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Draft Riots
Draft Riots forced cities to pay more attetntion to poor residents' living conditions. -
Tenement House Act
The tenement house act required landlords to build fire escapes, ventilate bedrooms and follow minimum standards for outhouse and trash disposal. -
NYC Appointed Board of Health
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Cable Cars
Andrew Smith Hallidie patented the first cable car in San Francisco. Horse drawn buggies were soon abandoned for this faster, cleaner, cheaper mode of transportation. -
First automatic fire sprinkler system
Made it safer to work in factories and buildings. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ban on all Chinese immigration for 10 years, passed because people on the west coast were afraid of Chinese immigrants taking jobs -
Pendleton Civil Service Act
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Stanton Coit founded Neighborhood Guild
first US Settlement house; in NYC -
Jacob Riis presented his first illustrated lecture, titled “The Other Half: How It Lives and Dies in New York”, to his photography club
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Jane Addams and Ellen Starr founded Hull-House
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More settlement houses were being formed to help immigrants better their education
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Louis Sullivan designed 10 story Wainwright Building.
This was one of the first skyscrapers ever built. -
Ellis Island
Ellis Island officially opened in New York Harbor. The first person to be processed at the new immigration station was Annie Moore, a 17 year old Irish immigrant. In general, Ellis Island was open to European Immigrants. -
The Royal Poinciana Hotel
The Royal Poinciana Hotel opened in southeast Florida and a path of tourism is paved for that area. Many people moved to the cities around this hotel. -
Hawaii Annexed
Hawaii was officially made into a territory of the US and there was so many Japanese immigrants in the territory (brought in to farm). Since Hawaii was then part of the US, many Japanese migrated to the west coast. -
National Reclamation Act
A law passed by the US that said arid land would now start to be farmed. It said to ¨reclaim¨ land to farm it, and it required settlers to repay the cost of irrigating the dry land with crops. The act attracted many immigrants from Mexico. -
Immigrants are Jailed More than "Natives"
More immigrants than "natives" of ages 18 and 19 were put in jail for more serious crimes in 1904 in the US. As time goes on, the punishment gap extends to people older and older as well. -
Gentlemen's Agreement
Board of Education is for School Segregation of Asian ChildrenAn agreement between Japan and America that limited the number of unskilled workers to come into the country in exchange for a lift on San Francisco's segregation order. -
Water Chlorination
Water chlorination allowed efficient cleaning water which gave urban citizens clean drinking water. Chicago and Jersey City were the first places where this was implimented. -
Angel Island
Angel Island was officially opened in San Francisco Bay. This immigration station was open to immigrating Asians, especially Chinese. Many immigrants were interrogated to check the authenticity of their papers. -
4/10 New York City residents were born in another country
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The Great Migration
In the Great Migration, southern blacks moved north to cities in search of work, which led to rise of African American communities in the north. -
The population of 18 major US cities were half immigrant
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
[A Survivor's Account on the Fire's Events](http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/primary/survivorInterviews/DoraMaisler.html) 146 employees died in a factory fire due to the building not having safety and anti-fire equiptment, such as sprinklers and usable fire escapes. This tragedy made it mandatory for building to have safety measures that protect its workers. -
Literacy tests started to be introduced in the screening process for immigrants.
It made the process slower and more select.
