Timeline Assignment 1880 - 1914 By miacontilli Period: 1875 to 1905 U.S. Imperialism Period: 1876 to 1892 The Gilded Age Period: 1877 to 1881 President Rutherford B. Hayes Period: 1881 to 1881 President James A. Garfield Period: 1881 to 1885 President Chester A. Arthur Period: 1885 to 1889 President Grover Cleveland (1st Term) Dec 8, 1886 Founding of the AFL Feb 4, 1887 Passing of the Interstate Commerce Act Period: 1889 to 1893 President Benjamin Harrison Dec 29, 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre Jan 1, 1892 Opening of Ellis Island Period: Jun 30, 1892 to Jul 6, 1892 Homestead Strike Period: 1893 to 1897 President Grover Cleveland (2nd Term) May 18, 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson "separate but equal" decision made Period: 1897 to 1920 The Progressive Era Period: 1897 to 1901 President William McKinley Period: Apr 21, 1898 to Dec 10, 1898 Spanish-American War Period: 1901 to 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt Dec 17, 1903 Wright Brothers' First Flight Jun 30, 1906 Signing of the Pure Food and Drug Act Period: 1909 to 1913 President William Howard Taft Feb 12, 1909 NAACP Founded