U.S. HISTORY By gorejaden9 1862 Homestead Act 1869 Transcontinental Railroad Completed 1871 Boss Tweed rise a Tammany Hall 1876 Telephone Invented 1877 Industrialization Begins to Boom 1877 Reconstruction Ends Period: 1877 to 1890 Gilded Age 1878 Light Bulb Invented 1880 3rd 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 Klondike Gold Rush 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1892 Homestead Steel Labor Strike 1894 Pullman Labor Strike 1945 United Nations (UN) Formed 1945 Germany Divided 1947 Truman Doctrine Period: 1947 to 1991 The Cold War 1948 Marshall Plan 1948 Berlin Airlift