1870 |
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The 15th amendment guarantees that no male citizen will be deprived of the right to vote because of race, color or previous condition of servitude. |
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The United States Weather Bureau is established. |
1871 |

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A fire destroys the city of Chicago, Illinois. |
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The first professional baseball association, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, is organized. |
1872 |
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Yellowstone National Park is established for the enjoyment of the public. |
1873 |
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The United States experiences an economic depression, as over 5,000 companies go out of business after a stock market panic. |
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The rapid settlement of the West, after railroads are built there, helps make the American buffalo almost extinct. |
1874 |
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The typewriter offers Americans an alternative to writing business letters and reports by hand. |
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America gets its first public zoo, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens. |
1875 |

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At his California nursery, Luther Burbank begins experiments to create new strains of berries, fruits, vegetables and grasses.
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Congress passes a Civil Rights Bill prohibiting discrimination in public places. |
1876 |
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United States celebrates 100 years as a nation. |
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Almost 10 million people attend the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which featured recent American inventions and products. |
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. |
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Gen. George Custer and his soldiers are killed in a battle with the Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn in Montana. |
1877 |
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President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws the last federal soldiers from the South, leaving the rights of African Americans unprotected. |
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. |
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Nez Perce war with the United States ends when federal troops capture Chief Joseph and his tribe. |
1878 |

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A constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote is rejected by Congress. |
1879 |

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Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. |
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Large numbers of disillusioned African Americans leave the South, many settling in Kansas and Oklahoma. |
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Frank Woolworth opens his first successful five-and-ten cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |