Reconstruction
  
  
  
  
  The period is known as Reconstruction- the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. Most of it was not physical and much of the politics surronded the rights of the former slaves. It was a time however, also of scientific advancement and industrial advancement.
  
  
      
      
  
  1865 13th Amendment
  1866 Tennessee Readmited to the Union
  1866 Black Codes
  1867 Reconstruction Act
  1867 14th Amendment
  1867 Alaska Purchase
  1868 Battle of Beecher Island
  1868 Impeachement of Johnson
  1869 15th Amendment
  1869 Transcontinental Railway
  1869 Battle Black Kettle Island
  1869 Black Friday
  1869 Women Granted Rigth to Vote in Wyoming
  1870 Standard Oil Founded
  1871 Treaty of Washington
  1871 Chicago Fire
  1871 Boss Tweed Corruption
  1872 Battle of Skull Mountain
  1873 Economic Panic of 1873
  1875 Resumption of Specie Act
  1875 Civil Rights Act
  1876 Telephone Invented
  1876 Centennial Exposition
  1876 Gold Discovered in Dakotas
  1876 Custer Killled in Battle of Little Bighorn
  1877 Battle of Wolf Mountain
  1877 End of Reconstruction
   
  
  
   
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