TIMELINE OF RECONSTRUCTION
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Updated: 1 Nov 2017
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Created byEdward ORSBORN
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Events
Monroe Doctrine announced.The phrase ‘Manifest Destiny’ is coined in an essay by John L. O’Sullivan.The Homestead Act is passed.End of the Civil War
and the assassination of President Lincoln.The Civil Rights Bill and the Fourteenth Amendment.Military Reconstruction BillAlaska purchased from Russia.Impeachment of Johnson and the election of Ulysses Grant.Fifteenth amendment passedBlack FridayThe opening of the first
Transcontinental Railroad.Standard Oil Company set up by
John D. Rockefeller.Britain agreed to pay compensation
to the USA for damage caused
Confederate ships built in British dockyards.Colfax Massacre and the Depression of 1873.Second Gold Rush in the Black Hills of Dakota.Great Sioux WarThe end of Reconstruction.The Compromise electionContested electionBattle of the Little Big Horn.
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