Bland-Allison Act |
| 1881 | Pres. Garfield assassinated Helen Hunt Jackson, "A Century of Dishonor" |
| 1882 | Standard Oil Trust formed Chinese Exclusion Act |
| 1883 | Pendleton Civil Service Act |
| 1884 | Depression (through 1885) |
| 1885-86 | Killing winters in Plains |
| 1886 | Haymarket Riot American Federation of Labor formed Wabash v. Illinois |
| 1887 | Dawes Severalty Act, Interstate Commerce Act |
| 1888 | Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward" |
| 1890 | Wounded Knee Sherman Antitrust Act Sherman Silver Purchase Act U.S. Census declares end of the frontier McKinley Tariff |
| 1891 | Populist Party founded |
| 1892 | Omaha Populist Convention Homestead Steel Strike |
| 1893 | Great Northern Railroad completed Depression (through 1897) Frederick Jackson Turner proposes frontier thesis Panic of 1893 |
| 1894 | Pullman strike Coxey's Army |
| 1895 | Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise speech Frederick Taylor explains scientific management |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson upholds separate but equal McKinley defeats Bryan for president as free silver forces are crushed |
| 1897 | Dingley Tariff Economic depression ends |
| 1898 |
USS Maine sinks in Havana Harbor Dewey captures Philippines Hawaii annexed to U.S. Anti-Imperialist League established Philippine insurrection under Aguinaldo begins (until 1902) |
| 1899 | First Open Door note |
| 1900 | Boxer Rebellion in China |
Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).
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