CHRONOLOGY

1869

  • Knights of Labor founded.

  • Cincinnati mounts first paid baseball team.

    • 1871

  • Boss Tweed’s rule in New York City ends.

  • Chicago’s Great Fire breaks out.

    • 1873

  • Panic on Wall Street touches off depression.

    • 1877

  • Great Railroad Strike paralyzes nation.

    • 1880s

  • Immigration from southern and eastern Europe rises.

    • 1882

  • Chinese Exclusion Act enacted.

    • 1883

  • Brooklyn Bridge opens.

    • 1886

  • American Federation of Labor founded.

  • Haymarket bombing occurs in Chicago.

    • 1890

  • Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives.

    • 1890s

  • African American migration from the South begins.

    • 1892

  • Ellis Island opens.

    • 1893

  • World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.

  • Panic on Wall Street touches off major economic depression.

    • 1895

  • Boston Public Library opens in Copley Square.

    • 1896

  • President Grover Cleveland vetoes immigrant literacy test.

    • 1897

  • Steeplechase Park opens on Coney Island.

  • Nation’s first subway system opens in Boston.