1870-1879 Events
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1870: Readmission of Virginia, Mississippi, Texas
1870: First Negros in Congress
1870: Fifteenth Amendment ratified
1872: Reconstruction General Amnesty Act
1872: Birth of Calvin Coolidge
1872: Publication of Roughing It
1872: Destruction of the Buffalo
1874: Jesse James' exploits in Missouri
1874: Robert Smalls elected to House of Representatives
1874: Democrats regain control of U.S. House of Representatives
1874: Bourbon Redeemers elected in Alabama and Arkansas
1876: U.S. v. Cruikshank Decision
1876: Southern Homestead Act Repealed
1877: Withdrawal of Forces from Louisiana
1877: Surrender of the Western Tribes
1878: Yellow Fever in Mississippi Valley
1878: Mississippi State University Created
1879: Former Slave Presides Over Senate
1879: First Telephone Exchange Opens in Atlanta
1879: Eads Completes His Mississippi River Project
1879: Edison Invents Electric Lamp
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