Timeline and Terms

Events

2,812,191 immigrants arrived
248,120 immigrants entered US
3,687,564 entered US
5,246,613 immigrants entered US
American Protective Association formed
Anti-Chinese bill vetoed
Assassination of William McKinley
Bureau of Immigration founded
Chinese Exclusion Act
Desert Land Act
Ellis Island opened
Foran Act
Great Railway Strike of 1877
Haymarket Square Riot
Henderson v. Mayor of New York
Homestead Steel Strike
How the Other Half Lives published
Hull House opened
Immigrants at 14.7 percent of population
Literacy test bill
National Origins Act of 1924
Oklahoma land run
Rock Springs Massacre
Seattle Anti-Chinese Riot
Tacoma Anti-Chinese Riot
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Yick Wo v. Hopkins

People

Chester A. Arthur
Crazy Horse
Grover Cleveland
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
Leon Czolgosz
Mamie Tape
Rutherford B. Hayes
Sitting Bull
Theodore Roosevelt
Willa Cather
William McKinley

Places

Angel Island
Ellis Island

Organizations

American Protective Association
anarchists
Birds of Passage
Hull House
Immigration Restriction League
new immigrants
old immigrants
Pinkerton Agency
Union Pacific Railroad