- 1868: Carnegie Steel Company is formed.
- 1869: George Westinghouse invents the airbrake.
- 1870: Standard Oil Company is formed.
- 1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
- 1879: Thomas Edison invents the electric light.
- 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1883: Brooklyn Bridge is completed.
- 1886: The American Federation of Labor is founded.
- 1889: Jane Addams founds Hull House.
- 1890: North American Women's Suffrage Association is founded.
- The Sherman Antitrust Act.
- 1892: The Homestead Strike.
- General Electric Company formed.
- 1894: The Pullman strike.
- 1895: U.S. vs. E. C. Knight Company.
- 1898: Spanish American War
- 1901: US Steel Corporation formed.
- 1904: Panama Canal Zone acquired.
- The National Child Labor Committee is formed.
- 1905: Industrial Workers of the World is formed.
- 1909: NAACP is founded.
- 1913: The Sixteenth Amendment is ratified.
- The Seventeenth Amendment is ratified.
- 1914: The Federal Trade Commission is established.
- The Clayton Antitrust acts are passed.
- United States invades Veracruz in Mexico.
- 1915: The USS Lusitania is sunk by a German submarine
- 1916: Adamson Act
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