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  1. Black Representation Increases in Federal and State Governments
    date March 4, 1873map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    As Reconstruction progressed, blacks became more assertive and prominent in the southern Republican Party. African-Americans began to flex their political muscles despite common obstacles of white dominance. An example of momentary white repression occurred in South Carolina to black politician Robert B. Elliott, who later took a seat in the House. It is likely that South Carolina would have had an...

  2. William Pitt Kellogg is officially named Governor of Louisiana by President Grant
    date May 22, 1873map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    After a much disputed 1872 election, which saw both candidates claim governorship, Illinois carpetbagger William P. Kellogg was named governor over Democratic candidate, John McEnery in early 1873. Although The Courier-Journal reported the allegation that Kellogg's opponent, John McEnery, received almost 7,000 more votes, the Courier also revealed that Kellogg issued a bill of complaint. Here, Kellogg...

  3. Currency and Banking Bill and Economic Recession
    date February 3, 1874 to April, 1874map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Economy

    On February 3, 1874 Republican Senator John Sherman from Ohio presented a Bill in Congress with a purpose to stabilize and reissue the currency and provide for free banking. Sherman's Currency and Banking Bill was turned into an “Inflation Bill' by the amendments made to it by several Western and Southern Congressmen from both the Republican and Democrat parties. The amended bill would bring...

  4. The Panic of 1873
    date September 25, 1873 to December 31, 1879map Prince Georges, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Jay Cooke and Co., a major Philadelphia investment firm, set off the Panic of 1873 when it declared bankruptcy on September 18. The boom in railroad reconstruction in the South coupled with successful westward expansion projects such as the Union Pacific Railroad had caused investors and speculators to bet heavily on new transportation projects (like a second transcontinental railroad, the Northern...

  5. Railway Labor Strike
    date July 16, 1877 to July 29, 1877map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy

    On July 16, 1877 tensions over pay cuts for railway workers finally came to a head as firemen and brakemen for railroads in Baltimore went on strike. The strikers assembled at Camden Junction, 30 miles from Baltimore, and refused to allow trains to move in any direction. Word of the strike quickly spread to West Virginia, and eventually into Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kentucky as other railway workers...

  6. Ratification of the 14th Amendment
    date July 9, 1868map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868. President Johnson issued a proclamation announcing its ratification on July 11, 1868 in the aftermath of the amendment's acceptance in Florida and North Carolina. The radical Republican Congress that dominated Reconstruction enacted the measure. The 14th Amendment extended citizenship to blacks, overturning the Dred Scott decision...

  7. Bartle Family murdered
    date May 3, 1851map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Crime/Violence

    On May 3rd three members of the Bartle family were brutally murdered by an Italian man who had worked the Bartle's fields. Accounts stated that there was an altercation the week prior to the murder between Bartle and the Italian worker over wages he felt he deserved. The family members killed were all struck in the head with a blunt object and were all found in a gruesome mannerEvents such as this...

  8. South Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1876
    date November 7, 1876 to April 11, 1877map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    For the 1876 gubernatorial race in South Carolina, the Democrats nominated General Wade Hampton, one of the state's most popular figures among the white population, and Republicans renominated Governor Chamberlain who was appointed during reconstruction. Hampton embarked on a tour of the state, accompanied by hundreds of armed supporters, while rifle clubs disrupted Republican rallies with violent...

  9. Fighting in the Schoolyard
    date January 10, 1873map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    The schoolyard of the Colored Academy at Pine River was alive with excitement on the afternoon of the tenth of January, 1873. George Green, a sturdy young man of around eighteen years, attempted to kiss the little bronze beauty Roberta. When Professor Thomas Henaforth discovered what had transpired outside of his school, he set out to punish the mischievous youth. At four o'clock in the afternoon,...

  10. Grant Ends the Brooks-Baxter War in Arkansas
    date May 15, 1874map PULASKI, Arkansastags War

    In January of 1873, after Elisha Baxter, a Republican, was elected as governor of Arkansas in 1872, Joseph Brooks, who was supported by Liberals, Democrats, and Arkansas Unionists, claimed that the election had been “doctored' and that he was the rightful governor. After being informed that the Supreme Court of Arkansas had no jurisdiction in settling the decision and that it was up to the General...

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