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Gilded Age

By Kamyia1

  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right to vote regardless "of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

  • Ulysses S. Grant Re-elected

    Ulysses S. Grant Re-elected
    President Ulysses S. Grant is reelected to a second term as President of the United States, defeating Horace Greeley, the nominee of both the Democratic and Liberal Republican Parties. Grant receives 56% of the popular vote and 286 of 352 Electoral College votes. Greeley dies less than a month after the election.

  • Mark Twain Publishes The Gilded Age

    Mark Twain Publishes The Gilded Age
    Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner publish The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, a satire of contemporary greed and corruption, coining the label for the period that is now commonly applied to the second half of the 19th century.

  • Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone
    Inventor Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits a human voice over a wire. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication.

  • Grant Elected President

    Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected President of the United States. Grant receives 214 of 294 votes in the Electoral College. But his margin of victory in the popular vote is only 306,000 out of 5.7 million votes cast. The support of 500,000 recently enfranchised Southern Black voters accounts for Grant's victory.