New York City contains cholera epidemic

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

First elevated railroad begins operation in New York

Yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee

Metropolitan Opera opens in New York

First skyscraper completed in Chicago

First electric trolley system built in Richmond, Virginia

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr found Hull House in Chicago

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives

New York’s Ellis Island opens

Ragtime introduced to national audiences at Chicago World’s Fair

First subway line opened in Boston

Central Labor Union protests in Cleveland

National Consumers’ League founded

New York passes Tenement House Law

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

Women’s Trade Union League founded

Subway running the length of Manhattan completed

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle published

Food and Drug Administration established

Atlanta race riot

Mann Act prohibits transportation of prostitutes across state lines

Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York

Fifty-five-story Woolworth Building completed in New York