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The Reconstruction era has typically been dated from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 until the withdrawal of the final remaining federal troops stationed in the Southern United States in 1877, though a few other periodization schemes have also been proposed by historians. [6]
1 year 6 months 1 year 6 months −25.2% −20.8% The period of 1893–1897 is seen as a generally depressed cycle that had a short spurt of growth in the middle, following the Panic of 1893. Production shrank and deflation reigned. [26] 1899–1900 recession June 1899 – December 1900 1 year 6 months 2 years −15.5% −8.8%
Reconstruction Era: 1865–1877 ... The California gold rush (1848–1855) ... By the end of 1848, some 6,000 Argonauts had come to California. ...
The following year, the Camp fire devastated the Northern California town of Paradise, killing 85 people, destroying about 14,000 homes and displacing about 50,000.
President Theodore Roosevelt declares the end of Philippine–American War, July 4, 1902; Boxer Rebellion, November 2, 1899 – September 7, 1901 The Society of Right and Harmonious Fists attacks Beijing, June 20, 1900; The Eight-Nation Alliance relieves Beijing, August 14, 1900; The Boxer Protocol is imposed on China, September 7, 1901
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War , which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's ...