Major Events
- March 4, 1869: Ulysses Grant became President of the United States
- May 10, 1869: golden spike marked the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in Promontory, Utah
- December 10, 1869: Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote, one of the first such laws in the world
- February 12, 1870: Utah Territory gave women the right to vote
- February 25, 1870: Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress
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