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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