Gold Standard Act passed establishing gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money

Founding of the United States Steel Corporation

Founding of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation

Equitable Life Assurance Scandal

Founding of The American Magazine, a periodical muckraking journal

Panic of 1907 - see below for a more detailed timeline.

Creation of Aldrich Bill

National Citizens' League established

Pujo Trials investigate "money trusts" including J.Pierpont Morgan (from May 1912 to 1913)

Passage of the Federal Reserve Act

Beginning of WWI

End of WWI

Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce examines salaries of railroad executives, NYT publishes findings

Publication of American Corporations and their Executives: A Statistical Inquiry by F.W. Taussig and W.S. Barker

Stock market crash, onset of Great Depression

"Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Compensation of Officers and Directors of Certain Corporations" released

Failed attempt to manipulate stock of United Copper
(see thenewamerican.com/history/47-american/426)

Stocks start to tumble.

National Bank of Commerce announcement that it would stop accepting checks for the Knickerbocker Trust Company, triggering a run of depositors demanding their funds back and the eventual collapse of the Knickerbocker Trust Company

The start of the bank run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company

J. Pierpont Morgan arranged for a number of bankers to provide the then-colossal sum of $23 million to allow the New York Stock Exchange to continue operating

Moore & Schley, a major brokerage, nears collapse because its loans were backed by the Tennesee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company (TC&I). Proposal is made fro U.S. Steel to purchase TC&I.

President Roosevelt approves of the U.S. Steel's acquisition of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company (TC&I)