First Reconstruction Act passed
Nebraska statehood
Federal officials establish Peace Commission
National Grange formed
President Johnson impeached (1868)
Fourteenth amendment ratified (1868)
U.S. signs treaty with Plains Indians promising them a reservation in the Black Hills of the Dakotas (1868)
George Westinghouse invents the air brake (1868)
Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States (1869)
Nation Women's Suffrage Association formed (1869)
Edison invents the electric voting machine (1869)
First transcontinental railroad complete (1869) |