Gilded Age Timeline Project
Category: Other
Updated: 28 Apr 2022
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Created byJason Johnson
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First major Granger Law passedHaymarket Square riotPresident James Garfield AssassinatedJohn Rockefeller started Standard OilCornelius Vanderbilt started his own steamboatChinese Exclusion ActMark Twain publishes The Gilded AgeCyrus McCormick - mechanical harvesterAlexander Graham Bell invents first telephoneElection of Benjamin HarrisonDedication of Statue of LibertyPresident William McKinley AssassinatedEllis Island opensExodusters of 1879Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute opensInterstate Commerce Commission establishedBattle of Little Big HornDawes Act PassedAndrew Carnegie forms Carnegie SteelCompletion of Transcontinental RailroadKnights of Labor Railroad StrikeElection of Rutherford B. HayesElection of James A. GarfieldElection of Grover Cleveland (22nd President)AFL emergesRailroads Create Time ZonesPullman StrikeGospel of Wealth publishedJP Morgan begins JP Morgan Co.Compromise of 1877Hull House establishedIda B. Wells birthStrauder v. West VirginiaBland-Allison Act PassedWounded Knee MassacreApache resettled in OklahomaPeriods
Railroad strike of 1877Panic of 1893Credit Mobilier ScandalPanic of 1873Homestead Steel Strike
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