first founded as seminary for women
created by Abner Doubleday (many rules created by Alexander Cartwright) 1st team Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869
"tenement" had originally referred to multiple-family rental building, but by late 19th cent. being used to describe slum dwellings only
The most successful American promoters of this notion of the park as refuge were the landscape designers Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, who teamed up to design Central Park.
Princeton v. Rutgers
destroy much of Chicago and Boston
distributed catalog of consumer goods in association w/ farmers organization, the Grange
corrupt city boss William M. Tweed, boss of NYC Tammany Hall
baseball, founded by Albert Spalding
"Five an Ten Cent Store" , went on to build natl. chain of dry goods stores
founded in London in 1878. concentrated more on religious revivalism than on relief of homeless and hungry
founded in PA
even though Chinese only made up 1.2% of pop. of West Coast
designed by John A. Roebling
1st building to use steel-girder technique
published by WIlliam Dean Howells
established by Richard Sears in Chicago
created by Henry Bowers (hated Catholics and foreigners). group committed to stopping immigrant tide. by 1894 membership reached 500,000
published by Jacob Riis, photographed slum life, living in tenements
invented by James Naismith
a world's fair constructed to honor the 400th anniversary of Columbus's 1st voyage to America. at center of exposition was cluster of neoclassical buildings - the "Great White City" - one of inspiring events for "city beautiful" movement, led by the "Great White City" architect Daniel Burnham
founded in Boston by 5 Harvard alumni. dedicated to belief that immigrants should be screened through literacy tests and other standards designed to separate the desirable from the undesirable
published by Stephen Crane
in Boston
published by Kate Choplin
published by Theodore Dreiser
baseball
published by Henry James
beat Pittsburgh Pirates
published by Upton Sinclair
founded to regulate college football in effort to make it safer and more honest
staged by artists from Ashcan School
D.W. Griffith, moving picture, created Intolerance (1916), Birth of a Nation celebrated KKK