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GA reenters the Union
•July 15, 1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to reenter the Union. -
R.E. Lee dies
•October 12, 1870: Robert E. Lee, Confederate general in the Civil War, died at the age of 63 at Lexington, Virginia. -
Samuel F. B. Morse dies
•April 2, 1872: Samuel F.B. Morse, American artist and inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, died at the age of 80 in New York City. -
Windmill
J. S. Risdon patents metal windmill that is usually found on farms. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant wins 2nd term; best known for15th Amendment and establishing the National Parks Service. -
Jesse James
July 21, 1873 - Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang engage in the first successful train robbery in the American West, taking three thousand dollars from the Rock Island Express at Adair, Iowa. -
Panic of 1873
•September 1873: A stock market crashed sets off the Panic of 1873, one of the great financial panics of the 19th century. -
Greenback Party established
•November 1874: The Greenback Party was established in the United States. Its constituency were the farmers and workers adversely affected by the Panic of 1873. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
December 15, 1873 - The Women's Crusade of 1873-74 is started when women in Fredonia, New York march against retail liquor dealers, leading to the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1917, this movement would culminate in the the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale of liquor in the United States, a ban that would last for sixteen years. -
1st telephone call
•March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call, saying, "Watson, come here, I need you." -
Regulating Ralroads
Supreme Court allows states to regulat businesses. -
Phonograph patented
•February 19, 1878: Thomas A. Edison patented the phonograph. -
Seismograph
Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
31 May 1880 The seismograph gives great information even on the slightest shifts of tectonic plates
