Milestones

1858

English launch transatlantic liner Great Eastern-

1887

Nativists found American Protective Association

1870

Metropolitan Museum of Art and American

1888

Richmond, Virginia, opens first urban electric

Museum of Natural History open in

Streetcar system

New York City

1889

Jane Addams founds Hull House

1876

Eight teams form National Baseball League

Yale’s Walter Camp names first All-American

1880

American branch of Salvation Army is founded

Football team

1880s

New immigration begins

1890s

Louis Sullivan’s skyscrapers rise

1882

John L. Sullivan wins heavyweight boxing

1890

Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives

Championship

1896

Charles M. Sheldon asks “What would Jesus do?”

Exclusion Act bans Chinese immigrants

In best-selling In His Steps

1883

Roebling completes Brooklyn Bridge

1897

Cleveland vetoes Congress’s literacy test bill

1885

Foran Act outlaws importing contract skilled labor