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November 25 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash ...
1876 elections in the United States by state (43 C) 1876 in American sports by state (8 C) A. 1876 in Alabama (2 C) 1876 in Arizona Territory (2 C) 1876 in Arkansas ...
Ulysses S. Grant, the incumbent president in 1876, whose second term expired on March 4, 1877. It was widely assumed during the year 1875 that incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant would run for a third term as president despite the poor economic conditions, the numerous political scandals that had developed since he assumed office in 1869, and despite a longstanding tradition set by George ...
1876 in the United States by state or territory (47 C) / 1876 disestablishments in the United States (14 C, 4 P) 1876 establishments in the United States (48 C, 16 P) B.
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As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
2 Maps of United States territories. 3 History. Toggle History subsection. ... The Great Sioux War of 1876 was conducted by the Lakota under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.