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1873 San Francisco began to construct cable car lines
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The Eads Bridge opened in 1874
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In the mid 1800's new immigrants began arriving from Eastern and Southern Europe
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1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act
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1884 William Le Baron Jenny put up a 10 story office building in Chicago
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1888 Virginia pioneered the use of trolley cars
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1897 Congress passed a bill for immigrants to read and write in some language
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1897 Boston opened the nations first subway
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1900's large numbers of babies died from bad conditions. New York began to take action with settlement house- place in large cities where people get assistance with social problems and challenges related to urban life.
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1904 New York opened the first selection of what was to become the largest subway system in the world
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1910 half Americans lied in an urban area- a thickly populated city or town
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1914 African Americans moved to cites to find jobs