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Chp. 18: The Age of the City
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Mount Holyoke College founded
1836
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first founded as seminary for women
Modern Baseball founded
1840
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created by Abner Doubleday (many rules created by Alexander Cartwright) 1st team Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869
1st urban tenement building in NYC
1850
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"tenement" had originally referred to multiple-family rental building, but by late 19th cent. being used to describe slum dwellings only
Central Park opened
1859
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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.
Vassar College founded
1865
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1st intercollegiate football game
1869
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Princeton v. Rutgers
NYC opens elevated railroads
1870
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Wellesly College founded
1870
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Great Fires
1871
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destroy much of Chicago and Boston
Smith College founded
1871
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Montgomery Ward distributes 1st catalog
1872
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distributed catalog of consumer goods in association w/ farmers organization, the Grange
Tammany's Boss Tweed convicted of corruption
1872
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corrupt city boss William M. Tweed, boss of NYC Tammany Hall
Johns Hopkins Univ. creates 1st modern grad school
1876
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National League founded
1876
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baseball, founded by Albert Spalding
1st F.W. Woolworth store opens in Utica, NY
1879
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"Five an Ten Cent Store" , went on to build natl. chain of dry goods stores
Carlisle Indian Industrial School founded
1879
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founded in PA
Salvation Army begins operations in America
1879
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founded in London in 1878. concentrated more on religious revivalism than on relief of homeless and hungry
Congress restricts Chinese immigration
1882
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even though Chinese only made up 1.2% of pop. of West Coast
Brooklyn Bridge open
1883
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designed by John A. Roebling
1st skyscraper built in Chicago
1884
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1st building to use steel-girder technique
The Rise of Silas Lapham
1884
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published by WIlliam Dean Howells
American Protective Association founded
1887
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created by Henry Bowers (hated Catholics and foreigners). group committed to stopping immigrant tide. by 1894 membership reached 500,000
Sears Roebuck begins business in Chicago
1887
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established by Richard Sears in Chicago
How the Other Half Lives
1890
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published by Jacob Riis, photographed slum life, living in tenements
Basketball invented
1891
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invented by James Naismith
Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1893
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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
Immigration Restriction League founded
1894
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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
1st Coney Island amusement park opens
1895
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1st subway in America
1895
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in Boston
The Red Badge of Courage
1895
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published by Stephen Crane
The Awakening
1899
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published by Kate Choplin
Sister Carrie
1900
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published by Theodore Dreiser
American League founded
1901
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baseball
Red Sox win 1st World Series
1903
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beat Pittsburgh Pirates
The Ambassadors
1903
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published by Henry James
SF Earthquake
1906
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The Jungle
1906
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published by Upton Sinclair
NCAA founded
1910
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founded to regulate college football in effort to make it safer and more honest
Armory Show in NY
1913
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staged by artists from Ashcan School
The Birth of a Nation
1915
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D.W. Griffith, moving picture, created Intolerance (1916), Birth of a Nation celebrated KKK