TIMELINE

1861

  • Vassar College founded for women

1872

  • First national park established at Yellowstone

1873

  • Association for the Advancement of Women founded

  • Comstock Act

1874

  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union founded

1876

  • Baseball’s National League founded

  • Appalachian Mountain Club founded

1879

  • Salvation Army established in the United States

1881

  • Tuskegee Institute founded

1885

  • Mississippi State College for Women founded

1890

  • National American Woman Suffrage Association founded

  • Daughters of the American Revolution founded

1892

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivers “solitude of self” speech to Congress

  • John Muir founds Sierra Club

1893

  • Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition

1894

  • United Daughters of the Confederacy founded

1895

  • Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise address

1896

  • National Association of Colored Women founded

  • Charles Sheldon publishes In His Steps

  • Plessy v. Ferguson legalizes “separate but equal” doctrine

1900

  • Lacey Act

1903

  • First World Series

  • First National Wildlife Refuge established

1906

  • Antiquities Act

1913

  • Armory Show of modern art held in New York City

1916

  • National Park Service created