Gilded Age By jcadams 1865 End of Civil War 1869 Knights of Labor Founded 1870 Second Industrial Revolution Start 1870 Second Wave of Immigration begins 1873 Panic of 1873 1874 WCTU founded 1877 Reconstruction Ends 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1880 Urbanization Grows in US 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1886 Haymarket Square bombing 1886 AFL founded 1886 Statue of Liberty Completed 1887 American Protective Association formed 1889 Jane Addams opens Hull House in Chicago 1892 Homestead Steel Strike 1892 Pledge of Allegiance written 1893 Depression of 1893 begins 1893 Lillian Wald opens Henry Street Settlement in NY 1893 Anti-Saloon League formed 1894 Immigration restriction league is created in Boston 1894 Pullman Strike 1898 Spanish American War