The Gilded Age

Part I: Growth and Prosperity

Industrial and Economic Growth

The New York Central Railroad

Cornelius VanderbiltThe original Grand Central Terminal, New York

Industrial and Economic Growth

Andrew Carnegie

birthplace

Carnegie Steel Company

Industrial and Economic Growth

John D. Rockefeller

Industrial and Economic Growth

Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company

kerosene lantern

The Gilded Age

Part 2: Politics

Rutherford B. Hayes, President, 1877-1881

James A. Garfield,President, 1881

Assassinated by Charles Guiteau, July 2, 1881

Charles Guiteau, hanged June 2, 1882

Chester A. Arthur,President, 1881-1885

Signed Pendleton Civil Service Act into law

Election of 1884

Grover Cleveland, Democrat James G. Blaine, Republican

Winner

Election of 1888

Winner

Grover Cleveland, Democrat Benjamin Harrison, Republican

1890: The “Billion-Dollar Congress”

• Sherman Silver Purchase Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• McKinley Tariff

Senator John ShermanSenator William McKinley

The Populist Movement

A local Farmer’s Alliance

Election of 1892

Winner

Benjamin Harrison, Republican

Grover Cleveland, Democrat

Election of 1892

Panic of 1893

Wall Street in 1893

1896: The Democrats

Democratic National Convention, 1896

Williams Jennings Bryan

Election of 1896

William McKinley, Republican

William Jennings Bryan, Democrat

Winner