Number the events of the Railroad Era below in the order in which they occurred.

_1. U. S towns establish railroad time.

_2. Congress passes the interstate commerce act.

_3. First transcontinental railroad created

_4. Pullmancar workers launch violent strike.

_5. Farmers form the Grange to address railroad abuses

_6. Munn v. Illinois gives states the right to regulate railroads

_7. Supreme court rules ICC cannot set maximum railroad rate.

_8. Railroads financial problems prompt nationwide evonomic panic.

The other respondent gave some nice information - - I'll line things up in order and correct one error in that answer's dates. (The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is in view with this question, not the 1918 action in which Congress adopted railroad time zones.)

#1. First transcontinental railroad created (1863-69)

#2. Farmers form the Grange to address railroad abuses (1873)

#3. Munn v. Illinois gives states the right to regulate railroads (1876)

#4. U. S towns establish railroad time (1883)

#5. Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

#6. Railroads' financial problems prompt nationwide economic panic (1893)

#7. Pullman car workers launch violent strike (1894)

#8. Supreme court rules Interstate Commerce Commission cannot set maximum railroad rate (1897).

The case that came before the Supreme Court was Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co.

1883 - A t exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.

1918 - Congress officially adopted the railroad time zones and put them under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

1863-1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad connected the existing eastern U. S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

1894 - The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States. The strike and boycott shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan.

1873 - The financial crisis, along with falling crop prices, increases in railroad fees to ship crops, and Congress’s reduction of paper money in favor of gold and silver devastated farmers’ livelihoods and caused a surge in Grange membership in the mid-1870s.

1876 - Munn. V Illinois gives states the right to regulate railroads

1897 - The Supreme Court ruled they could not set maximum railroad rights.

1893 - Also known as The Panic of 1893 caused nationwide economic collapse