1870's

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US Grant
Disenfranchise the Blacks
Jim Crow Laws
Election of 1876--
     ends Reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden--Governor
     of New York
Custer's Last Stand & the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Exodustors of 1879
Farmer's Alliance of 1870
Sod Busters
Alexander Graham Bell   
Thomas Edison        
Andrew Smith Hallidie  
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
WCTU & Francis Willard
15th Amendment
First Black Leaders: Revels, Rainey & Pinchback
Chicago Fire
John Powell & the
Colorado River
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Nez Perce Wars &
Chief Joseph
Joseph Glidden