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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk 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

KEY TURNING POINTS: In the era of industrialization, what events prompted the rise of labor unions and other reform groups that called for stronger government responses to corporate power? Before 1900, what key events or turning points marked reformers’ successes and failures?