TIMELINE

1866
  • New York City contains cholera epidemic

1869
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.

1871
  • First elevated railroad begins operation in New York

1878
  • Yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee

1883
  • Metropolitan Opera opens in New York

1885
  • First skyscraper completed in Chicago

1887
  • First electric trolley system built in Richmond, Virginia

1889
  • Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House in Chicago

1890
  • Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives

1892
  • New York’s Ellis Island opens

1893
  • Ragtime introduced to national audiences at Chicago World’s Fair

1897
  • First subway line opened in Boston

1899
  • Central Labor Union protests in Cleveland

  • National Consumers’ League founded

1901
  • New York passes Tenement House Law

  • “City Beautiful” plan developed for Washington, D.C.

1903
  • Women’s Trade Union League founded

1904
  • Subway running the length of Manhattan completed

1906
  • Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published

  • Food and Drug Administration established

  • Atlanta race riot

1910
  • Mann Act prohibits transportation of prostitutes across state lines

1911
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York

1913
  • Fifty-five-story Woolworth Building completed in New York