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The main goal with the granger laws was to regulate a fare price on the railroad and grain elevator companies after the civil war. The granger laws were passed in the 1860's through the 870's in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.

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The Air brake was a system that made braking for trains quicker and safer. It was invented by George Westinghouse Jr.

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The Railroad strike of 1877 began on July 17th, 1877 in Martinsburg, west Virginia. It was cause because the works wage was reduced twice in the past year. The workers didn't let any trains pass until the recent pay cut was returned to the workers. The strike lasted until the end of August in 1877 due to federal government intervention.

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The Ability to Travel on Transcontinental Railroad

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The Ability to Travel on Transcontinental Railroad

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The transcontinental railroad allowed people to start using the land in the west to their advantage. Once the two sides of the country were connected you started seeing companies use ads to make people aware of their merchandise and products that were on the other side of the country.

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The knights of Labor was founded in 1869 and was the first major labor organization in the united states. They pushed for eight hour work days and wanted a society where the labors owned the industries they worked for.

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A financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1877, and even longer in France and Britain.

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The rally took place in 1886 near was originally peaceful but it turned into a riot when someone through a bomb at the police.

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U.S. history, widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States in June–July 1894.

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The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897. It deeply affected every sector of the economy.

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The term "Robber Barons" was given to the wealthy industrialist's during the nineteenth century that were looked at for using questionable methods to acquire their wealth.

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President Garfield served as a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1859 to 1861. Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga.

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President Hayes ended Reconstruction within his first year as president by withdrawing federal troops from states still under occupation. He made federal dollars available for infrastructure improvements in the South and appointed Southerners to influential posts in high-level government positions.

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The AFL, or American federation of labor, was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.

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The Credit Mobilier scandal took place between 1872-1873 and damaged the careers of several Gilded Age politicians. Major stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed a company, the Credit Mobilier of America, and gave it contracts to build the railroad.

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An immigration station that opened on January 1st, 1992

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Cleveland was the fist democratic president and also the first and only president to leave office and return a term later.

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An act signed by president Arthur that prohibited all immigration of Chinese Laborers. The act was only meant to last 10 years, but ended up lasting from 1882 till 1943.

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A political party that was started in the south and collapsed once democrat William Bryan was elected.

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The first modern skyscraper was created in 1885 and was a 10-story building in Chicago.

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A term given to an influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from south and eastern Europe, which normally didn't send much immigrants.