1874
Post-Civil War era
1874 is a year in the nineteenth century, between 1873 and 1875.
Like any year, it functions as a noun marking time: The house was built in 1874.
Years also work as modifiers: an 1874 newspaper, the 1874 elections.
Written out, it would be "eighteen seventy-four."
innovation
Mechanical printing keyboard
- EdisonProlific American inventor
- incandescentGlowing from heat
- RemingtonAmerican arms manufacturer
- dynamoMotion-to-electricity converter
context
Post-1865 national reunification period
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
postbellum · Victorian · suffrage · telegraph · Disraeli · steamship · gaslighting · corset
typewriter
Mechanical printing keyboard
- EdisonProlific American inventor
- incandescentGlowing from heat
- RemingtonAmerican arms manufacturer
dynamo · telegraphy · mechanization · refrigeration · QWERTY
Reconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
expansionism · postbellum · Victorian · suffrage · telegraph · Disraeli · steamship · gaslighting · corset
Impressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
- RenoirFrench Impressionist master
- DegasFrench Impressionist's surname
Verdi · Brahms · Tchaikovsky
- Spanish HistoryReconquista, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Empire, conquistadors, Catholic Monarchs