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In 1871, U. S. railroad entrepreneur Henry Meiggs signed a contract with the government of Costa Rica to build a railroad connecting the capital city of San José to the port of Limón in the Caribbean.
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In 1871 he commanded the 24th U. S. Infantry, an all African-American regiment with headquarters at Fort McKavett Texas.
* 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U. S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
* 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U. S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
There was still no such recognition in the U. S. This remained the case until June 10, 1871, when a bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City.
* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.
In 1871 the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U. S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the ethnic working class in America.
From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations.
On April 20, 1871, the U. S. Congress launched a 21-member investigation committee on the status of the Southern Reconstruction states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
The Masi treaty die was used until 1871, almost exclusively for treaties, at which point the U. S. government discontinued the use of pendant seals.
Victoria Woodhull, in 1871, called for men to open the U. S. government to women or a new constitution and government would be formed in a year ; and, on a basis of equality, she ran to be elected President in 1872.
In 1871, the U. S. Supreme Court decided Virginia v. West Virginia, upholding the secession of West Virginia, including Berkeley and Jefferson counties, from Virginia.
In 1871, the U. S. Supreme Court decided Virginia v. West Virginia, upholding the secession of West Virginia, including Berkeley and Jefferson counties, from Virginia.
Later in 1871, a new town site was selected, present-day Ava, near the location of the former U. S. Civil War military Post Office, Militia Spring.
The bill, which passed on March 3, 1871, provided that the U. S. government would not be liable for any expenses.
* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, was born on a farm near Hamilton.
The town site was platted by the railroad in May 1871, at a time in which the 1870 U. S. Census had already reported 435 pioneering men, women and children taking up residence on a location named for its beautiful spring cherry blossoms.
This line was opened by U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar during a ceremony at the border in October 1871.
Just as the U. S. emerged as one of the world's leading industrial, military and political powers after the Civil War, so would Germany, following its own unification in 1871.
When the legal tender decision was reversed after the appointment of new Justices, in 1871 and 1872 ( Legal Tender Cases, 79 U. S. 457 ), Chase prepared a very able dissenting opinion.
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By 1871 L. C. Orvis, manager of the `` Western Union Telegraph Company '', expressed willingness to send emergency telegrams on Sundays from his Village drugstore.
The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.
Long disputed, the predominantly German-speaking region of Alsace or Elsaß was annexed by Germany in 1871 ; after World War I, it was reintegrated into France.
He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.
Late in his life, Babbage sought ways to build a simplified version of the machine, and assembled a small part of it before his death in 1871.
The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.
* 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration.
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