1870s
Reconstruction era decade
The 1870s refers to the decade spanning 1870 to 1879.
Like other decade terms, it functions as both noun and adjective: the 1870s were a period of rapid industrialization, 1870s fashion.
The plural form with -s is standard for decades, distinguishing the ten-year span from a single year.
Ranch hands tending herds
- outlawsFugitives from justice
- sheriffCounty's chief officer
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- gold rushMass migration seeking ore
pioneers · stagecoach · homestead · prospectors · cattle drive · wagon train · desperado · buffalo hunters
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Rutherford B. HayesPost-Reconstruction era leader
- Franco-Prussian War1870-71 European conflict
- German unificationMerging of Germanic states
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
Ulysses S. Grant · British Empire · Suez Canal · carpetbagger · scalawag · Jim Crow · Fifteenth Amendment · Ku Klux Klan
Rail line spanning continent
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
telegraph · locomotive · Gilded Age · robber barons · Carnegie · Rockefeller · Standard Oil · land grant
Boned waist-shaping undergarment
- bustleEnergetic noisy activity
- crinolineStructural petticoat for volume
- top hatTall formal headwear
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
etiquette · gentility · Queen Victoria · Charles Dickens · penny dreadful · séance · spiritualism · suffrage
Prolific American inventor
- Alexander Graham BellTelephone's Scottish-born creator
- telephoneVoice communication device
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- Menlo ParkNew Jersey invention site
telegraph · typewriter · electric light · dynamo · Westinghouse · Levi Strauss · blue jeans · sewing machine
cowboys
Ranch hands tending herds
- outlawsFugitives from justice
- sheriffCounty's chief officer
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
gold rush · pioneers · stagecoach · homestead · prospectors · cattle drive · wagon train · desperado · buffalo hunters · ranch
Reconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Rutherford B. HayesPost-Reconstruction era leader
- Franco-Prussian War1870-71 European conflict
- German unificationMerging of Germanic states
Ulysses S. Grant · Bismarck · British Empire · Suez Canal · carpetbagger · scalawag · Jim Crow · Fifteenth Amendment · Ku Klux Klan · Tammany Hall
transcontinental railroad
Rail line spanning continent
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
immigration · telegraph · locomotive · Gilded Age · robber barons · Carnegie · Rockefeller · Standard Oil · land grant · boomtown
corset
Boned waist-shaping undergarment
gaslight · etiquette · gentility · Queen Victoria · Charles Dickens · penny dreadful · séance · spiritualism · suffrage · temperance
Thomas Edison
Prolific American inventor
- Alexander Graham BellTelephone's Scottish-born creator
- telephoneVoice communication device
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
Menlo Park · telegraph · typewriter · electric light · dynamo · Westinghouse · Levi Strauss · blue jeans · sewing machine · patent
Monet
French Impressionist surname
- RenoirFrench Impressionist master
- DegasFrench Impressionist's surname
- CézanneFrench Post-Impressionist painter
Manet · plein-air · brushwork · light · color · Paris · Giverny · ballet · haystacks · water lilies
1870s2020s
Third decade, 21st century
21st century · modern era · contemporary times · distant future · 2010s
1870santebellum era
Time before the Civil War
antebellum · 1850s · Old South · plantation era · colonial period
1870sdigital age
Epoch of computerized life
information age · atomic age · smartphone era · space age · 2020s