North America and Caribbean
- Canada
- Monarch - Victoria, Queen of Canada (1837–1901)
- Governor General - Lord Lisgar, Governor-General of Canada (1869–1872)
- Prime Minister - John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1891)
- Costa Rica - Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez, President of Costa Rica (1870–1876)
- Haiti - Nissage Saget, President of Haiti (1869-1874)
- Mexico - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (1867–1872)
- United States - Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States (1869–1877)
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“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There’s very little difference between a dead Swede and a young man who’s had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)
“To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
“But now Miss America, World’s champion woman, you take your promenading self down into the cobalt blue waters of the Caribbean and see what happens. You meet a lot of darkish men who make vociferous love to you, but otherwise pay you no mid.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)