War between Austria and
Prussia.
1867. British North America Act.
Slave children emancipated
in Brazil.
Fall and execution of
Maximilian in Mexico.
1868. Rise of acute disorder in 1868. Mikado resumes
"reconstructed" South. government in Japan.
1870. Amendment securing negro 1870. Papal infallibility.
suffrage. Franco-German War.
1872. Alabama arbitration with 1872. Alabama arbitration with
Great Britain. U. S. A.
Responsible Government in
Cape Colony.
1876. Admitted failure of Reconstruction. Election of Hayes.
1877. Federal troops withdrawn from South.
1878. Slavery abolished in Cuba (last of Spanish Colonies).
INDEX
Abolition and Abolitionists: Early movement dies down, 36-9; rise of later movement, 50-2; persecuted, 51, 76; Lincoln's attitude, 76, 101, 116, 126-7, 151; their position in view of civil war, 172. See Slavery and Garrison.