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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 .

  2. 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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  4. The 1870 census was the first census to provide detailed information on the African American population, only five years after the culmination of the Civil War when slaves were granted freedom. The total population was 38,925,598 with a resident population of 38,558,371 individuals, a 22.6% increase from 1860.

  5. Categories: 1870s by country. 19th century in the United States. 1870s in North America. Decades in the United States. Hidden categories: Commons category link from Wikidata. Category series navigation decade and century.

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