Timeline

1880–1900 ∼ Massive Shifts in Populations

Increase in poor immigrants and migrant farmers into cities / Increase in tenement housing in cities / Great plains dugout and sod houses constructed / Prevalence of two- and three-story American Queen Anne frame houses / Construction of high-rise residential buildings / Completion of the Biltmore House (1895) / Indoor bathrooms prevalent in urban homes of wealthy

MILESTONES: Chinese Exclusion Act restricts immigrant workers (1882 and 1884) • Eight-hour work day inaugurated in Chicago (1886) • Capture of Geronimo ends formal warfare between whites and Native Americans (1886) • Coca Cola created (1886) • Financial crisis of 1893–1896 • Hawaiian Islands (1898) and Samoan Islands (1899) are annexed

1900–1919 ∼ The Development of Urban Society

Spread of the railroad system across the country / Proliferation of crowded unsanitary tenements / Poor city services in tenement neighborhoods / Frank Lloyd Wright designs ‘Prairie’ houses / Rise in ‘Bungalow’ houses in California / Proliferation...