- 1870--The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is declared ratified. It gave the right to vote for black Americans.
- 1870--The National Weather Service makes its first official weather forecast.
- 1871--The first professional baseball league plays a game.
- 1871--The great Chicago fire started. The fire killed 250 people and left 90,000 homeless.
- 1871--National Rifle Association is granted charter by the State of New York.
- 1872--The world's first national park is established--Yellowstone National Park in the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
- 1873--Jesse James and the James-Younger gang engage in the first successful train robbery in Iowa.
- 1874--The first United States zoo opens in Philadelphia.
- 1875--The first Kentucky Derby is run in Kentucky.
- 1876--The United States government orders all Native Americans onto a system of reservations.
- 1876--The Battle of Little Big Horn occurs. General George Custer dies in the battle.
- 1877--Indian leader, Crazy Horse, surrenders to the United States Army in Nebraska.
- 1878--Thomas Edison patents the cylinder phonograph.
- 1878--The Edison Electric Company begins operation.
- 1879--The first five and dime store is opened--Woolworths.
"So often we become so focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy the journey." President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Thursday, November 13, 2014
New Decade
Grandpa and I are now working on probate files from the 1870s. While everyday people were going about their days here's what was happening in the United States.
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I am taking a history class and just wrote a paper on a few of these things! Now onto a paper on The Grapes of Wrath.
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