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.

  • 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.

1 comment:

  1. 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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