Events
Marianna Mine DisasterHomestead lockoutChicago's Union Stock Yards openKnights of Labor foundedJohn Wanamaker opens nation's first department store in PhiladelphiaAlexander Graham Bell invents the telephoneSan Francisco mob attacks ChinatownGreat Railroad StrikeFirst Farmers' Alliances form in SOuth and WestGreen-Back Labor Party elects fifteen congressmenHenry George publishes Progress and PovertyJOhn D. Rockefeller creates Standard Oil trustCongress passes Chinese Exclusion ActRock Springs massacre of Chinese minersHaymarket Square violenceAMerican Federation of Labor (AFL) foundedHatch ActIntesrstate Commerce ActNew Jersey passes law enabling trusts to operate in the stateHomestead lockoutJ.P. Morgan creates U.S. Steel, America's first billion-dollar corporationWalter Dill Scott publishes teh Psychology of Advertisinghomes+factories Switch to electric powerSinger goes overseasCarnegie writes The Gospel of WealthU.S. counts more than 12,000 mail-order companiesCompanies start spending $90 million.year (2.3 bil today) in print advertisingWomen enter the corporate officedeskilling of laborStudy of the Illinois Central Railroad1/5 kids working outside of the house75+ percent of San Francisco and New York City residents had at least one parent who was foreign-born.European immigrants start being routed through New York's Ellis IslandNew
eventKearney burns San Franscico's ChinatownRock Springs, Wyoming MassareNational Grange of the Patrons of HusbandrySouthewest Railroad strikePeriods
Rise of Cleveland, OHio, as a petroleum refining centerSevere economic depression; extreme anti-asian racism in the pacific statesViolence in Russia and Eastern Europe promts mass immigration of Jews to U.S.Peak activism of the Knights of LaborSevere economic depressionrail lines expand west
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