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Chronological Reasoning for Chapter 19

Question

This chronology lists significant historical events covered in the chapter but not all of them are directly related. To complete this activity, select three to five events and write a creative, paragraph-length story that explains how these events are connected, what happened, and why it matters.

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CHRONOLOGY

1869	Knights of Labor founded. Cincinnati mounts first paid baseball team.
1871	Boss Tweed’s rule in New York ends. Chicago’s Great Fire.
1873	Panic on Wall Street touches off depression.
1877	Great Railroad Strike.
1880s	Immigration from southern and eastern Europe rises.
1882	Chinese Exclusion Act.
1883	Brooklyn Bridge opens.
1886	American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded. Haymarket bombing.
1890s	African American migration from the South begins.
1890	Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives.
1892	Ellis Island opens.
1893	World’s Columbian Exposition. 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.