America's Founding
Primary Source Documents:
1868 - Amendment XIV in the Bill of Rights - U.S. citizens
rights to life, liberty or property and clarification on who can be in
government positions such as Congress.
Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth U.S. President
(1865-1869)
Impeachment of
President Andrew Johnson.
February 24-March
2, 1868 - Andrew Johnson was impeached by House of Representatives. March 5-May 16, 1868
- impeachment trial in the Senate.
Trial concluded with one vote shy of
impeachment, therefore Johnson remained as President.
Education:
Morrill Act established Land-grant Industrial colleges to meet the needs of farmers and laborers to improve their social and economic status.
65 new land-grant colleges were established including:
University of Maine (1865)
University of Illinois (1867)
University of West Virginia (1867)
University of California (1868)
Purdue University (1869)
University of Nebraska (1869)
Ohio University (1870)
University of Arkansas (1871)
Texas A&M University (1871)
Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 140-141 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010
see 1869 for next event...
Literature: Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women in 1868.
Native Americans 1866-68:
Bozeman Trail war between U.S. and Plains Indians (Great Plains)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996