Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become first professional baseball team

Rutgers beats Princeton in first intercollegiate football game

1870 Elevated railroad begins operation in New York City

1872 William "Boss" Tweed convicted of defrauding New York City:

1873 Comstock Law enacted: federal government outlaws "pornographic" material (including birth control information) from the U.S. mails

1874 Women's Christian Temperance Union founded:: delegates from 17 states gather to organize prohibition movement

1875 Dwight Moody begins urban evangelical revivals: preaching the Gospel in the cities of the East

1876 Central Park completed in New York City: Frederick Law Olmstead completes the country's most famous city park

Johns Hopkins University opens nation's first graduate school

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: Congress bans the immigration of Chinese laborers

1883 Brooklyn Bridge opens: 14 years in the making, the world's longest suspension bridge opens

1885 Home Life Insurance building, world’s first skyscraper built in Chicago: demonstrates possibilities of steel frame construction

The Cuban Giants organized: first all-black professional baseball team

1888 Nation's first electric trolley line begins operation in Richmond, Virginia

1889 Hull House opens in Chicago: Jane Addams promotes the Social settlement movement

1892 Ellis Island opens as a receiving station for immigrants

1894 Immigration Restriction League organized

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson lays down doctrine legitimizing segregation

1897 Boston opens nation’s first subway station

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