Gilded Age Timeline

By kaylieleeper

  • Grant Elected President

    Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States. Grant receives 214 of 294 votes in the Electoral College. But his margin of victory in the popular vote is only 306,000 out of 5.7 million votes cast.

  • Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil

    His standard oil company is incorporated in Ohio. he had been active in the oil business since 1873

  • James Garfield elected president

  • Pendleton Act

  • Homestead Steel Strike

  • Battle At Homestead Steel

  • The Pullman Strike

  • Debs Expands Rail Strike