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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.
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

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: On the timeline above, what tipping points can you identify when Americans began to propose political solutions for urban industrial problems? What issues did they emphasize?