| •1865–1895 | U.S. manufacturing jobs jump from 5.3 million to 15.1 million |
| •1867 | Grange founded |
| •1869 | Knights of Labor founded |
| •1870–1900 | Number of female wageworkers increases by 66 percent |
| •1877 | Great Railroad Strike |
| •1879 | Terence Powderly becomes leader of Knights of Labor |
| •1880s | Northwestern, Southern, and Colored Farmers' Alliances formed |
| •1886 | Haymarket Square violence |
| American Federation of Labor founded |
| •1887 | Interstate Commerce Act |
| •1889 | Northwestern and Southern Farmers' Alliances merge |
| •1890 | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| •1890s | Southern states restrict blacks' right to vote |
| •1892 | Homestead steelworkers' strike |
| Populist Party established |
| •1893 | Depression triggered by stock market collapse |
| •1894 | Pullman strike |
| Coxey's army marches to Washington |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealed |
| •1896 | Populist William Jennings Bryan runs for president |
| •1897 | Populist Party declines |
| •1901 | Eugene Debs establishes Socialist Party of America |