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1864 |
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1865 |
April 9 |
Surrender at Appomattox |
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Assassination of Lincoln |
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December 6 |
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February |
Impeachment of Johnson |
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Fourteenth Amendment ratified |
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November |
Election of Grant |
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1870 |
February 3 |
Fifteenth Amendment ratified |
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1871 |
April and |
Grant sends in troops against the Klan |
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