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U.S. territorial extent in 1860. April 3, 1860 – Pony Express begins. November 6 – 1860 United States presidential election: Abraham Lincoln elected president and Hannibal Hamlin vice president with only 39% of the vote in a four-man race. December 18 – Crittenden Compromise fails. December 20 – President Buchanan fires his cabinet.
The Commonwealth of Virginia becomes the 8th Confederate State readmitted to the Union on January 26, 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , February 3, 1870 The State of Mississippi becomes the 9th Confederate State readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870
1870 1871 Al-Hasa Expedition [14] [15] Ottoman Empire. Kuwait. Nejd: 1870 1870 Adai rebellion Russian Empire: Aday 1870 1871 Franco-Prussian War: North German Confederation Kingdom of Bavaria Baden Kingdom of Württemberg Second French Empire: 1870 1872 Revolution of the Lances: Blancos: Colorados: 1870 1900 Sheep Wars: Cattle Ranchers Sheepmen ...
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: 1877–1896 (1919) online complete; old, factual and heavily political, by winner of Pulitzer Prize; Shannon, Fred A. The farmer's last frontier: agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) complete text online; Smythe, Ted Curtis; The Gilded Age Press, 1865–1900 Praeger. 2003.
The number of people living on farms grew from about 10 million in 1860 to 22 million in 1880 to 31 million in 1905. The value of farms soared from $8.0 billion in 1860 to $30 billion in 1906. [124] The federal government issued 160-acre (65 ha) tracts virtually free to settlers under the Homestead Act of 1862. Even larger numbers purchased ...
1870: Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches, a collection of stories based on his years as a San Francisco journalist, is published. [133] William "Hurricane Bill" Martin, a notorious outlaw in Kansas, begins rustling cattle southeast of Abilene before he and his gang are driven off by a posse from Marion. [134]
1860 (United States) New England Shoemakers Strike of 1860. 800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1863 (United States) The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. [6]
May 31 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1841 to 1860 (born 1784) June 6 – Henry P. Haun, U.S. Senator from California from 1859 to 1860 (born 1815) July 1 – Charles Goodyear, inventor (born 1800) September 12 – William Walker, filibuster, briefly President of Nicaragua, executed (born 1824)