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Standard oil later controlled most of the nation’s refineries and pipelines. Oil builts its own oil barrels and employed scientists to figure out . The Standard Oil company dominated the oil market through horizontal integration. Rockefeller’s establishment is significant because it controlled almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation. It helped start the industrialization in the Gilded Age.
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Tilden won the popular vote but the Demo and Rep. Since there were two things of results from each state each granted their own candidate the victor Congress appointed a 15 member commission to choose the winner of the electoral votes. They chose Hayes as the winner.
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The country's first major strike amongst laborers and witnessed the first general strike in the nation's history. The strikes and the violence paralyzed the country's commerce. The railroad workers’ experienced pay cuts which created a sense of hostility amongst the workers. The strike helped set the stage for later violence amongst future laborers in the 1880s and 1890s.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur. It suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and declared the Chinese as ineligible for naturalization.
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The law was signed by President Chester A. Arthur. The act stated that federal government jobs were going to be awarded to those based off of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams.
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A rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square was an attempt to secure an 8 hour work day. 6 people were killed when a bomb was thrown at policemen. This act of violence was linked to the Knights of Labor and was a major setback to their cause. It shows the rising working class going against the gov't and the trials that followed proved the injustices of the judicial system and how powerful the media was.
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An act that broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund U.S. government efforts to "civilize" Native Americans. It assimilated the Native Americans.
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The strike highlighted both divisions within labor and the government's new willingness to use armed force to combat work stoppages. Rioting in several cities led to the deployment of 14,000 state and federal troops.
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The Democrats carried on in defeat as the sectional party of the South and host of whatever Populist sentiment remained. William McKinley won the presidency. Republicans then enacted a higher tariff (Dingley Tariff).