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1866 -- The Ku Klux Klan formed as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee.
1866 -- Maryland outlawed the "Black Codes."
1868 -- The Fourteenth Amendment extended citizenship to former slaves.
Dec 25, 1868 -- President Andrew Johnson issued a conditional pardon to all former Confederates.
May 10, 1869 -- The first transcontinental railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah.
Mar 30, 1870 -- The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
1870 -- Maryland imposed property qualifications for voters. |