2. After the Civil War and the Reconstruction period,
there was a period called the Gilded Age. A lot of
events, fights and new Acts took place during this
time. This timeline is a representation of all of the
events that occurred all across the U.S. The good,
the bad, and even the ugly. Enjoy !
3. Homestead
Bessemer Fredrick Law Act- this act
Process- Olmsted- offered 160 acres
developed by spearheaded the of land free to
Henry Bessemer movement for any citizen or
and William planned urban intended citizen
Kelley, involved parks. He also who was head of
injecting air into helped draw up the household .
molten iron to get the plan for Up to 600,000
rid of all Central Park in families took
impurities. New York City. advantage of this
offer.
1850 1857 1859 1862
Social Darwinism
Sweat Shops- grew out of
any working Charles Darwin’s
environment theory of
considered to be biological
unacceptably evolution.
difficult or
dangerous.
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4. Boss Tweed was
Sand Creek head of
Massacre- Tammany Hall,
Chivington and New York City’s
his troops powerful
attacked the Democratic
Cheyenne and Machine.
the Arapaho.
They killed over
150 people,
mostly women
and children.
1864 1866 1867 1868
Buffalo Oliver Kelley,
Soldier- An started the
African-American Patrons of
cavalry soldier, Husbandry, also
the name was known as
given by the Grange. Which
Native American purpose was to
tribes they provide a social
fought. and educational
outlet for isolated
farm families.
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5. Vanderbilt
Family- One of
the wealthiest
families in U.S.
history. Started
off with the
shipping and
George railroad empires,
Westinghouse then expanded
invented the into other areas
railway air brake. of industrial and
philanthropy.
1869 1870
Tweed Ring- a
group that Boss
John D.
Tweed led of
Rockefeller- An
corrupt
American
politicians, in
industrialist and
defrauding the
Philanthropist.
city.
Founder of the
Standard Oil
Company.
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6. Jacob Riis-
Became and
advocate for the
abused and
impoverished in Mail-Order
New York City. Catalogs became
He produced popular. It was a
many photos of Catalog of
New York, which general
he is most merchandise for
famous for. a company.
1870 1872 1874
George
Armstrong Custer
National Farmer’s
reported that the
Alliance began.
Black Hills had
gold, and a gold
rush began. He
also led the 7th
cavalry for the
U.S. army.
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7. Alexander
Thomas Alva Edison Graham Bell
established the worlds invented the
first research telephone, which
laboratory in New opened the way
Jersey. There he for a worldwide
perfected the communication
incandescent light bulb network.
and he invented an
entire system for
producing and
distributing power.
1876
Jim-Crow Laws
took affect, which
mandated racial
segregation in all
public facilities in
the Southern
States
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8. Battle of Little Big
Horn, took place
between the
Lakota,
Cheyenne, and
the Arapaho
tribes against the
U.S 7th Cavalry.
Most prominent
war of the Great
Sioux War.
1876 1877
Beginning of the
Sitting Bull- Gilded Age
leader of the
Hunkpapa Sioux
tribe
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9. Chief Joseph,
leader of the
Wallowa band. Poll tax- A tax
Led his band in that had to paid
the Nez Pearce before qualifying
War to vote. Aimed
mostly at African
Americans.
1877 1879
Nez Perce- Dumbbell
Native American Tenements were
people who lived footprint shape
in the Pacific tenements built in
Northwest region New York after
of the United the Tenement
States. They had House Act of
an epic flight to 1879.
freedom in 1877.
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10. Wild Bill
Hickok- Scout Ragtime music,
and spy during and the
the Civil War, he Vaudeville
was very violent, theatre was very
and known for popular during
getting shot the 1880’s.
during a poker Ragtime led to
game while Jazz, Blues, and
holding a pair of Rock n’ Roll.
aces and a pair
of eights.
1880
Urbanization-
Settlement growth of cities,
Houses were mostly in the
community northeast and
centers in slum Midwest regions.
neighborhood
that provided
assistance to
people in that
area, especially
immigrants.
