Gilded Age (1870-1900)

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The Farmers Movement

1867 - 1896

College Football

1869

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Rutgers University football team in 1882

Major League Baseball

1869

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The Baltimore Orioles in 1896

Cornelius Vanderbilt

1870 - 1877

Railroad emipire
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Jacob Riis

1870 - 1892

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Journalist and Photographer during this time people. Showed the nation what the lives of immigrants were like.

John D. Rockefeller

1870 - 1897

Standard oil companies. Wealthiest man to ever live
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Tammany Hall

1870 - 1900

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The Fourth of July

1870

This year was when congress made it a holiday for federal empoyees

The Knights of Labor

1870

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William M. Tweed "Boss Tweed"

1872

Associated with the political machine of Tammany Hall

Election of 1884

1884

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Grover Cleveland won

Andrew Carnegie

1885 - 1900

Carnegie Steel company in Pittsburg
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Mary Elizabeth Lease

1888 - 1900

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Most well known for her work with the Populist Party

Henry Ford

1891 - 1896

Ford's company provided affordable vehicles to the citizens
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JP Morgan

1892 - 1901

Helped with the electric and steel business
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Homestead Strike

June 30, 1892

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Pinkertons

July 6, 1892

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Panic of 1893

1893

Economic depression

Coxey's Army

1894

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Yellow Journalism

1895 - 1898

Cross of Gold Speech

1896

William Jennings Bryant
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Haymarket Square

1897

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Rough Riders

1898

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Election of 1900

1900

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William McKinley won