Gilded Age

  • Homestead Act

    Allowed anyone to claim about 160 acres for a small amount.
  • The beginning of the Gilded Age

    A period of political corruption in America
  • President Election

    President Grant was elected for president for a second term for implement congressional recover instruction and remove vestiges of slavery.
  • Carnegie forms his steel

    Carnegie combined bessemer steel and the steel america used to form a strong steel for the railroad.
  • Naming the age

    The Name, "the gilded age", came from Mark twain meaning, gorgeous on the outside but corrupted underneath.
  • New President

    Rutherford B. Hayes, became the next president because of congress establishing an electoral commission
  • Pullman Strike

    Severe economic depression which caused widespread railroad strike, severely disrupted rail traffic
  • WIlliam McKinley becomes president

    Became president from winning the spanish american war.
  • The Gilded Age ended