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#Gilded-Age

Events indexed under #Gilded-Age — 50 entries in the record.

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