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Bessemer Proceess
The Bessemer process is patented, paving the way for the mass production of steel and a new industrial age in America. Industrial process for the manufacture of steel from molten pig iron -
Edwin L. Drake Striking Oil
Edwin L. Drake strikes oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania , marking the first successful oil well and the beginning of the commercial use of oil. -
Transcontinental Railroad
Workers finish construction on the trancontinental railroad, the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts. -
Great Railroad Strike
Dangerous working confitions and wage cuts spark violent rotests by railway workers in the Great Railroad Strike -
Standard Oil Trust
Samuel Dodd and John Rockefeller from the Standard Oil Trust, which would soon dominate the nation's oil industry. -
Canadians Railways
The Canadian Pacific Railway opens, linking eastern and western Canada. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Striike leads President Cleveland to use federal force against striking workers.
