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The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879. The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as new empires , imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia .
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened. Wyatt Outlaw, the first African American town commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, is lynched by mob of Ku ...
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Oct 30, 2018 · A global drought in the 1870s caused mass starvation in South America, Africa and Asia, but the event doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Now it seems the drought was triggered by a...
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February 28 – Indian Wars – Agreement of 1877 (19 Stat. 254): Congress annexes Sioux Indian land, including the Black Hills. March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7 ...
Nov 25, 2013 · The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s–1940s | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic. Volume 118. Issue 5. Next > Journal Article. Whose Time Is It? The Pluralization of Time and the Global Condition, 1870s–1940s. Vanessa Ogle.
Beyond race, there were also major disruptions and changes in American society during the 1870s involving the economy, landscape and society at large. Greed and corruption seemed rampant. Political and social tensions that had been held back somewhat during the Civil War now exploded into the public consciousness and for many defined a decade ...
