What was going on in the U.S. in the 1870's?
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The Sioux War 1876-1877.  Reconstruction ended in 1877.
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These are very common subjects. You may consider doing research or checking class notes. For lack of that,\nthere was a big burst of industry after the civil war. Things became more advanced. More people moved to the United States and of course, emancipation of slaves had a great effect on the diversity of the population. Maybe these facts can help you to understand what sort of development you're looking for?\n\nSorry I couldn't be more helpful!
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Very very turbulent, hung over, jittery period in world history generally. If you think government and the news today are a show, they learned from the masters then. Look at a series of ref. books in the library called the American Century, take it with a grain of salt. Also This Fabulous Century. You'll breeze through it.
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Don't have an exact date, but I will look to see if I can find it and if so, modify this answer.  However, I do remember that the Underground Railroad was in operation between 1830-1865.
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This sounds like a homework question to me. Sorry, I won't help you. I feel you need to read BOTH and you come up with the answer. You need to know these things.\n\nI will tell you this. The North distorted the truth about the Civil War or War between the States.  The war was NOT fought because of slavery. The north had slaves too. They were fighting over textiles, cotton, land, resources it was all economic.
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The German states united after they fought together in the 1870/71 Franco Prussian war vs France....
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Nahhh, if you check history. The troubles we're in now are a piece of cake. Look at World War One & Two, The great Plague, Various Famines, French Revolution, The Civil War. Attila The Hun. I think it was the 1700's when a single volcano erupted and the ash cooled the earth so much that it snowed in July in the USA..\n  My advice. Live a good life and don't worry about it.
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try this site\n\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/history-america-1910s-government-and-politics/01.html
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In the Great Depression, society was in chaos. The global economy had collapsed due to several factors. Countries had trade barriers called tariffs, that taxed international trade and limited production and employment. As well,  workers were not paid enough to purchase the goods made in the factories. Farm incomes were down as food production increased after World War I, so farmers lost money. Then along came Black MOnday, October 28, 1929 where the value of the Dow Jones on Wall Street plummeted bankrupting thousands of people and throwing the economy into further chaos. In those days, people could borrow money to buy on margin at low low percentages. People would borrow a lot of money to play the stock market because they assumed the stock would keep rising. When Black Monday hit, those people were wiped out financially. Overnight.\n\nThen, in the early 1930's a new phenomenom took place - drought on the Great Plains. Farm land turned to dust and blew off. Grasshoppers flourished in the heat, eating crops that did grow. People packed up from Oklahoma and other plains states and moved to somewhere else - anywhere where there was a hint of opportunity. California actually had roadblocks turning people away at the state line!\n\nYounger people were hardest hit. Marriage rates and birth rates declined as young people held off getting married and having children. Young men left home in their teens - some as young as 14 or 15 - and led the hobo life, knocking on doors seeking work for a meal or a place to lay their head. Cars and trucks had their front ends removed and hitched up to horses. Bikes were known as Hoovermobiles, after Herbert Hoover, the president of the day.\n\nFor children, life was hard. At times in many families the mother and father went hungry so the children would not go without. My mother remembers when times got hard at the end of the month having the last of the bacon for dinner one night, then having bacon lard sandwiches for lunch the next day. Leftover oatmeal was often a snack after school!\n\nThese conditions lasted for over five years. Things slowly improved, but not to the level of pre=1929. That didn't happen until world war II brought almost full employment and factories sprang up to make the machiens and products required by the war effort.\n\nI hope this helps put it into better perspective for you.
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Nice answer...but the question says 1800s and your answer says 1900s?
