Jade's Gilded Age Timeline

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    1862 Homestead Act

    The government provided 160 acres of land for anyone to buy or own
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    Rockerfeller Incorporates Standard Oil

    Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
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    Crédit Mobilier Scandal

    There was 2 companies that committed fraud that were in the construction of railroads business
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    Railroad Strike of 1877

    A bunch of workers went on strike to get paid and treated better
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    Garfield Assassination

    James A. Garfield was shot and assassinated at a railroad train station
  • Railroads Create Standard Time Zones

    This is when the timezones in america were created which is now very useful then and even in the modern day future. The time zones are named, pacific, central, mountain and eastern
  • Haymarket Riot

    A violent confrontation to the police on how they were being treated and wages
  • Homestead Steel Strike

    There was a battle between workers and a security force, due to the workers calling another strike for wages, so the union locked them up.
  • Federal Troops Crush Pullman Strike

    A railroad strike and boycott by protestors started so the government got federal troops to get control of them
  • Henry Frick Survives Attack

    Henry Frick is attached by labor activist, and gets stabbed. but still survives