1870s
The 1870s contain 32 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1879-10-01 | Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt · U.S. government · U.S. War Department · Bureau of Indian Affairs | confirmed | |
| 1879-01-01 | Standard Oil Attorney Develops Trust Legal Innovation to Circumvent Anti-Monopoly Laws Samuel C. T. Dodd · John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company | confirmed | |
| 1878-06-18 | Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage Richard P. Bland · William B. Allison · Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1877-07-16 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Erupts Across Nation, Federal Troops Deployed Against Workers Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Army · Railroad workers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration Pinkerton Detective Agency · Franklin B. Gowen · Philadelphia & Reading Railroad · James McParlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-03-01 | Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Affirms Public Power to Regulate Monopolies U.S. Supreme Court · Morrison Waite · National Grange · Illinois Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Lakota people · President Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats · Northern Republicans · Disenfranchised Black Americans | confirmed | |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting Red Shirts · Benjamin Tillman · Wade Hampton III · Matthew Butler · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1876-03-27 | United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · Colfax Massacre Perpetrators | confirmed | |
| 1876-03-02 | War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships William W. Belknap · Ulysses S. Grant · Caleb Marsh · Hiester Clymer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1875-05-10 | Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue Benjamin H. Bristow · Orville Babcock · Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1875-01-01 | Carnegie Opens Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Introduces Bessemer Process at Scale Andrew Carnegie · Edgar Thomson Steel Works | confirmed | |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1874-11-18 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded Creating Alliance and Opposition to Suffrage Frances Willard · Annie Wittenmyer · Woman's Christian Temperance Union · Liquor Industry | confirmed | |
| 1874-09-14 | Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government White League · James Longstreet · William Pitt Kellogg · Ulysses S. Grant · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1874-08-30 | Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government White League · Dick Coleman · Thomas Floyd · Marshall Twitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1874-07-02 | Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer · U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Horatio Ross (prospector) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant · Elihu Washburne | confirmed | |
| 1873-11-19 | Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial William "Boss" Tweed · New York Court System · David Dudley Field II (Defense) · Elihu Root | confirmed | |
| 1873-09-18 | Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse Jay Cooke & Company · Northern Pacific Railroad · New York Stock Exchange · European Investors | confirmed | |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature · Crescent City Livestock Company · New Orleans Butchers | confirmed | |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · Grant Parish Black Militia | confirmed | |
| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation U.S. House of Representatives · Oakes Ames · James Brooks (Congressman) · Poland Committee | confirmed | |
| 1872-11-05 | Susan B. Anthony Arrested for Voting in Presidential Election Tests 14th Amendment Susan B. Anthony · Ward Hunt · John Van Voorhis · Sylvester Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age Oakes Ames · Schuyler Colfax · Union Pacific Railroad · Credit Mobilier of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · South Improvement Company | confirmed | |
| 1871-10-21 | Thomas Nast Cartoon Depicts Tweed as Money Bag Thomas Nast · Harper's Weekly · William "Boss" Tweed · Tammany Hall | confirmed | |
| 1871-07-08 | New York Times Exposes Tweed Ring with Stolen Records New York Times · George Jones (Publisher) · William "Boss" Tweed · Tammany Hall | confirmed | |
| 1871-04-20 | Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence Ulysses S. Grant · 42nd United States Congress · Amos Akerman · Ku Klux Klan | confirmed | |
| 1870-01-10 | Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel Andrews · +1 | confirmed |