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The 15th amendment was added. This amendment guarantees that one male citizen will be deprived of the right to vote because of they're race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.
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The first professional baseball association, the national. Association of professional baseball players, is organized.
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America gets it's first public zoo, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens.
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1878
A constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote is rejected by Congress. -
Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.