The Gilded Age 1877-90

Question 1

Alexander Graham Bell creates the telephone

Answer 1

1876

Question 2

Edison Electronic Company was set up

Answer 2

1878

Question 3

Setting up of Knights of Labour

Answer 3

1869

Question 4

National Railroad strike

Answer 4

1877

Question 5

Setting up of AFL

Answer 5

1885

Question 6

Haymarket bomb outrage

Answer 6

1886

Question 7

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 7

1882

Question 8

Bill passed by Congress putting ban on foreign contract labour

Answer 8

1885

Question 9

Unveiling of Statue of Liberty

Answer 9

1886

Question 10

Setting up of American Protective Association

Answer 10

1887

Question 11

Ida B. Wells article exposing evils of lynching

Answer 11

1892

Question 12

Dawes Act

Answer 12

1887

Question 13

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 13

1890

Question 14

Joseph McCoy devised a route whereby cattle could be driven north from southern Texas to Abilene

Answer 14

1867

Question 15

Philip D Armour established a meatpacking business in Chicago

Answer 15

1868

Question 16

Turner essay

Answer 16

1893

Question 17

Acquisition of Hawaii as a naval base

Answer 17

1887

Question 18

Pan-American conference

Answer 18

1889

Question 19

Mahan’s book ‘The Influence of Sea Power Upon History’

Answer 19

1890