Unit 7: Corruption and Capitalism in the Gilded Age By brunsmat Nov 4, 1868 Grant Elected President Period: Nov 4, 1868 to Nov 4, 1872 Grant's First Term Jan 1, 1869 National Prohibitation Party Formed Jan 1, 1869 Women Gain Vote (WY) Jan 1, 1869 Knights of Labor Founded Jan 1, 1869 Trans-Continential Raillroad Completed Sep 24, 1869 Black Friday Jan 1, 1870 Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil Jan 1, 1871 New York Times Gets Evidence On Tweed (M/D date not avaliable) Jan 1, 1872 Tweed Busted (M/D date not avaliable) Jan 1, 1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal Nov 4, 1872 Grant 'Granted' Another Term Period: Nov 5, 1872 to Nov 4, 1876 Grant's Second Term Jan 1, 1873 Depression of 1873 Jan 1, 1875 Civil Rights Act Jan 1, 1875 Resumption Act Jan 1, 1876 Hayes-Tilden Standoff Jan 1, 1876 COlorado Joins the Union Period: Nov 4, 1876 to Nov 4, 1880 Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Term (Got electoral vote but lost popular vote) Jan 1, 1877 Compromise Of 1877 Period: Nov 5, 1880 to Jul 2, 1881 James Garfield's Presidency Garfield was assaisinated while in office by a mad office-seeking man. Jan 1, 1881 Knights of Labor Publicized Period: Jul 3, 1881 to Nov 4, 1885 Chester A. Arthur Presidential Term Jan 1, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Jan 1, 1883 Pendelton Act Jan 1, 1885 Knights of Labor Reach 750,000 Members Period: Nov 5, 1885 to Nov 4, 1889 Grover Cleveland First Term Jan 1, 1886 Statue of Liberty Given By France Jan 1, 1886 Haymarket Square Bombing Jan 1, 1886 Pacific RR Vs Illinois Jan 1, 1886 National Labor Union Founded Jan 1, 1887 American Protective Agency Formed Jan 1, 1887 Interstate Commerce Act Jan 1, 1887 Dawes Severality Act Period: Nov 5, 1889 to Nov 4, 1893 Benjamin Harrison Presidential Term Jan 1, 1890 McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 Jan 1, 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act Jan 1, 1890 Battle Of Wounded Knee Jan 1, 1893 Depression of 1893 Period: Nov 5, 1893 to Nov 4, 1897 Grover Cleveland Second Term Jan 1, 1894 Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 Jan 1, 1894 Labor Day Made National Holiday Jan 1, 1896 Plessy Vs. Ferguson