| 1869 | - Knights of Labor founded.
- Cincinnati mounts first paid baseball team.
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| 1871 | - Boss Tweed’s rule in New York ends.
- Chicago’s Great Fire.
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| 1873 | - Panic on Wall Street touches off depression.
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| 1877 | |
| 1880s | - Immigration from southern and eastern Europe rises.
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| 1883 | |
| 1886 | - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded.
- Haymarket bombing.
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| 1890s | - African American migration from the South begins.
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| 1890 | - Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives.
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| 1892 | |
| 1893 | - World’s Columbian Exposition.
- Panic on Wall Street touches off major economic depression.
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| 1895 | - Boston Public Library opens in Copley Square.
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| 1896 | - President Grover Cleveland vetoes immigrant literacy test.
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| 1897 | - Steeplechase Park opens on Coney Island.
- Nation’s first subway system opens in Boston.
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