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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
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