1. 1865-1911 Timeline
The Industrial Age /
The Gilded Age
By Matthew Shimshock
2. Each Chapter is Color Coded
Chapter 13 – Green
Chapter 14 - Blue
Chapter 15 - Yellow
Chapter 16 - Red
3. 1862 1869 1870
5/10/1869
The transcontinental The Tweed Ring is formed Jacob Riis leaves his
The Homestead Act
railroad is connected as New York City’s most native home of
offers 160 acres of
at Promontory, Utah powerful democratic political Denmark and becomes
land free to any
when the Central machine. It is led by Boss a police photographer .
citizens or intended
Pacific and the Union Tweed. These corrupt He took some of the
citizens who were the
Pacific meet. politicians stole money from best photos and used
head of house hold.
tax payers and are possibly them to expose the
the most corrupt politicians hardships of the New
in American history. The York slums. He took
Tweed Ring took advantage pictures of mainly
of the numerous Tenements which were
opportunities for graft, the overcrowded and
illegal use of political unsanitary multifamily
influence for personal and urban dwellings.
political gain. They also
used “kick backs” which
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were illegal payments for
their services, this enriched
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the political machine and
individual political bosses.
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1870 1874 1876
June 1869
John D. Rockefeller’s Mark Twain, one of George A. Custer Thomas Alva Edison
Standard Oil Company the most famous reported that the Black became a pioneer on
processed 2 - 3 authors of the time, Hills had gold. The the new industrial
percent of the writes the book “The Sioux and the frontier when he
country’s crude oil. Gilded Age” which is Cheyenne had a sun established the world’s
Within a decade they said to describe the dance and saw Indians first research
controlled 90%. This time and era. The and soldiers falling laboratory in Menlo
is almost considered to characters of this book from their horses. They Park, New Jersey.
be a monopoly (the tryed to get rich quick met Custer and his There Edison
complete control over but find it harder then cavalry at the Little perfected the light
it’s industry’s they anticipated. Bighorn river and bulb. George
production wages and crushed Custer’s Westinghouse along
prices.) troops. with Edison added
innovations that made
electricity safer and
less expensive.
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1876 1877
Jun – Oct 1869
Alexander Graham Nez Pearce War Chief Joseph was one Buffalo Soldiers were
Bell unveiled a very occurred in 1887. of the leaders of the black soldiers that
important invention of These battles were Nez Pearce War. He formed the 9th and 10th
this century, the fought by the Indians led his troops along Calvary. They also
telephone. The to try and get their with Sitting Bull to try fought the 24th and 25th
telephone made native lands back from and find political infantry regiments.
communication easier the U.S government. asylum in the “war” These soldiers fought
and more efficient. against the federal in the American Indian
government. He fought wars.
in the Nez Pearce war
where he formally
surrendered.
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1880
The Vanderbilt family American Ragtime originated in George Pullman built
owned railroad manufacturers were this time period. It Is a a company that
systems in western using the Bessemer mix between African manufactures sleeper
North Carolina. They process to produce 90 American spirituals carts. He owned a
were one of the many percent of the nation’s and European musical town that is almost a
prominent millionaire steel. This process forms. Ragtime led utopian society.
families in the era. involved injecting air later to jazz, rhythm Pullman had a tightly
into molten iron to and blues, and rock ‘n’ controlled environment
remove carbon and roll. for his workers.
other impurities. However Pullman
refused to give his
workers better wages
and they went on a
violent strike in 1894
also know as the
Pullman strikes.
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1881 1883 1884 1886
5/4/1869
Dumbell Tenements are Booker T. Joseph Pulitzer, a The Mugwumps form. Haymarket Affair was
made in New York City. These Washington believed Hungarian immigrant These are political one of the most violent
tenements were used to help that racism would end bought the New York activists. They were strikes in this time
immigrants that were coming once blacks acquired World newspaper. This republicans who period. One of the
from all of the world and came useful labor skills and was a popular decided to vote for the rioters tossed a bomb
through an immigration station proved economic innovation that Democratic candidates into a crowd of police.
called Ellis island. There was value. He founded the emphasized “sin, sex, because they knew Seven police officers
also another on the west coast Tuskegee Normal and and sensation”. His that James G. Blain died as well as several
called Angel island. Both Industrial Institute to main competitor, was politically corrupt. workers.
were meant to help immigrants help African Americans William Hearst
adjust to the culture shock of acquire useful skills. owned the San
the U.S. During this time Francisco Examiner.
period America was known as He sought to outdo his
a Melting Pot because this other paper, the New
seemed to be the place where York Journal, by filling
people from all nations lived it with exaggerated
and spoke the same language. tales.
