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    1875 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1875th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 875th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1875, the ...

  2. Oct 2, 2019 · 1871. President Ulysses S. Grant creates the Civil Service Commission. The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 is passed. Tribes will no longer be seen as independent but as wards of the State. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 is passed. This act allows the president to send in troops to enforce the 14th amendment. The Treaty of Washington between the ...

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  4. The Page Act of 1875 is enacted. [1] Passed amid rising nativistic and anti-Chinese sentiment, the Act restricts the immigration of Chinese women to the U.S. [2] March 15 – Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the U.S. April – ' Albert's swarm ' of Rocky Mountain locusts begins to devastate the ...

  5. James Clerk Maxwell FRSE FRS (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

  6. Birth of the Third Republic, 1875 30 January 1875. After four years of uncertainty over the leadership of the country, the Third Republic was firmly instituted in Versailles in 1875. The proclamation quenched the monarchist quarrels.

  7. The Page Act of 1875 was the first federal immigration law that prohibited a certain group of people from entering the United States. The law was named after Representative Horace F. Page from California. While the Page Act outlawed all contract labor, it particularly targeted Chinese women.

  8. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prevent being excluded from jury duty.

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