Unit 7 - Capitalism and Corruption

By BernhardGa
  • Period: to

    1865-1900

  • Grant defeats Seymour for presidency.

    Grant defeats Seymour for presidency.

  • Fisk and Gould corner gold market

  • Tweed scandal in New York

  • Credit Mobilier Scandal

  • Liberal Republicans break with Grant

  • Grant defeats Greeley for presidency

  • Panic of 1873

  • Whiskey Ring scandal

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

  • Resumption Act

  • Hayes-Tilden election standoff and crisis

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Reconstruction ends

  • Railroad strikes paralyze nation

  • Garfield defeats Hancock for presidency

  • Garfield assassinated; Arthur assumes presidency

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Civil Rights Cases

  • Pendleton Act sets up Civil Service Commission

  • Cleveland defeats Blaine for presidency

  • Harrison defeats Cleveland for presidency

  • "Billion Dollar" Congress

  • McKinley Tariff Act

  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act (repealed 1893)

  • Homestead steel strike

  • Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) silver miners' strike

  • People's party candidate James B. Weaver wins twenty-two electoral votes

  • Cleveland defeats Harrison and Weaver to regain presidency

  • Depression of 1893 begins

  • Republicans regain House of Representatives