Interactive Timeline – 1868-1901

correct incorrect May Horatio Alger publishes Ragged Dick Or, Street Life in New York

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Meiji Restoration restores direct imperial rule in Japan and begins modernization process

correct incorrect Dec Knights of Labor founded in Baltimore

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Suez Canal Opens linking Mediterranean and Red Sea

correct incorrect John D. Rockefeller and partners establish Standard Oil Company

correct incorrect Mar Paris Commune generates massive newspaper coverage and generates fear of Communist revolution in United States

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Paris Commune takes over French capital for two months until vanquished by government forces

correct incorrect Aug Aaron Montgomery Ward pioneers nation's first mail-order catalogue

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Stock market panic sets off worldwide economic depression that lasts until 1878

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Jennie Jerome marries Lord Randolph Churchill, the first of scores of transatlantic Gilded Age marriages of wealthy American heiresses to European aristocrats

correct incorrect Jul Great Railroad Strike sparks violence and nationwide general strike

correct incorrect Mar Henry Demarest Lloyd publishes "The Story of a Great Monopoly," an exposé of Standard Oil

correct incorrect May 4 Bombing in Chicago's Haymarket Square

correct incorrect Dec Craft unions organize American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan Karl F. Benz, German engineer, patents first commercial automobile

correct incorrect Jan Edward Bellamy publishes Looking Backward: 2000–1887, an internationally influential utopian novel

correct incorrect Jun Andrew Carnegie publishes "The Gospel of Wealth," which justifies industrial capitalism's benefits for society, partly through philanthropy

correct incorrect Jan United Mine Workers organized as union

correct incorrect Jul Sherman Antitrust Act aimed at dismantling monopolies inadvertently sets off flurry of corporate mergers

correct incorrect Jun Homestead Lockout begins, resulting in the crushing of Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers

correct incorrect Jul The People's (Populist) Party founded in Omaha, Nebraska

correct incorrect Jun Eugene V. Debs organizes American Railway Union, an industrial union

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Wall Street panic precipitates international economic depression that lasts until 1897

correct incorrect May The Pullman Strike, led by the American Railway Union, begins; ends in August with President Cleveland's use of federal troops

correct incorrect Sep Henry Demarest Lloyd publishes Wealth Against Commonwealth, an attack on Standard Oil and unbridled capitalism

correct incorrect Jan United States v. E. C. Knight Co. rules that federal government can regulate only monopolies involved in interstate commerce

correct incorrect Feb U.S. Steel becomes world's first billion-dollar industry