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July 15, 1870 - The last former state of the Confederacy, Georgia, is readmitted into the Union, and the Confederated States of America is officially dissolved. November 1, 1870 - The National Weather Service, known as the Weather Bureau, makes its first official meteorological forecast.
The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879. The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as new empires, imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia.
1870 in U.S. states. States. Alabama. Arkansas. California. Connecticut. Delaware. Florida. Georgia. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri. Nebraska. Nevada. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New York. North Carolina. Ohio. Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island.
Conflicting Loyalties. Americans were still more alike than different. The majority of them still lived on farms (53 percent in 1870). Most of them spoke English as their first (and only) language, worshiped in Protestant churches, and revered the precepts passed down to them by their forebears of the Revolutionary War generation.
Cities could be very unpleasant places to live. Plumbing was primitive; transportation was nonmotorized before about 1880, when the largest cities began installing in-city trains and trolleys; and electricity was scarcely available before 1890.
Source: Library of Congress. In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded, and many new ones emerged, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power.
The United States began as a largely rural nation, with most people living on farms or in small towns and villages. While the rural population continued to grow in the late 1800s, the urban population was growing much more rapidly. Still, a majority of Americans lived in rural areas in 1900.