EXPLORING CONTEXT

timeline

1869

Transcontinental Railroad is finished, connecting the eastern and western halves of the United States.

1875

After meeting Henry Bessemer, Andrew Carnegie opened his first steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1882

The United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending all Chinese immigration for ten years, and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for citizenship.  The Act was extended in 1892 and again in 1902. 

1889

Thomas Edison companies, with companies for lightbulbs, batteries and more, merged to form Edison General Electric.

1890

Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act outlawing trusts, monopolies and activities that interfered with trade and competition in the marketplace. 

1892

Carnegie steel workers participate in an industrial lockout as a result of wage cuts.  The resulting violent clash between the Pinkertons and the labor activists represented a loss for unionization.

1896

The U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson set the concept of “separate but equal” into law, laying the groundwork for Jim Crow to spread throughout (mainly) the South.

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