WWW-VL: HISTORY: USA: RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1880

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  • Wars with the Plains Indians
  • The Robber Barons
  • Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring of New York City
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  • Biography
    • Benjamin Butler
    • Salmon P. Chase
    • Thomas Nast
    • Wendell Phillips
    • Edwin Stanton
    • Thaddeus Stevens
    • Charles Sumner
    • Gideon Welles
• Timelines
  • Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline
  • From Frontier to Factory Timeline 1845-1916
  • 1860s, wikipedia
  • 1870s, wikipedia
  • Life of U.S. Grant
• Chronological
  • Surveys and Overviews
    • "Three Months Among the Reconstuctionists," Atlantic Monthly, February 1866, pp. 237-245. from Furman
    • "The Reconstruction Period,", by Booker T. Washington (1901)
    • "The Freedman's Bureau" by W.E.B. Dubois, The Atlantic March 1901
    • Reconstruction in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
    • Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America. Reconstruction
  • The Administration of Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
    • Andrew Johnson's Home
    • 1865
      • Establishment of the Freman's Bureau
      • Amendment XIII to the Constitution 18 December
    • 1866
      • Veto of the Civil Rights Bill
      • Amendment XIV to the Constitution 8 June and 13 June
      • The Ku Klux Klan
      • Ex Parte Milligan
      • The Fatal Fetterman Fight December 1866
    • 1867
      • The Reconstruction Act
      • The Purchase of Alaska 1867
    • 1868
      • Amendment XIV to the Constitution 28 July
      • The Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
      • Report to the President by the Indian Peace Commission, January 3, 1868, from Furman
      • The Presidential Impeachment
        • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
        • Harper's Weekly, The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
        • The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson 1868
        • The Principals in the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson 1868
        • Salmon Portland Chase 1803-1873
        • Andrew Johnson. Saved by a Scoundrel
        • History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and His Trial by the Senate, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Office, 1868, by Edmund G. Ross (Gutenberg text)
      • Charles Goodnight 1836-1929 [opened the Goodnight-Loving cattle trail]
      • The Election of 1868, from HarpWeek
      • United States Presidential Elections, from David Leip
  • The Presidency of Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877
    • The Presidency of Ulysses Simson Grant
    • Ulysses Simpson Grant
    • Ulysses Simpson Grant. A Biography
    • U.S. Grant Photo Gallery
    • Ulysses S. Grant Association
    • Scandals of the Grant Administration
    • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant Volume 1. (Gutenberg text}
    • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant. Volume 2 (Gutenberg text)
    • President Grant Reconsidered, by Frank J. Scaturro [frame- and cookie-dependent page images at Electric Press]
    • 1869
      • John Muir's Yosemite Journal 1869
      • Black Hills Treaty 29 April
      • Address to the National Labor Union of the United States. May
      • The Transcontinental Railway
      • Joining Tracks of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads [image]
      • The Avondale Mine Disaster 6 September [PA]
      • Black Friday 24 September
    • 1870
      • Admendment XV to the Constitution 30 March
      • American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
      • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
      • The Chinese in California, by Lucy St. John, from Robert Merry's Museum, February, 1870, pp. 69-71.
    • 1871
      • The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
      • Extracts from the Emporia (Kansas) News
      • Hard Times Along the Trail [Chisholm Trail in 1871]
      • The First Steamboat Voyage on Western Waters, J.H.B. Latrobe (1871)
    • 1872
      • Events of the Year 1872
      • The Election of 1872, from HarpWeek
      • United States Presidential Elections, from David Leip
    • 1873
      • Events of the Year 1873
      • The Crime of 1873
      • Report on the Credit Mobilier of the United States 1873
      • The Credit Mobilier Scandal
      • The Panic of 1873
        • The Grant Administration. Panic of 1873
        • Jay Cooke and the Panic, from PBS
        • The Financial Panic of 1873
      • The Slaughter-House Cases
      • Bradwell vs Illinois
      • The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
      • Illinois During the Gilded Age: 1873-1876, by Drew VandeCreek
    • 1874
      • Events of the Year 1874
      • The Black Hills Gold Rush
      • Joseph Glidden Invents a Practical Barbed Wire
      • Glidden's Patent for Barbed Wire, from NARA, Teaching With Documents
    • 1875
      • Events of the Year 1875
      • Carnegie's Bessemer Converter Begins Making Steel August
      • Industrial Revolution- The Bessemer Converter
      • Deposition of Brigham Young Regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre 30 July
    • 1876
      • Events of the Year 1876
      • Lakota Noon at the Greasy Grass [The Battle of the Little Big Horn]
      • The Centennial Exhibition -- Philadelphia 1876
      • The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
      • The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition, by James Dabney McCabe (1876)
      • The Election of 1876
        • HarpWeek. The Election of 1876
        • Biographies of Major Participants
        • Samuel J. Tilden 1814-1886
        • Samuel J. Tilden, Opponent of Tammany Hall: Moral Integrity Compromised for Political Expediency, by Mike Epstein
        • Rutherford B. Hayes
        • Finding Precedent: Hayes vs. Tilden; The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877
        • The Election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877
      • Farewell Address, Ulysses S. Grant
  • Topics
    • The Wars with the Plains Indians
      • Notable Persons
        • Phil Sheridan 1831-1888
        • John Chivington 1821-1894
        • Alfred Terry 1827-1890
        • George Armstrong Custer 1839-1876
        • Sitting Bull - Tatanka-Iyotanka 1831-1890
        • Crazy Horse - Tashunca-uitco 1849-1877
      • Background
        • Walks-a-Heaps. Black Infantrymen in the West
        • Red Cloud Makhpiya-Luta 1822-1909 [conducted 1866-1868 Ogalala war]
        • The Fatal Fetterman Fight December 1866
        • The Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
      • Little Big Horn
        • Lakota Noon at the Greasy Grass
        • Guns of Little Big Horn 25 June 1876
        • Little Big Horn Cover-up?
    • The Robber Barons
      • "Robber Barons," by J. Bradford DeLong
      • The Robber Barons
      • Jim Fiske and the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad
      • Jay Gould 1836-1892, A Biography
      • The Corporate Revolution
      • Businessmen and "That Creature," the Corporation
      • Great Legacy of America’s Robber Baron's
    • The Tweed Ring of New York City
      • The Boss Tweed Page
      • William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed: Corrupt New York City Political "Boss"
      • The Tweed Ring and Thomas Nast. New York City, 1865-1871
      • Boss Tweed and the Rise and Fall of the Tweed Ring
  • Unsorted
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