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Events relating to america
Bret Harte's comic ballad Plain Language from Truthful James acquires a popular alternative title, The Heathen Chinee
US anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan inaugurates kinship studies with his massive Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
Civil War veterans in the USA establish the National Rifle Association to promote marksmanship
US president Ulysses S. Grant uses the new Civil Rights Act to suppress the violent Ku Klux Klan in southern states
A fire in Chicago destroys a third of the city, to be followed by an extremely rapid and successful period of reconstruction
British Columbia agrees to join the Canadian confederation on the promise of a transcontinental railway
Italian US immigrant Antonio Meucci files a patent in New York for the invention of the telephone
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'
