1865-1890 - Timeline

End of the Civil War

Lincoln gets shot and leniant Democrat Johnson takes over

13th Ammendment

KKK formation

Military Reconstruction Act places the south into martial law

Black Codes being passed in the south to keep the African Americans in psuedo-slavery

Congress attempts to impeach Johnson

By now all states have been readmitted to the union

Railroad strikes, federal troops are sent ot keep the peace

Panic of 1973 lands North America and some of Europe into a depression until 1879

The disputed election lead to the comprimise of 1877 marking the end of reconstruction

Republican Rutherford B Hayes is controversially elected to office

President James Garfield is shot and would alter die of his wounds

Republican James Garfield takes office as President

Chester Arthur takes over from Garfield pledging to continue his policy of reform

Pendleton Civil Service Reform act makes 14% of federal jobs decided by competetive examination

Democrat Grover Cleveland enters office for his first term

Sherman Anti-trust act to stop companies operating over state lines

By this point 80% of Chicago and NYC's population are 1st or 2nd gen immigrants

By this point immigrant worker make up 50% of manafacturing labour

Chinese exclusion act bans chinese immigration

The first transcontinental railroad is finished built by mainly chinese immigrants

JD Rockefeller sets up Standard Oil in Ohio

Carnegie introduces the British Bessemer converter making steel cheaper and faster to make

14th Amendment passed making the civil rights bill into a permenent part of the constitution

15th Amendment passed protecting African-American voting rights

Civil Rights Act gives basic civil rights to African-Americans

Freedman's Bureau established to support freed slaves with education and healthcare

Republican Benjamin Harrison is elected president

Whisky Ring scandal exposed damaging Grant's reputation

Salary Grab Act is passed and later withdrawn due to outcry The act would have given pay rises to Congress and the President

Start of the Great Sioux War with the Sioux Native American Tribe that were nearly wiped out

Massacre at Wounded Knee killed 300 Native Americans including 200 women and children

Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2million

The US aquires the uninhabited Midway Islands in the Pacific ocean

The Dominican Republic offered itself for colonisation but was denied by the Senate seeing them as "savages"

Alabama Claims in which America demanded $2billion from the UK for building confederate ships. Lead to the Fenian Raids in Canada

JP Morgan sets up his bank JP Morgan & Co

Knights of Labour founded

McCormick Harvester Works strike leads to violence and the death of many protesters to the hands of police

Haymarket Bomb Outrage leads to the fall of the Knights of Labour and the death of many protesters

Alien Contract Labour Law bans foreign contract labour