TIMELINE FOR GILDED AGE

Grant Elected President

Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil

Carnegie Imitates Bessemer Steel

1872

Grand Re-elected

1872

Mark Twain Publishes “The Gilded Age”

1873

Panic of 1873

1873-1879

Corruption in GRANT ADMINISTRATION

Bell Invents Telephone

1876

Railroad Strike of 1877

1877

Garfield Elected President

1980

Garfield Assassination

1881

Pendleton Act

1883

Cleveland Elected President

1884

Knights of Labor Union Strike

1884

Haymarket Riot

1886

College Football known as a national sport (Stanford vs. Yale)

1892

Homestead Steel Strike

1892

Populist Party Convention

1892

Battle at Homestead Steel

1892

Pullman Strike

1994

Populist Elect William Jennings Bryan

1896

McKinley vs. Bryan

1896

McKinley WINS