Timeline By s1640504 1862 Homestead Act 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed 1870 Industrialization began 1871 Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall 1876 Telephone invented 1877 Reconstruction Ends 1877 Gilded Age 1877-1890 1878 Light Bulb Invented 1880 Third Wave of Immigration 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1883 Pendleton Act 1887 Dawes Act 1887 Interstate Commerce Act 1889 Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth 1890 Sherman Anti- Trust Act 1890 Klondike Gold Rush 1892 Homestead Steel Labor Strike 1894 Pullman Labor Strike