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The Gilded Age
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13th Amendment
1865
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Abolished slavery in America.
Civil War Ends
1865
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Immigrants Support Political Machines
1865 - 1900
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Political Machines gained power through doing favors for the most poor or sorry individuals in their community so they could get re-elected. Immigrants, who were most often feel under the "most sorry" category of people, were often drawn to political machines.
14th Amendment
1868
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Granted citizenship to African-Americans
15th Amendment
1870
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Proclaimed that voters could not be denied on basis of color, race, or previous condition of servitude
The Fall of Boss Tweed
1870
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Caused by Thomas Nast's exposing political cartoons
Panic of 1873
1873
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Caused by railroad companies over borrowing for the construction of railroads, led to deep economic depression
Invention of the Telophone
1876
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, first form of long-distance verbal communication
Immigrant Population
1880 - 1889
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3/4 of populations of most large cities were composed of immigrants or the children of immigrants
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890
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Banned any business combination which held a monopoly over interstate commerce
South
African-Americans turn to Republicans
1865 - 1893
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The Republican party platform had always (Until the 1890's) had a principle of giving African-Americans equality, thus drawing a large African-American support system.
Freedmen's Bureau Established
1865
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Protects freedmen, gives former slaves a chance at education, religion, and equality.
Reconstruction Act
1867
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10 Confederate states divided into military districts, state constitutions rewritten to give Freedmen voting rights, disenfranchisement of all former Confederates
Slaughterhouse Cases
1873
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Knock the legs out from underneath the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
US vs Cruikshank
1875
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Supreme Court case that weakened the 14th Amendment, and African-Americans were forced to go to state governments to attempt to fix their problems.
Compromise of 1877
1877
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White southern Democrats agreed that president Hayes would have a peaceful inauguration as long as fed troops were removed from the South.
Plessy vs Ferguson
1896
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Supreme Court case that ended with a ruling that claimed blacks and whites could have "separate but equal institutions." Marks the beginning of segregation.
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Transcontinental Railroad Finished
1869
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Railroad that connects the Atlantic to the Pacific, encourages western settlement
The Battle of Little Big Horn
1876
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Indian's last stand: the last fight the Indians ever win against the Americans.
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882
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Law passed by the state of California that forebode the entrance of Chinese immigrants into the state. (Nativism)
Dawes Severalty Act
1887
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Indian Reservation Land would be divided into individual family farms (Americanization of Indians)
Interstate Commerce Act
1887
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Proclaimed that railroad rates must be "reasonable and just." America's first step toward Regulated Capitalism
Curtis Act
1898
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Dissolved the Indian Territory of the Five Civilized Tribes (OK). (Americanization of Indians)