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11. Ida B. Wells ,
was a African-
Booker T.
American
Washington was
Journalist who
a prominent
wrote a lot about
African-American
Racial Justice.
educator, who
She was an early
headed the
leader of the Civil
Tuskegee Normal
Rights
and Industrial
Movement.
Institute.
1880 1881
George Pullman
designed and
manufactured the
Pullman Sleep
Car.
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12. Bimetallism- a
monetary system Mark Twain was
where the a popular novelist
government and humorist, he
would give wrote the
citizens either “Adventures of
gold or silver in Huckleberry Fin”,
exchange for and the
paper currency or “Adventures of
checks. Tom Sawyer”.
1883 1884 1885
Joseph Mugwumps -
Pulitzer- a people who went
Hungarian from the
immigrant who Republican Party
bought the New by supporting
York World, and democratic
pioneered candidate Glover
innovations like, Cleveland.
comics, women’s
news, sports, and
the large Sunday
edition.
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13. Haymarket
Affair – a
bombing that took William
place at a labor Randolph
demonstration in Hearst- Built
Chicago. A few the largest
people died. newspaper
chain..
1886 1887
Colored Samuel Gompers Interstate The Dawes Act
Farmer’s led the Cigar Commerce was passed by
Alliance- same Maker’s Commission- congress to “
thing as the International regulates Americanize”
National Farmer’s Union to join with railroads, Native
Alliance, but other craft trucking, ensures Americans.
consisted of unions. fair rates, and
African regulates other
Americans. common carriers.
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14. Ghost Dance- Trust- a
25,000 Sioux relationship
participated , where by
Native Americans property is held
thought that it Sherman by one party for
would drive the Antitrust Act he benefit of
white people and made it illegal to another.
their way of life form a trust that
would be interfered with
restored. free trade
between states or
with other
countries.
1888 1890
Eugene V.
George Eastman Wounded Knee Debbs-
introduced the -Custer’s attempted to form
first Kodak regiment the American
camera. He also encamped 350 Railway Union
developed a Sioux, and were (ARU)
more convenient demanded to give
alternatives to up all weapons,
heavy glass and shots were
plates previously fired. 300 Natives
used in died, and were
photography. left to freeze.
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15. Collective Ellis Island-
Graft- the illegal Bargaining- the gateway for
use of political process of millions of
influence for negotiation immigrants, in the
personal gain. between upper New York
employers and Bay.
employees aimed
at reaching
agreements of
working
conditions.
1890 1891 1892
Kickback- illegal Omaha
payments for Platform- party
peoples services program adopted
on the political at the formative
machines. convention of the
populist party.
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16. “Cross of
Gold’” Speech-
given at the
William democratic
W.E.B Dubois- Mckinley- convention by
the first African- Republican William Jennings
American to Candidate for the Bryan.
receive a election.
doctorate from
Harvard.
1894 1895 1896
Pullman
Strike-
manufacture Plessey Vs.
workers Ferguson-
protested Supreme Court William
because of low ruled that Jennings
wages. segregation in Bryan-
public democratic
accommodations candidate in the
was legal and election, editor of
didn't violate the the Omaha
14th amendment. World- Herald.
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17. Political
Machine-
offered services
Patronage – the
to voters and
giving of
businesses in
government jobs
exchange for
to people who
political or
helped get a
financial help.
candidate
elected.
1899 1900
Andrew Jane Addams- End of the Gilded
Carnegie- one founder of the Age.
of the first Hull House, and
industrial moguls leader in woman
to make his own suffrage and
fortune. The world peace.
Carnegie Steele
Company
manufactured
more steel than
all of the factories
in Britain.
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18. Angel Island-
Debt Peonage- immigration and
a system that inspection facility
bound laborers in California,
into slavery in used mostly by
order to work of a Chinese
debt to the immigrants.
employer.
1900 1910
The Wright
Brothers invented
the first
successful
airplane .
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