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US History in 1875
- The Civil Rights Act, giving equal rights to blacks in jury duty and accommodation, was passed by the United States Congress. It would be overturned in 1883 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. It would become the first leg of today's Triple Crown Series. The horse Aristides was the first winner.
- Reporting on the Indian Wars, inspector E.C. Watkins pronounced that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne under Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were openly hostile against the United States government, forming U.S. policy over the next year that would lead to battles such as Little Big Horn.
- New York City politician Boss Tweed escaped from prison and migrated to Cuba, then Spain. He would be captured and returned to New York authorities on November 23, 1876.
Wisconsin History around 1875
- People in Wisconsin were virtually all white (less than one-tenth of 1 percent was African-American) and men outnumbered women by a slight margin, 52 percent to 48 percent.
- The population in Wisconsin was about a quarter Catholic, about a quarter Methodist, and the rest belonged to smaller Protestant sects.
- Languages spoken in Wisconsin homes included Ho-Chunk, French, German, Menominee, Dutch, Norwegian, Oneida, Swedish, Danish, Polish, and Potawatomie, and all varieties of English accents were heard on the street, from Irish brogue to Southern drawl.
- Farming, mining and lumbering were the major Wisconsin industries of the period.
- During the Civil war, disaster struck farming when chinch bugs began devouring Wisconsin wheat. This led to dairy products becoming the leading farm product in the state.
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