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1866 | Ex Parte Milligan (the president's power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in a time of war does not extend to creating another court system run by the military) |
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1866 | Sioux Wars on the Great Plains |
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1866 | Southern Homestead Act |
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1866 | Freedmen's Bureau renewed and Civil Rights Act passed over Johnson's veto GO ! |
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1866 | Tennessee readmitted to Union |
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1867 | Purchase of Alaska Treaty GO ! |
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1867 | Nebraska is the 37th state admitted to the Union |
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1867 | Medicine Lodge Treaty |
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1867 | The U.S. annexes the Midway Islands |
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1867 | National Grange founded |
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1867 | Reconstruction act passed over Johnson's veto GO ! |
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1868 | Burlingame Treaty |
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1868 | U.S. and China sign Burlingame - Seward Treaty (recognizing rights of their citizens to emigrate) |
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1868 | U.S. President Johnson impeached for violating Tenure-of-Office Act but acquitted by Senate GO ! |
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1868 | Fort Laramie treaty GO ! |
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1868 | Ulysses Grant elected President GO ! |
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1868 | Ten states readmitted under congressional plan over next two years |
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1868 | 14th Amendment GO ! |
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1869 | General Grant inaugurated as President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1869 | U.S. National Prohibition Party formed in Chicago |
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1869 | First of the Granger laws |
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1869 | Georgia and Virginia reestablish Democratic party control |
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1870 | Colorado is the 38th state admitted to the Union |
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1870 | Fifteenth Amendment ratified GO ! |
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1870 | Force acts |
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1870 | N.Carolina and Georgia reestablish Democratic control |
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1870 | Failure to annex Santo Domingo (Hispaniola) |
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1871 | Congress passed law putting an end to further treaties with Indians. |
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1871 | Congress passes law putting an end to further treaties with Indians. |
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1872 | Grant re-elected President of the U.S. GO ! |
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1872 | U.S. General Amnesty Act pardons most ex-Confederates |
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1873 | Credit Mobilier scandal |
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1873 | Congress demonetises silver |
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1874 | Alabama and Arkansas reestablish Democratic control |
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1875 | Black Hills gold rush incites Sioux War |
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1875 | Civil Rights Act |
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1875 | Mississippi reestablishes Democratic control |
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1875 | Specie Resumption Act |
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1875 | Sugar reciprocity treaty with Hawaii |
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1876 | Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn |
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1876 | S.Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida reestablish Democratic control |
