The Supreme Court Rules in Reynolds v. United States making it a Crime to Practice Polygamy
Reynolds v. United States (1878) was a test case put forward by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) in an attempt …
1870s
The Posse Comitatus Act of the U.S. is Signed into Law by Rutherford B. Hayes
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act …
The Execution of the Molly Maguire’s Begins
It was the largest mass execution of any group by the US federal government in history. Between 1877 and 1879 20 Irishmen known as the …
The Compromise of 1877: Rutherford B Hayes Becomes President After Lopsided Loss due to Governors not Conceding, Electoral Commission Partisan 8-7 Vote
On the evening of election day, November 7, 1876, the infamous civil war General, Daniel Sickles, circled by the Republican National Headquarters in DC after attending the theater, …
James Garfield Stated at America’s 100th Anniversary: “the People are Responsible for the Character of their Congress. “If that Body be… Corrupt, it is Because the People Tolerate …Corruption.”
As a congressman, James Garfield had stated at the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1876: “Now more than ever before, the …
The Battle of Little Bighorn: The Myth of Custer’s Last Stand
This battle was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which …
Alexander Graham Bell, who Stole the Invention from Antonio Meucci, Patents the Telephone
(Wikipedia) By 1874, Bell’s initial work on the harmonic telegraph had entered a formative stage, with progress made both at his new Boston “laboratory” (a …
The Theosophical Society was Officially Formed in NYC by Helena Blavatsky and others as ‘an Unsectarian Body of Seekers after Truth’
On the southern edge of Madras, India’s fourth largest city, nestled between the sea and one of the city’s busiest boulevards, is a sprawling, well-wooded …
Violent Democrats Murdered Two Dozen Republicans in Coushatta Massacre
This day of 1874, two dozen politically-active Republicans were murdered by the White League, a terrorist organization affiliated with the Democratic Party. Some victims were …
Susan B. Anthony cast her Vote on Election Day — Illegally
The tactics of the suffragists went beyond petitions and memorials to Congress. Testing another strategy, Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election …