Timeline - The 1870s. The decade would hold a celebration of the nation's 100th birthday barely ten years after a Civil War, but most remarkable was not the anniversary, but the intellectual and industrial progress that the USA would make. By 1876, the genius of its inventors was being noticed around the world.

14/06/2020 · The 1870s continued the trends of the previous decade, as new empires, imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia. The United States was recovering from the American Civil War. Labor unions and strikes occurred worldwide in the later part of the decade, and continued until World War I. This is thoroughly answered here.

10/04/2015 · What Happened in America in the 1870's. When the 1870s began, the Civil War had been over for less than five years. This decade was a time of continued reconstruction and reunification after the horrible destruction of the war. It was also a time of expansion across the Midwest to the coastlines.

POP Culture: 1870. ICONS: Yellowstone National Park, George Armstrong Custer, Phonograph. John D. Rockefeller incorporates the Standard Oil Company. It would eventually become the largest oil company in the world before the U.S. Supreme Court declared it an "unreasonable monopoly" under the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1911.

1870-1900: Industrial Development. After the Civil War, the United States rapidly transformed into an industrial, urbanized nation. Technological innovation, economic growth, development of large-scale agriculture, and the expansion of the federal government characterized the era, as did the social tensions brought about by immigration, financial ...

With relations already complicated by the Opium Wars and the Treaties of Wangxia and Tianjian>, the increasingly harsh restrictions on Chinese immigration, combined with the rising discrimination against Chinese living in the United States in the 1870s-early 1900s, placed additional strain on the diplomatic relationship between the United States and China.

During the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s American scientists gained valuable knowledge from their European neighbors, and they gradually began to apply the lessons they learned to their own experiments and institutions. The Professionalization of Science. Between 1850 and 1877 American science emerged as a modern profession.

Larry Holzwarth - March 30, 2019. The late 19 th century in the United States was a period of rapid change which affected all elements of American life. Cities began to grow upwards as well as outwards. The railroads became the engine of the national economy, which grew to become one of the strongest in world.