The Gilded Age & Progressive Era

The Gilded Age (1865-1890) The Gilded Page at the College of William and Mary Professional Baseball (Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first team to pay their players in 1869) The Transcontinental Railroad (completed in 1869) Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum The History of the Standard Oil Company (formed in 1870) Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone in 1876) Andrew Carnegie Battle of the Little Big Horn (1876) The Hatfield-McCoy Feud (1878-1891) Thomas Edison (invented the electric light in 1879) P.T. Barnum (joined James A. Bailey in 1881 to stage the "Greatest Show on Earth") The Gunfight at the OK Corral (1881 Red Cross (founded in 1881 by Clara Barton) The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) The Pendleton Act (1883, reformed the civil service) American Federation of Labor (formed in 1886) The Dawes Act (1887, took the remaining Indians off their lands) Jane Addams and Hull House (founded 1889) Battle of Wounded Knee (1890) Massacre at Wounded Knee Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Jack London (1876-1916) Mark Twain (1835-1910) America Becomes a World Power (1890-1900) The Age of Imperialism (includes expansion in the Pacific, the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Panama Canal, and the Roosevelt Corallary) The Election of 1896 Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) The Library of Congess (opened in 1897) The Birth of U.S. Imperialism: An Introduction to the Spanish-American War (1898) The Spanish American War (1898) Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders "The White Man's Burden" and Its Critics (published in 1899) The Phillipine-American War (1899-1902)

The Progressive Era (1900-1914) Ellis Island The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (published in 1900, explains how it relates to history) The Gospel of Wealth (1901) The Titanic (sunk on April 14, 1907) The "Bull Moose" Progessive Party (1912) The Federal Reserve Act (1913) The Pulitzer Prizes (first awarded in 1917) William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) John Muir (1838- 1913, founder of the Sierra Club) Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) The Wright Brothers