| 1879-10-01 | Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide
3 src 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
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company | | confirmed |
| 1878-06-18 | Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1877-07-16 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Erupts Across Nation, Federal Troops Deployed Against Workers
5 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Army | | confirmed |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
4 src Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1877-03-01 | Munn v. Illinois: Supreme Court Affirms Public Power to Regulate Monopolies
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Illinois Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval
3 src U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1876-03-27 | United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
4 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1876-03-02 | War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1875-05-10 | Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department |
| confirmed |
| 1875-01-01 | Carnegie Opens Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Introduces Bessemer Process at Scale
3 src Andrew Carnegie | | confirmed |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
3 src White League · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1874-11-18 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded Creating Alliance and Opposition to Suffrage
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1874-09-14 | Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
3 src White League · Ulysses S. Grant | | confirmed |
| 1874-08-30 | Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
3 src White League | | confirmed |
| 1874-07-02 | Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands
3 src U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption
3 src U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1873-11-19 | Boss Tweed Convicted After Second Trial
3 src William "Boss" Tweed · Elihu Root |
| confirmed |
| 1873-09-18 | Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse
3 src Northern Pacific Railroad | | confirmed |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government
4 src Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1873-01-06 | House Launches Credit Mobilier Investigation
3 src U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1872-11-05 | Susan B. Anthony Arrested for Voting in Presidential Election Tests 14th Amendment
3 src Susan B. Anthony · Ulysses S. Grant | | confirmed |
| 1872-09-04 | Credit Mobilier Scandal: The Birth of the Gilded Age
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | confirmed |
| 1871-10-21 | Thomas Nast Cartoon Depicts Tweed as Money Bag
3 src William "Boss" Tweed | | confirmed |
| 1871-07-08 | New York Times Exposes Tweed Ring with Stolen Records
3 src New York Times · William "Boss" Tweed | | confirmed |
| 1871-04-20 | Congressional Hearings on KKK Terrorism During Reconstruction Reveal Systematic Collective Punishment | | |
| 1871-04-20 | Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1870-01-10 | Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | confirmed |