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bessemer process discovered
made the first inexpesive steel -
oil in PA
first big oil boom in the united states -
Homestead act
encouraged western migiration by providing settlers with 160 acres -
national labor union started
it was the first labor union in the united states -
type writer invented
speed up writing which helped news spread faster -
first tanscontinental rail road built
revolutized settlement and the economy of the west -
airbreak invented
helped make train travel safer -
standard oil company started
American oil company that was the largest in the world -
telephone invented
revolunized communication forever -
B and O railroad strike
most volient strike at that time in the nation -
phonograph invented
first time music or words were stored -
lighbuld invention
invention of eletricity for the first time -
haymarket square riot
labor rally turned into riot after a bomb was thrown at the police -
statue of liberty
gift from france to celebrate the friendship during revoluntary war -
gospel of weath published
desrcibed the importance of philantrophy of the upper class -
forest reserve act
gave the president the power to set aside forest reserves -
homestead strike
industrial strike that turned volient agaist strickers and private security -
Pullman strike
a wide spread strike that was put down by the federal goverment -
carnegie sells to J.P. Morgan
largest industrail take over at that time in history -
standard oil dissolved by supreme court
supreme court ordered the disbandment of standard oil because it was agaist the sherman antitrust act
