Interactive Timeline – 1873-1901

correct incorrect Feb Congress passes Coinage Act, establishing gold standard for currency

correct incorrect Mar Comstock Law passed to suppress circulation of literature deemed obscene

correct incorrect Nov Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) founded

correct incorrect Feb Baseball's National League formed, the sport's first "major league"

correct incorrect Dec Clergyman S. Humphreys Gurteen founds nation's first organized charity in Buffalo, NY

correct incorrect Oct Frances Willard elected president of WCTU, leads organization to fight for women's suffrage

correct incorrect New York City becomes first U.S. city to reach a population of one million

correct incorrect Mar Salvation Army arrives in New York City, establishes city missions throughout the United States

correct incorrect Sep President James A. Garfield dies, shot by frustrated office seeker Charles Guiteau

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Assassination of Russian Czar Alexander II sets off pogroms aimed at Jewish settlements and spurs immigration to the United States

correct incorrect May Congress enacts Chinese Exclusion Act

correct incorrect Jan Congress passes Pendleton Civil Service Act

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Social reformer Samuel Barnett establishes the first settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in slums of London's East End

correct incorrect Fall The nation's first skyscraper built in Chicago

correct incorrect Fall Congregational minister Josiah Strong publishes Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

correct incorrect THE WORLD: July Canada restricts Chinese immigration by requiring a $50 head tax

correct incorrect Mar Anti-immigrant American Protective Association founded

correct incorrect Feb Nation's first electric streetcar introduced in Richmond, Virginia

correct incorrect Oct National League All-Stars depart on six-month world tour to introduce baseball and expand U.S. influence

correct incorrect Sept Jane Addams and Ellen Starr open doors of Hull House, nation's first settlement house, in Chicago

correct incorrect Chicago and Philadelphia reach one million population mark

correct incorrect Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

correct incorrect Dec Basketball, invented by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, first played

correct incorrect Nov WCTU holds international conference in Boston with delegates from around the world

correct incorrect July People's (Populist) Party holds first national convention in Omaha, Nebraska

correct incorrect Nov Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican incumbent Benjamin Harrison and Populist James B. Weaver for presidency

correct incorrect May Immigration Restriction League is founded in Boston

correct incorrect Mar Immigration Restriction Bill is vetoed by President Grover Cleveland

correct incorrect Sep First subway in United States opens in Boston

correct incorrect Nov Republican William McKinley defeats Democratic and Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan for presidency

correct incorrect Jan Professional baseball's American League organized

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan Census shows that population of United Kingdom doubled in 50 years to 38 million.

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec Australia curbs Asian immigration by requiring European language literacy test