#Gilded-Age
Events indexed under #Gilded-Age — 50 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-02-03 | Supreme Court Loewe v. Lawlor Decision Holds Union Members Personally Liable for Damages
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller · United Hatters of North America · D.E. Loewe & Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-02 | Platt Amendment Enacted - Cuba Becomes U.S. Protectorate
3 src William McKinley · Orville H. Platt · Elihu Root · Leonard Wood · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-26 | U.S. Steel Formation - Morgan Creates First Billion-Dollar Trust
3 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · Elbert Gary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1901-02-25 | U.S. Steel Corporation Formed - First Billion-Dollar Corporation in History
4 src J.P. Morgan · Andrew Carnegie · Charles Schwab · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1900-06-20 | Boxer Rebellion - Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion Enforces Imperial Control
3 src Eight-Nation Alliance · William McKinley · John Hay · Edwin Conger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1899-09-06 | Open Door Policy Announced - Corporate Imperialism Disguised as Free Trade
3 src John Hay · William Woodville Rockhill · William McKinley · American Asiatic Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1899-02-04 | Philippine-American War Begins - Liberation Becomes Brutal Occupation
3 src Emilio Aguinaldo · William McKinley · U.S. Army forces · Philippine independence movement · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1899-01-01 | Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak
3 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Trust · Railroad corporations · Competing refineries · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-07-07 | Hawaii Annexation - U.S. Legitimizes Corporate Coup Against Monarchy
3 src William McKinley · Sanford B. Dole · Queen Liliuokalani · Sugar plantation owners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1898-05-01 | Embalmed Beef Scandal - War Profiteering and McKinley Administration Negligence
3 src Russell A. Alger · William McKinley · Armour & Co · Swift & Co · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1898-04-25 | Spanish-American War Begins - Imperial Expansion Under Humanitarian Pretext
3 src William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · U.S. Navy · Spanish Empire · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1898-02-15 | USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever
3 src William Randolph Hearst · Joseph Pulitzer · New York Journal · New York World · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1897-09-10 | Lattimer Massacre - 19 Unarmed Immigrant Strikers Killed by Sheriff's Posse
5 src Sheriff James Martin · Luzerne County deputies · United Mine Workers · Immigrant miners · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield
3 src William McKinley · Nelson Dingley Jr. · Republican Party · Industrial trusts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1896-11-03 | McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model
3 src William McKinley · Mark Hanna · Standard Oil · John D. Rockefeller · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power
3 src William Jennings Bryan · Democratic National Convention · Populist Party · Eastern banking interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-05-27 | Supreme Court In Re Debs Decision Upholds Federal Injunctions Against Strikes
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Justice David Josiah Brewer · Eugene V. Debs · Federal Judiciary · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-01 | J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems
4 src J.P. Morgan · J.P. Morgan & Company · Southern Railway · Erie Railroad · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1894-05-11 | Pullman Strike Begins After Company Town Wage Cuts Without Rent Reductions
6 src George Pullman · Eugene V. Debs · American Railway Union · Grover Cleveland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1894-02-07 | Cripple Creek Miners Strike Achieves Rare Victory Through Governor Intervention
3 src Western Federation of Miners · Governor Davis Hanson Waite · Colorado State Militia · John Calderwood · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-05-15 | Western Federation of Miners Founded After Coeur d'Alene Massacre
3 src Western Federation of Miners · Butte miners · Coeur d'Alene strikers · Mining industry workers | confirmed | |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
3 src U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency | confirmed | |
| 1892-11-08 | New Orleans General Strike: 30,000 Workers Achieve Interracial Labor Victory
3 src Workingmen's Amalgamated Council · Triple Alliance · New Orleans Board of Trade · American Federation of Labor | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-11 | Coeur d'Alene Miners Strike Violence Triggers Martial Law, 600 Imprisoned Without Trial
