January 25 – Anti-Slavery Society forms in New York.
February 25 – The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the U.S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier General George Crook to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.
^Martin Gold, Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History (TheCapitol.Net, 2012), p. 525.
^Erike A. Muse, "Page Act (1875)" in Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (eds. Huping Ling & Allan W. Austin: Taylor & Francis, 2015).
^Lockwood, Jeffrey A. (2004). Locust: the Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier. New York: Basic Books. ISBN0738208949.