Timeline and Terms

Events

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Alternating current motor invented
American Sugar Refining Company formed
Australian ballot adopted
Battle of Little Bighorn
Benjamin Harrison elected president
Bland-Allison Act
Chester Arthur became president
Electoral Count Act of 1887
Electric street car system
First skyscraper
First woman admitted to US Supreme Court bar
Formation of US Steel
Gold Standard Act
Great Chicago Fire
Great Railway Strike of 1877
Grover Cleveland elected president
Haymarket Square Riot
Homestead Steel Strike
Incandescent light bulb invented
James Garfield assassinated
James Garfield elected president
McKinley re-elected
McKinley Tariff
National Farmers’ Alliance formed
Nation’s largest steel plant opened.
Northern Pacific Railroad completed
Panic of 1893
Pendleton Act
Phonograph invented
Plessy v. Ferguson
Populist Party’s first convention
Progress and Poverty
Pullman Steel Strike
Red Cross founded
Rough Riders formed
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Spanish-American War
Standard Oil organized
Standard Oil Trust organized
Statue of Liberty dedicated
Telephone patented
Whiskey Ring scandal
William McKinley elected president
World’s Fair in Chicago
“Gilded Age” coined
“Gospel of Wealth”

People

Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
Belva Lockwood
Benjamin Harrison
Carrie Nation
Charles Schwab
Chester A. Arthur
Clarence Darrow
Crazy Horse
George Armstrong Custer
Horatio Alger
Ida B. Wells
Jacob Riis
James Garfield
Jane Addams
John D. Rockefeller
John Pierpont Morgan
Joseph Pulitzer
Leland Stanford
Leon Czolgosz
Lili’uokalani
Mark Twain
Rutherford B. Hayes
Sitting Bull
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Walt Whitman
William McKinley
William Randolph Hearst
William Tweed

Places

Statue of Liberty

Organizations

American Woman Suffrage Association
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Big Four
Central Pacific Railroad
Crédit Mobilier
Great Northern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knights of Labor
monopoly
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Farmers’ Alliance
National Woman Suffrage Association
Northern Pacific Rail Road
Populist Party
robber barons
Rough Riders
Southern Pacific Railroad
Standard Oil
Tammany Hall
Union Pacific Railroad
US Steel Corporation