3 src Western Federation of Miners · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Idaho National Guard · U.S. Army · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-06 | Homestead Strike Battle Between Workers and Pinkerton Agents Leaves 10 Dead
7 src Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1892-07-01 | Carnegie Steel Company Formed Through Massive Vertical Integration Consolidation
3 src Andrew Carnegie · Henry Clay Frick · Carnegie Steel Company | confirmed | |
| 1892-01-01 | Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions
3 src Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Allan Pinkerton · Corporate employers · State Governments · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1890-07-02 | Sherman Antitrust Act Passed but Designed for Non-Enforcement Against Monopolies
5 src Senator John Sherman · President Benjamin Harrison · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
3 src Coal Mining Companies · Coal and Iron Police · Pennsylvania Coal Operators | confirmed | |
| 1886-12-08 | American Federation of Labor Founded on Craft Union Model Excluding Unskilled Workers
3 src Samuel Gompers · Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions · Knights of Labor · Craft unions | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-10 | Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The Corporate Personhood Precedent That Never Was
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Morrison Waite · J.C. Bancroft Davis (Court Reporter) · Southern Pacific Railroad · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1886-05-04 | Haymarket Affair Bombing and Police Violence Trigger Massive Anti-Labor Backlash
4 src Chicago Police Department · Albert Parsons · Lucy Parsons · August Spies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1886-03-25 | Railroad Commission Cases: State Regulation Affirmed with Corporate Property Rights Caveat
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Mississippi Legislature · Farmers' Loan & Trust Company · Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1886-01-01 | Knights of Labor Reaches Peak Membership of 700,000 Before Rapid Collapse
3 src Terence V. Powderly · Knights of Labor · Jay Gould · American workers | confirmed | |
| 1882-12-19 | Roscoe Conkling's Fraudulent Argument for Corporate Personhood in San Mateo County v. Southern Pacific
4 src Roscoe Conkling · U.S. Supreme Court · Southern Pacific Railroad · San Mateo County · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-05-06 | Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating
3 src Chester A. Arthur · U.S. Congress · Chinese immigrant workers · Labor unions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1882-01-02 | Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure
5 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel C. T. Dodd · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1881-04-01 | Garfield Launches Investigation of Star Route Postal Fraud Scheme
3 src James A. Garfield · Thomas J. Brady · Stephen W. Dorsey · Chester A. Arthur · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1880-01-01 | Pullman Company Town Established as Model of Corporate Paternalistic Control
3 src George Pullman · Pullman Palace Car Company · Company town workers | confirmed | |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src Richard P. Bland · William B. Allison · Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1877-07-16 | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Erupts Across Nation, Federal Troops Deployed Against Workers
5 src Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Army · Railroad workers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
4 src Pinkerton Detective Agency · Franklin B. Gowen · Philadelphia & Reading Railroad · James McParlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1875-01-01 | Carnegie Opens Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Introduces Bessemer Process at Scale
3 src Andrew Carnegie · Edgar Thomson Steel Works | confirmed | |
| 1874-01-20 | Congress Repeals Salary Grab Act After Public Outrage Over Corruption
3 src U.S. Congress · Ulysses S. Grant · Elihu Washburne | confirmed | |
| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · South Improvement Company | confirmed | |
| 1870-01-10 | Standard Oil Company Incorporated in Ohio by John D. Rockefeller
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · Samuel Andrews · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic
3 src Jay Gould · James Fisk · President Ulysses S. Grant · Abel Corbin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1868-03-04 | Erie War Escalates - Gould and Fisk Flee to Jersey with $7 Million in Watered Stock
4 src Jay Gould · James Fisk · Daniel Drew · Cornelius Vanderbilt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1867-01-01 | Vanderbilt Consolidates New York Central Railroad - Creates First Giant Railroad System
3 src Cornelius Vanderbilt · New York Central Railroad · Hudson River Railroad · Harlem Railroad | confirmed | |
| 1850-08-22 | Allan Pinkerton Founds North-Western Police Agency, Precursor to Private Intelligence State
2 src Allan Pinkerton · Edward Rucker · Pinkerton National Detective Agency · Illinois Central Railroad | confirmed |