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The Homestead Act
This bill, signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, allowed its applicants 160 acres of unclaimed land available in allotted states, rather in be in the mid or far western United States. -
Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
Soon to be petroleum mogul, John D. Rockefeller, incorporates his company, Standard Oil. -
Carniege embraces the Bessemer Process
"Captain of Industry" Andrew Carniege discovers Henry Bessemer's method of creating stronger and lighter steel and licenses it. -
Crédit Moblier Scandel
The New York Sun states that the current Vice-President and several members of congress received large amounts of stock after protecting the railroad company, Crédit Moblier, from investigation. -
Mark Twain writes the "Gilded Age"
An author with the pen name of Mark Twain published a book describing the current era as looking all well and good to the outside world but on the inside was a rotten system. -
Panic of 1873
With the crash of a popular bank, the entire nation goes into economic panic bordering instant depression. -
The Battle of Little Big Horn
General Armstrong Custer is defeated in an area known to the Indain natives as Little Big Horn in Montana by Chiefs Crazy Horse, Gall, and Two Moons when he foolishly rushed into battle when he underestimated the amount of forces the enemy obtained. -
Pendleton Act
To subsidize the amount of corruption in selecting civil service employees the federal government passes a bill to put in place an examination process for aspiring workers. -
Pullman Strike
Workers all across the country that work for the popular railroad corporation, Pullman, strike resulting in the formation of the American Railroad Union, or ARU, and violence across the nation. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Supreme Court cases uploads the "separate but equal" fundemental principle of racial segregation in the Deep South of the United States.
