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| 314449038 | 1870 | John D. rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil | 0 | |
| 314449039 | 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone | 1 | |
| 314449040 | 1878 | Knights of Labor becomes a national organization | 2 | |
| 314449041 | 1879 | Thomas Edison invents the light bulb | 3 | |
| 314449042 | 1880 | James A. Garfield elected President | 4 | |
| 314449043 | 1881 | GArfield assassinated; Chester A. Arthur becomes president | 5 | |
| 314449044 | 1881 | Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor | 6 | |
| 314449045 | 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act | 7 | |
| 314449046 | 1883 | Pendleton Civil Service Act | 8 | |
| 314449047 | 1886 | Haymarket Riot in Chicago | 9 | |
| 314449048 | 1886 | American Federation of LAbor founded by Samuel Gompers | 10 | |
| 314449049 | 1887 | Interstate Commerce Commission established to regulate railroads | 11 | |
| 314449050 | 1887 | Dawes Act allows president to break Native American reservations into individual allotments | 12 | |
| 314449051 | 1890 | BAttle of Wounded Knee; closing frontier | 13 | |
| 314449052 | 1890 | Sherman Antitrust Act | 14 | |
| 314449053 | 1892 | Homestead Steel Strike | 15 | |
| 314449054 | 1892 | Ellis Island opens | 16 | |
| 314449055 | 1892 | Populist party formed | 17 | |
| 314449056 | 1893 | American economy suffers a major depression | 18 | |
| 314449057 | 1894 | Eugene V. debs leads Pullman strike | 19 | |
| 314449058 | 1896 | the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson establishes the constitutionality of segregation by state law | 20 | |
| 314449059 | 1901 | McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President | 21 | |
| 314449060 | 1901 | J. Pierpont Morgan buys Carnegie's steel holdings | 22 | |
| 314449061 | 1902 | Roosevelt presidency attacks Northern Securities Company as illegal monopoly | 23 | |
| 314449062 | 1902 | Roosevelt intervenes in anthracite coal strike | 24 | |
| 314449063 | 1906 | Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is published | 25 | |
| 314449064 | 1906 | The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food & Drug Act | 26 | |
| 314449065 | 1908 | William Howard Taft elected president | 27 | |
| 314449066 | 1909 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff | 28 | |
| 314449067 | 1911 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | 29 | |
| 314449068 | 1912 | Woodrow Wilson elected president | 30 | |
| 314449069 | 1913 | Federal Reserve Act | 31 | |
| 314449070 | 1913 | 16th and 17th Amendments ratified | 32 | |
| 314449071 | 1914 | Clayton antitrust act | 33 | |
| 314449072 | 1914 | Federal Trade Commission established | 34 | |
| 314449073 | 1914 | Keating-Owen Child Labor Act | 35 | |
| 314449074 | Andrew Carnegie | A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded a Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry. | 36 | |
| 314449075 | John D. Rockefeller | Entered into the oil refining business following the Civil War and in 1870 formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio; created the Standard Oil Trust and monopolized the industry for the next 30 years | 37 | |
| 314449076 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | First made his fortune in steamship industry and acquired the nickname "Commodore"; built the New York Central Railroad and by 1869 had combined a group of small lines into one railroad system | 38 | |
| 314449077 | J. Pierpont Morgan | Accumulated a fortune by buying into a business, reorganizing it, and making huge profits; bought out Carnegie and combined various steel companies to form US Steel Corporation | 39 | |
| 314449078 | Henry Ford | Revolutionized auto manufacturing by using an assembly line that permitted the mass production of cars | 40 | |
| 314449079 | Thomas Edison | invented the lightbulb, "Wizard of Menlo Park" | 41 | |
| 314449080 | Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone | 42 | |
| 314449081 | Herbert Spencer | English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903); wrote Social Studies | 43 | |
| 314449082 | Horatio Alger | Popular novelist during the Industrial Revolution who wrote "rags to riches" books praising the values of hard work | 44 | |
| 314449083 | Henry George | He wrote Progress and Poverty in 1879, which made him famous as an opponent of the evils of modern capitalism. | 45 | |
| 314449084 | Edward Bellamy | In 1888, he wrote Looking Backward, 2000-1887, a description of a utopian society in the year 2000. | 46 | |
| 314449085 | Henry Demarest Lloyd | He wrote the book "Wealth Against Commonwealth" in 1894. It was part of the progressive movement and the book's purpose was to show the wrong in the monopoly of the Standard Oil Company. | 47 | |
| 314449086 | Jacob Riis | A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890. | 48 | |
| 314449087 | Lincoln Steffens | Writing for McClure's Magazine, he criticized the trend of urbanization with a series of articles under the title Shame of the Cities. | 49 | |
| 314449088 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. The book was fiction but based on the things Sinclair had seen. | 50 | |
| 314449089 | Ida Tarbell | A leading muckraker and magazine editor, she exposed the corruption of the oil industry with her 1904 work A History of Standard Oil. | 51 | |
| 314449090 | Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes | 52 | |
| 314449091 | Uriah Stephens | U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful early national union. | 53 | |
| 314449092 | Terence V. Powderly | a highly visible national spokesman for the working man as head of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893 | 54 | |
| 314449093 | Samuel Gompers | He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers. | 55 | |
| 314449094 | Eugene V. Debs | Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over. | 56 | |
| 314449095 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War | 57 | |
| 314449096 | William Howard Taft | 27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term. | 58 | |
| 314449097 | Gifford Pinchot | head of the U.S. Forest Servic under Roosevelt, who believed that it was possible to make use of natural resources while conserving them | 59 | |
| 314449098 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize | 60 | |
| 314449099 | Oliver H. Kelley | considered the "Father" of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry (more commonly known as "The Grange"). a fraternal organization for American farmers that encouraged farm families to band together for their common economic and political good. | 61 | |
| 314449100 | James B. Weaver | former Civil War general who ran for president with the Greenback Party (1880) and the Populist Party (1892). | 62 | |
| 314449101 | William Jennings Bryan | an American politician, one of the best known orators and lecturers of the era, Because of his faith in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner." | 63 | |
| 314449102 | Robert LaFollette | "Fighting Bob"; Republican Senator from Wisconsin - ran for president under the Progressive Party - proponent of Progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations | 64 | |
| 314449103 | Booker T. Washington | Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." | 65 | |
| 314449104 | W.E.B. DuBois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | 66 | |
| 314449105 | Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation | 67 | |
| 314449106 | Carrie Chapman Catt | Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage. | 68 | |
| 314449107 | Alice Paul | Marched with the suffragist in England , was jailed and went on a hunger strike all to help British woman win the vote. returned home to support the cause of the suffrage for American woman | 69 | |
| 314449108 | P.T. Barnum | the famous and unscrupulous showman, opened the American Museum in New York in 1842, not a showcase for art or nature, but a great freak show populated by midgets, Siamese twins, magicians, and ventriloquists, eventually launching his famous circus | 70 | |
| 314449109 | "Buffalo-Bill" Cody | This former pony express rider and Indian fighter and hero of popular dime novels for children traveled around the U.S. and Europe and put on popular Wild West shows. The shows included re-enactments of Indian battles and displays of horsemanship and riflery | 71 |
