Gilded Age Timeline

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Consumer Culture

1800 - 1860

Darwinism

1800 - 1900

Natural Selection

1800 - 1880

Andrew Carnegie

1835 - 1919

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John D. Rockefeller

1839 - 1900

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Department Store

1846 - 1850

Theodore Rooselvelt

1858 - 1919

Urban Growth

1865 - 1900

Knights of Labor

1869

Standard Oil

1870

Mark Twain Publishes: "The Gilded Age"

1873

Alexander Graham Bell - The Telephone

1874

Carnegie Steel

1875

Thomas Eddison - The Lightbulb

1879

Imperialism

1880 - 1920

Taylorism

1880 - 1900

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882

Free Silver

1885 - 1900

Gospel of Wealth

1889

'How The Other Side Lives"

1890

Open Door Policy

1890 - 1910

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1890

Homestead Strike

1892

Cross of Gold

1896

The Maine

1898