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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
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

Question

KEY TURNING POINT: Some historians have argued that the 1890s was a crucial turning point in American culture — a decade when “modernity arrived.” Based on events in this chapter, do you agree?