Guilded Age

By Tamara Alquza

  • Samuel Gompers becomes leader of American Federation of Labor

    longest serving president of the american federation of labor

  • William Kelly and Henry Bessemer discover a way to process iron ore into steel

    Did this through the proccess of injecting air into molten iron

  • Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania

    first to successfully drill for oil

  • National Labor Union is organized

    sought to improve work environments through legislative reforms

  • Joseph McCoy established a cattle trading station in Kansas

    named the town abilene

  • Christopher sholes invents the typewriter

    It was the first working typewriter

  • Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory Point, Utah

    The central pacific railroad and the union pacific were going to connect

  • George Westinghouse invents the air brakes

    Air brakes are breaks that work by air pressure. George Westinghouse invented the air brakes and opens the company that manufactures them: Westinghouse Air Break Company

  • John D. Rockefeller creates Standard Oil in Ohio

    It was an american oil, producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company

  • Edison invents the phonograph

    Thomas Edison's favorite invention

  • The Great Railroad Strike

    U.S.'s first major air strike

  • Terrence Powderly becomes the leader of the kinghts of labor

    Leader of the largest labor organizations

  • Haymarket Square Riot

    Was the aftermath after someone threw a bomb at police

  • The Statue of Liberty is unveiled

    the statue of liberty is colassal, neoclassical sculpture

  • Andrew Carnegie publishes The Gospel of Wealth

    The book describes the responsibility of philanthropy

  • Forest Reserve Act passed

    law that allowed the U.S. president to setaside reserves from the land in public domain

  • Rivers and Harbors Act Passed

    oldest federal environmental law

  • Andrew carnegie sells U.S. Steel to J.p. Morgan for $480 million

    Andrew established Carnegie-Mellon University after selling his steel corporation

  • Standard Oil is dissobled

    It was a supreme court ruling