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Major Urbanization Events 1855-1915

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  • John Tyler takes office as the 10th president of the United States

  • NYPD was founded

    NYPD was founded

  • James K. Polk takes office as the 11th president of the United States

  • Zachary Taylor takes office as the 12th president of the United States

  • Millard Fillmore takes office as the 13th president of the United States

  • Cincinnati, Ohio established America's first paid fire station

  • Franklin Pierce takes office as the 14th president of the United States

  • James Buchanan takes office as the 15th president of the United States

  • Abraham Lincoln takes office as the 16th president of the United States

  • Andrew Johnson takes office as the 17th president of the United States

  • Christopher Scholes invents the typewriter

  • Ulysses S. Grant takes office as the 18th president of the United States

  • Chicago Fire

    Chicago Fire

    While burning for 24 hours, the fire killed an estimated 300 citizens, while leaving around 100,000 people homless. It burned more than 3 square miles of the city, and caused $200 million dollars worth of damages.

  • Street cars first introduced in San Francisco

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

  • Rutherford B. Hayes takes office as the 19th president of the United States

  • James A. Garfield takes office as the 20th president of the United States and is assassinated later that year

  • Chester Alen Arthur takes office as the 21st president of the United States

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Grover Cleveland takes office as the 22nd president of the United States

  • Scott Act passed

    Made reentry into the US from China impossible

  • Benjamin Harrison takes office as the 23rd president of the United States

  • Ellis Island was opened

  • Chinese Exclusion Act extended by 10 years

  • Grover Cleveland re-elected and takes office as the 24th president of the United States

  • Electric subways introduced in Boston

  • William McKinley takes office as the 25th president of the United states

  • New York State Tenement House Act

    The Tenement House Act of 1901 outlawed dumbbell tenements.

  • Theodore Roosevelt takes office as the 26th president of the United States

  • Chinese immigration restricted indefinatly

  • San Francisco earthquake

  • Angel Island was opened

  • World War 1 begins

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