1869 Professional baseball and collegiate football

1872 Boss Tweed convicted: Tweed defrauded New York City of millions of dollars

1873 Comstock Law enacted: federal government outlaws "pornographic" material from the U.S. mails

1874 Prohibition movement: delegates from 17 states gather to form the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

1875 Urban revivalism: Dwight Moody begins preaching the Gospel in the cities of the East

1876 Central Park completed: by Frederick Law Olmstead

1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

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

1888 Nation’s first electric trolley line: in Richmond, Virginia

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

1892 Ellis Island: new receiving station for immigrants opens in New York harbor

1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: a world’s fair in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson: the Supreme Court sanctions racial segregation

1897 Nation’s first subway system: opens in Boston