gilded age

  • Jan 10, 1870

    Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio
  • Mar 4, 1871

    Ulysses Grant names George Curtis to head the Civil Service Commission.
  • Sep 4, 1872

    Political members accused of receiving free stock for protecting the Crédit Mobilier.
  • Nov 5, 1872

    Ulysses Grant reelected as president
  • Dec 19, 1872

    Andrew Carnegie returns to America to expand his steel business.
  • Sep 18, 1873

    Panic of 1873
  • Jul 16, 1877

    Railroad Strike of 1877
  • Jun 30, 1892

    Homestead Steel Strike
  • Nov 3, 1896

    William McKinley elected president
  • Apr 1, 1898

    Theodore Roosevelt resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.