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President Ulysses S. Grant declared it a legal holiday in 1870
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As President Grant said in his memoirs, the South stopped working for compromise when they could no longer command political dominance of the country. Back in the early 1980's, the Commerce Department put out a series of books on the economic history of the United States, which brought up many aspects of early US history that are now forgotten.\n\nAfter the revolution, when the country was a bankrupted swath of states along the Atlantic Ocean, there seemed no way the country could survive economically. Then, the industrialization of the American Northeast was financed in large part by hard currency achieved through the export of cotton and tobacco. These were the only resources the US had in large quantities that had a monopoly throughout the world, and this was of course produced exclusively in the South. The grains produced in the Northeast and later in the Midwest were largely barred from European markets because of the British Corn Laws and other agricultural protective measures across the world.\n\nYou must remember, this was before the advent of sectionalism, and many across the country gave their political loyalty to the Whig Party, which represented Business both large and small. As a result, the South would reap huge profits on cotton (which thus became an industry only for those rich and powerful enough to hold large amounts of land and large numbers of slaves) and then invest those profits in the North to build industry. This also gave the South a certain amount of extra influence in how things were done across the country.\n\nAs the North began to also grow rich because of its expanding industrial base, leaders in the North began to also throw their political and economic weight around. In the 1830's, Northern and Midwestern sections brought about a very protective tariff against foreign manufactured goods and European luxuries (hence the name Sectionalism).\n\nAs we have seen all throughout our history, when a domestic industry is protected by increasing the price of foreign competition, rather than using the protection to increase their market share and long term health, American business will simply increase their prices to maximize their short term profits. This was the case here as well. The leaders in the North, because they needed semi-skilled labor which is not condusive to slavery, started to fund the political movement to abolish slavery which, when gold was discovered in California and people had to travel through Missouri and actually see the way slaves were treated, became an uncontrollably emotional issue. The South found themselves now having to pay higher prices for goods they could not produce themselves, even though they had made those goods possible, and found their peculiar institution which was the basis of their own wealth attacked as being immoral.\n\nThe two sections of the country had found themselves growing farther apart, and the differences were becoming too stark for the Southern leaders to deal with. While they defended African slavery as moral and humanitarian, they lived in mortal fear of becoming slaves themselves. The Whig Party began to unravel, with those in the North going to the Republicans and the South going to the Democrats. With the very idea of slavery being called into question, the South demanded a concession in the Compromise of 1850 that they felt would force the whole country to recognize the institution of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act. This completely backfired on the South, because now to the people in the North, slavery was no longer just some bad thing that was happening far far away that you could pretend was someone else's problem (like Darfur today). The new law now required Northern communities to arrest and hold captive black people in their local jails with their local police for no other reason than because someone in the South said the black person was a runaway slave (there was no hearing, and no evidence allowed other than the statement of
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1861-1865 \nThe civil war was about the state right.
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Visit this site, for all you want to know about 1926 : \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926
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Americans' sense of civic virtue was shocked by the scandals associated with the Reconstruction era, including corrupt state governments, massive fraud in cities controlled by machines, political payoffs to secure government contracts (especially the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal regarding the financing of the transcontinental railroad), and widespread evidence of government corruption during the Ulysses S. Grant administration (see Whiskey Ring). Led by the Bourbon Democrats, especially Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, there was a call for reform, such as Civil Service Reform. More generally there was a sense that government intervention in the economy resulted in favoritism, bribery, kickbacks, inefficiency, waste and corruption. The Bourbon Democrats led the call for a free market, low tariffs, low taxes, less spending and, in general, a Laissez-Faire (hands-off) government. They also denounced imperialism and overseas expansion. Many business and professional people supported this approach, although most Republicans continued to argue for a high protective tariff to encourage rapid growth of industry and protect America's high wages against the low wage system in Europe. Labor activists and agrarians expressed the same spirit but focused their attacks on monopolies and railroads as unfair to the little man.\n\nIn politics the two parties engaged in very elaborate get-out-the vote campaigns that succeeded in pushing turnout to 80%, 90% and even higher. It was financed by the "spoils system" whereby the winning party distributed most local, state and national government jobs, and many government contracts, to its loyal supporters. Large cities were dominated by political machines, in which constituents supported a candidate in exchange for anticipated patronage—favors back from the government, once that candidate was elected—and candidates were selected based on their willingness to play along. Presidential elections between the two major parties (the Republicans and Democrats), were closely contested, and Congress was marked by political stalemate. Mudslinging became an increasingly popular way of gaining advantage at the polls, and Republicans employed an election tactic known as "waving the bloody shirt". Candidates, especially when combating corruption charges, would remind voters that the Republican Party had saved the nation in the Civil War. During the 1870s voters were repeatedly reminded that the Democrats had been responsible for the bloody upheaval, an appeal that attracted many Union veterans to the Republican camp. The Republicans consistently carried the North in presidential elections. The South, on the other hand, became the Solid South, nearly always voting Democratic. The political humiliations of Reconstruction were still fresh in many minds. Conversely, the Democrats invoked images of the "lost cause" and the glorious "stars and bars" in much the same way Republicans "waved the bloody shirt". Overall, Republican and Democratic political platforms remained remarkably constant during the years before 1900. The negativity and ambiguity of politics began a shift in the press to yellow journalism, in which sensationalism and sentimental stories took as prominent a role as factual news.\n\nGreat question.  Thanks...I learned something too.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age gives some great info...  Hope it helps!
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Lincoln won the election, but there was a re-election and some other strange stuff.  for more information visit the following link:\n\nhttp://elections.harpweek.com/1860/Overview-1860-2.htm