The 15th Amendment granted Black men the right to vote under the law, but exercising that right became another challenge.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Standard Oil Company was incorporated in Ohio in 1870, but the company’s origins date to 1863, when John D. Rockefeller joined Maurice B.
J.P. Morgan & Co. was a commercial and investment banking institution founded by J. P. Morgan in 1871. The company was a predecessor of three of the largest banking institutions in the world — JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank (via Morgan, Grenfell & Co.) — and was involved in the formation of Drexel Burnham Lambert. The company is sometimes referred to as the “House of Morgan” or simply “Morgan“.
Andrew Carnegie built his first steel mill, Edgar Thomson Steel Works, in the mid-1870s in Braddock, Pennsylvania, which is just outside Pittsburgh.
The origins of ice hockey have long been debated. In 2008, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) officially declared that the first game of organized ice hockey was played in Montreal in 1875. Many also consider ice hockey’s first rules to have been published by the Montreal Gazette in 1877.
As the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War.
Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, known as “Charles”, was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family. He is remembered for The Rothschild List, a list he made in 1915 of 284 sites across Britain that he considered suitable for nature reserves.
Paris laid claim to the world’s first electric streetlights. Its arc lamps, also known as Yablochkov candles, were installed in 1878. Three years later, 4,000 of these electric lamps were in use, effectively replacing gas lanterns mounted on poles.
A thin filament with high electrical resistance would make a lamp practical because it would require only a little current to make it glow. He demonstrated his light bulb in December 1879.