abraham lincoln s assassination at the end of the war lincoln goes to watch a play at ford theater and is shot in the head by john wilkes booth a southern sympathizer and well known actor who thought w the death of lincoln the south may wage war again freedman s bureau a reconstruction bureaucracy set up by the federal govt to aide former slaves into transition to normal civilian life known for heavy corruption from members of general grants presidency th amendment ended slavery was not popular in every state purchase of alaska russia was seeing territory of alaska as economic liability and sold the territory to united states for cash radical reconstruction begins congress which had mostly republicans had two primary goals for reconstruction for slave power to end and suppress southern nationalism the south was to divided into military districts and undergoes numerous stipulations before it could re enter the union andrew johnson trial charges of impeachment were brought against johnson who fired secretary of war edwin stanton and replaced with lorenzo thomas accusers said that johnson violated tenure of office act johnson was vote short of being guilty and supreme court ruled the act unconstitutional sig johnson made into lame duck president th amendment gave citizenship to african americans established equal protection under law ended ths compromise denied ex confederates the right to hold office u s would not pay confederate debt or for loss of slaves reversed dred scott case transcontinental railroad complete a federally funded railroad which went from iowa to california built by the central pacific and union pacific companies railroad met in promontory point utah standard oil created company founded by john d rockefeller was the world s largest oil producing transporting refining and marketing company knights of labor created labor organization which advocated end of child labor better wages and equal treatment and pay for women and african americans wyoming gives women right to vote wyoming became the first state to give women suffrage followed by other states as well battle of little big horn indians led by sitting bull defeated the th regiment of the u s army in the montana territory one of most important battles in the new frontier b w u s army and rebellious indians election of was one of the most disputed subjected and intense presidential elections in american history samuel j tilden of new york out polled ohio's rutherford hayes in the popular vote and had electoral votes to hayes' with votes yet uncounted these electoral votes were in dispute in three states florida louisiana and south carolina each party reported its candidate had won the state while in oregon one elector was declared illegal on account of being an elected or appointed official and replaced the disputed electoral votes were ultimately awarded to hayes after a bitter legal and political battle giving him the victory compromise of southern democrats would award hayes the presidency if only the federal govt removed all troops from former confederate states for there to be at least one democrat in hayes cabinet a transcontinental railroad to build in the south and the industrialization of the south page great railroad strike outraged workers began to strike when baltimore and ohio railroad announced their third cut of wages by percent on july the strikes quickly spread through railroads from st louis to the east coast strikes began to become violent as strikers and militias began firing at each other and workers destroyed rolling stocks and roundhouses by the first week of august at least strikers militiamen and bystanders had been killed and hundreds had been injured millions of dollars of property had also been destroyed throughout the strikes the worst labor violence in u s history up to that time chief joseph surrendered chief joseph was the chief of the nez perce indians of idaho when gold was discovered on the nez perce reservation the government promptly tried to get shrink the tribe by chief joseph finally surrendered his tribe after seeing his tribe reduce in size as member after member were being killed thinking they were going to be relocated in the ancestral lands in idaho they were sent to a reservation in kansas instead where of them died due to disease james garfield assassinated james a garfield was known as a dark horse candidate who was nominated f