The Reconstruction Era

• 1863: Lincoln announces "10 Percent Plan."
• 1865: Freedman's Bureau is established.
  • Lincoln is assassinated.
  • Johnson's amnesty plan.
  • Thirteenth Amendment is ratified.
• 1866: Civil Rights Act is passed over Johnson's veto.
• 1867: Alaska Purchased.
  • First Reconstruction Act.
• 1868: Fourth Reconstruction Act.
  • Fourteenth Amendment is ratified.
  • Ku Klux Klan begins.
• 1869: Belle Babb Mansfield becomes the first woman lawyer in the United States
• 1870: Fifteenth Amendment is ratified.
  • Force Act
• 1875: Civil Rights Act.
• 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn.
• 1877: President Hayes agrees to compromise of 1877.
• 1881: Tuskeegee Institute is founded.
• 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act passed.
• 1887: Pearl Harbor acquired.
• 1890-1900: Blacks are deprived of the vote in the South.
• 1895: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech.
• 1896: Plessy vs. Ferguson.

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