Politics, Immagration and Urbanization in the Gilded Age

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  • Cornelius Vanderbilt moved to buy stock in the Erie to combine with his own railroad

    Cornelius Vanderbilt moved to buy stock in the Erie to combine with his own railroad

  • Congress gives an 8-hour workday for workers employed by the government.

  • Jay Gould had become the most powerful railroad man in New York

    Jay Gould had become the most powerful railroad man in New York
    had become the most powerful railroad man in New York

  • The Great Chicage Fire - 18,000 buildings burned

  • Central Pacific Railroad reportedely budgeted $500,000 each year for bribes

    Central Pacific Railroad reportedely budgeted $500,000 each year for bribes

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

  • Rutherford B. Hayes surprised many supporters by refusing to use the patronage system

    Rutherford B. Hayes surprised many supporters by refusing to use the patronage system

  • President Hayes withdrew federal troops from the South, ending the Reconstruction.

  • George B. Cox won election to the city counsel

  • Charles Guiteau shot James A. Garfield, the president.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act was passed

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act was passed

    a law that created a civil service commission and stated that federal employees could not be required to contribute campaign funs nor be fired for political reasons.

  • McKinley went on a tour of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

  • Federal gov. built an immigration center on Angel Island.

  • World War I begins in Europe

  • Immigration Restriction Act limited immigration from Europe and Asia.