Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1863
  • Cleveland, Ohio, becomes nation’s petroleum refining center

1865
  • Chicago’s Union Stock Yard opens

1867
  • National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry founded

1869
  • Knights of Labor founded

1875
  • John Wanamaker opens nation’s first department store in Philadelphia

1876
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

1877
  • San Francisco mob attacks Chinatown

  • Great Railroad Strike

1878
  • Greenback-Labor Party elects 15 Congressmen.

1879
  • Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty

1882
  • John D. Rockefeller creates Standard Oil Trust

  • Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act

1884
  • Knights of Labor at peak of membership

1885
  • Rock Springs massacre of Chinese miners

1886
  • Haymarket Square violence

  • American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded

1887
  • Hatch Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

1889
  • New Jersey passes law enabling trusts to operate in the state

1892
  • Homestead lockout

1893
  • Severe depression hits; causes mass unemployment and wave of corporate mergers

1900
  • America’s one hundred largest companies control one-third of national productive capacity

1901
  • J. P. Morgan creates U.S. Steel, America’s first billion-dollar corporation

1907
  • Marianna, Pennsylvania, mine disaster

1908
  • Walter Dill publishes The Psychology of Advertising

Question

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