CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1848 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science started |
| 1858 |
New York’s Central Park opened |
| 1859 |
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species |
| 1861 |
Yale University awarded its first Ph.D. |
| 1862 |
Morrill Act |
| 1865 |
Vassar College started |
| 1869 |
First college football game |
| 1873 |
Cable cars first used in San Francisco |
| 1876 |
Johns Hopkins University founded |
| 1876 |
American Chemical Society established |
| 1876 |
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| 1876 |
Baseball’s National League started |
| 1879 |
Henry George’s Progress and Poverty |
| 1882 |
Chinese Exclusion Act |
| 1883 |
Lester Frank Ward’s Dynamic Sociology |
| 1884 |
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| 1885 |
American Economics Association formed |
| 1886 |
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. |
| 1888 |
National Statistical Association begun |
| 1889 |
First electric elevator installed |
| 1890 |
Second Morrill Act |
| 1891 |
James Naismith invented basketball |
| 1892 |
Ellis Island opened |
| 1894 |
Henry Demerest Lloyd’s Wealth against Commonwealth |
| 1895 |
Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage |
| 1899 |
Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| 1901 |
Baseball’s American League formed |
| 1907 |
Walter Rauschenbusch’s Christianity and the Social Crisis |
| 1910 |
National College Athletic Association (NCAA) formed |
