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Events relating to north america
The US Congress establishes Yellowstone, with its famous geysers, as the world's first national park
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers'
Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Gilded Age, by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, provides the familiar name for life in the US towards the end of the nineteenth century
San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss receives a patent for denim jeans, soon to be known as Levi's
US shoe salesman and YMCA member Dwight L. Moody launches into a new career as a revivalist preacher
Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian confederation, completing the first batch of Canada's provinces
The North-West Mounted Police are formed, with the specific task of policing the wild Northwest Territories of Canada
St Nicholas, a monthly magazine of high literary quality for children, is launched in the USA
Madame Blavatsky founds in New York the Theosophical Society, preaching universal brotherhood with a strong dash of mysticism
Congress passes a Civil Rights Act outlawing segration in the USA on public transport and in hotels and restaurants
Andrew Carnegie's new steel mill near Pittsburgh prospers through automation, new technology and non-union labour
Mary Baker Eddy expounds her beliefs in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, later considered the textbook of Christian Science
US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first practical use of his telephone, summoning his assistant from another room with the words 'Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.'
George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results
In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year
The US inventor Thomas Edison opens an experimental laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, calling it his 'invention factory'
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his new invention, the telephone, at the US Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
Susan B. Anthony presents a Woman's Declaration of Rights at the US centennial Fourth of July celebrations
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Tom and his friends find excitement in a small town on the Mississippi
After a failed bank hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, the whole of the James gang is killed except Jesse and his brother Frank
The Compromise of 1877 settles the disputed US presidential election but ends active Republican commitment to the cause of Reconstruction in the southern states
Puck is launched in the USA as a an illustrated weekly magazine of political satire
Cattle-rustler William H. Bonney becomes known as Billy the Kid in his brief and murderous career of crime in New Mexico
