TIMELINE 1832-1907
1833 US Mint built.
1834 Alms house built at Blockley. Merchant's Exchange built on Walnut.
1836 Philadelphia Bank built.
1837 Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society est.
1835 Worker strike to get 10hr day.
1836 Philadelphia's Central High School is built.
1837 Edgar Allan Poe enters Philadelphia.
1839 St. Patrick's built.
1840 Large foundries and factories start est. With the Irish famine large masses of rural Irish immigrants flood the city. Anti
Irish Catholic and anti Black (pro slavery) bias erupts for the 1840's. The Industrial Revolution begins as poverty escalates.
1843 Large riot against Irish Catholics occurs.
1844 Another large riot against Irish Catholics occurs.
1847
Philadelphia College of Medicine is est along with the American Medical Association.
1849 Cholera hits the city.
1850 Gangs start to show their faces.
1851
St. Joseph's College est.
1852
Smallpox hits.
1853 Several Streets change names High St to Market St, Mulberry to Arch, Sassatime to Race, Cedar to South. St. Peter's School est.
1855 Sanford Opera House est. Know Nothing Party est.
1861 Civil War begins.
1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Emancipation Proclamation. LaSalle College est.
1865
Abe Lincoln killed.
1866 Civil War ends.
1870 Synagogue of Congregation Rodeph Shalom built.
1873 Masonic Temple est.
1875 James Frederic Wood becomes first Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia.
1876 Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts built.
1877 Museum of Art est.
1882 Pennsylvania Railroad Depot built.
1883 Phillies baseball team est.
1900 Large Italian immigrant increase.
1904 Bellevue-Stratford skyscraper built.
1905 Large Russian immigrant flood.
Philadelphia after the American Revolution and 1812 War had many new members of society. German, Irish, Russians, and Italians would call Philadelphia home.
The Civil War was prefaced by the Underground Railroad and anti as well as pro slavery members. Anti foreigner sentiments by the Know Nothing Party lead to many deaths. Eventually the city settled into its new make up and following the war was ready to face the twentieth century.
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