The Gilded Age

By natalimorales27

  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age began. Second Industrial Revolution.

  • Congress enacts 8-hour workday

    Congress approves 8-hour workday for government employeess

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    The Transcontinental Railroad is completed.

  • Rockefeller Oil

    Rockefeller forms Standard Oil of Ohio

  • Financial Panic of 1873

    The Financial Panic of 1873 begins. 5,183 businesses fail.

  • Bell patents the telephone.

    Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

  • The Compromise

    Compromise of 1877. Republican candidate Hayes appointed President in exchange for withdrawing troops from the South. This kickstarted Jim Crow.

  • The Phonograph Invented

    Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.

  • Lightbulb invented

    Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb.

  • James A. Garfield

    President Garfield assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

  • The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

    Pendleton Civil Service Act forbade presidents awarding government positions to their supporters.

  • American Federation of Labor is formed

    After the Haymark Riot of 1886 the American Federation of Labor union is formed.

  • Wealth

    The top 1% of the US population owned 25% of the nation's wealth.

  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike saw steel workers go on strike. They were put down by the state government.

  • The Morgan Bonds

    Economic depression. President Cleveland forced to ask JP Morgan for a loan of over $60 million.

  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike saw railroad workers across the country going on strike. The President sent in the military to defeat the strike.

  • Populist Party End

    End of the People's Party.

  • Railroads

    40,000 miles of railroad tracks laid out across the country. End of the Gilded Age.