Because of many immigrants
the idea of nativism came
about or favoritism of native-
born Americans.
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1886 1887 1888 1889
Sweat shops are very The National Colored The Dawes Act is George Eastman Jane Addams founds
popular around this Farmers Alliance is passed. It meant to developed a series of the Chicago's Hull
time. These like its white “Americanize” the more convenient house. This building
workshops were in counterpart the Indians and possibly cameras compared to was a settlement
tenements rather than National Farmers lead to assimilation. heavy glass plated house and was found
in factories. Workers Alliance. Both wanted This is the plan in cameras. These new in a slum
had little choice but to to educate people on which Native cameras used flexible neighborhood that
put up with the interest rates and Americans give up film which could be provided assistance to
conditions. government loans. way of life and become sent immediately to a people in the area,
part of the white processing center. especially immigrants.
culture. The Dawes act These buildings came
breaks up Indian about because of
reservations and give urbanization or
some of the land back growth of cities.
to individual Native
Americans. Most of the
Indians at this time
lived on the Great
Plains which was a
huge amount of flat
land full of wild buffalo.
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1890 1892
12/28/1890
The Sherman Members of Custer's The Omaha Platform Ida B. Wells was a editor for
Antitrust Act is old regiment rounded is the populist party a local paper. She helped
passed. This law was up about 350 Sioux convention in Omaha. fight against the evils of
intended to prevent Indians and took them They demanded lynching and other forms of
monopolies by making to a camp called reforms to be lifted to racism including the poll tax
it illegal to establish Wounded Knee. The get rid of the burden of which is to be paid at the
trusts that interfered next day the soldiers debt from farmers and polls. Most blacks could not
with free trade. demanded that the other workers. afford this tax. Another issue
Indians give up all their that many blacks had to deal
guns. A shot was fired with was the grandfather
and the soldiers killed clause which stated that if
almost 300 unarmed your father or grandfather
Native Americans. could vote before January 1st
1867 you could vote. This
means that most blacks could
not vote because many of
them were still slaves. Most of
these laws were called Jim
Crow laws, which were laws
meant to exploit the African
American population.
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1894 1895 1896
Eugene V. Debs was a W.E.B Du Bois is the William Jennings In Plessy V.
socialist who attempted first African American Bryan was the editor Ferguson, the
to form an industrial to receive a doctorate of the Omaha World supreme court ruled
union called the from Harvard. He Herald. He ran for the that the separation of
American Railway Union. founded the Niagara Democratic races in public
They allowed unskilled Movement which Nomination for accommodations was
workers and skilled insisted that blacks President and was a legal and did not
workers alike into the seek a liberal arts firm Believer in the violate the Fourteenth
Union. They also education. silver standard. He Amendment.
focused on Collective gave the Cross of
Bargaining, or Gold Speech which
negotiation between was in huge opposition
representatives of labor of the gold standard.
and management to
reach agreements on
working conditions.
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1903 1910 1911
12/17/1903
Orville and Wilbur About 10 million The Supreme Court
Wright, bicycle Americans shopped by ruled that debt
manufacturers from mail ordered peonage, a system
Dayton, Ohio, catalogs. This was a that bound laborers
experiment with new huge advancement into slavery in order to
engines powerful because it was work off a debt to a
enough to have a craft delivered to you no employer, was illegal.
heavier than air float matter where you
aloft. On December lived. Americans could
17th at Kitty Hawk, order clothes or
North Carolina, they Merchandise.
flew the first plane120
feet in the air for 12
seconds.
