Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By jayrobertson
  • Period: to

    1870-1920

  • John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company

  • Rapid Industrialization

  • Rise of Rockefeller and Carnegie

  • Andrew Carnegie founded his 1st steel plant, the Edgar Thomson Works

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Haymarket Square Riot

  • Interstate Commerce Act passed

  • Sherman Antitrust Act passed

  • Plessy v. Ferguson case decided

  • Theodore Roosevelt the "trust-buster4" becomes President

  • Anthracite Coal Strike

  • Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act Passed

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

  • 16th amendment passed (income tax)

  • 17th Amendemnt Passed (direct election of senators)

  • 18th Amendment (Prohibition)

  • 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage)