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Telephone Invinted
Invented by alexander graham bell, replaced telegraph -
Bessemer process Discovered
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel -
OIl in PA
First oil boom in US, made jobs and money -
HOmestaed act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. -
Transcontinental RR
2000 mile RR across US built by Immagrants -
National labor union
movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform -
Typewriter
MAde writing things easier, gave women a job to do. -
Airbrake invented
new railroad industry and invented the first triple-valve air-brake system for railcar use. -
Standard Oil COmpany started
founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland, Ohio in 1870 and got to a monopoly -
B&O RR strike
Strikes and protests for raises in wage, put down by state malitias. -
Lightbulb Invented
Thomas edison perfects the fillament making lightbulb practicle for use -
Haymarket Square Riot
Turned into a riot when someone threw a bomb at police -
Statue of Liberty
US reminder of the liberties and freedoms that the country was founded on, created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi -
Gospel of wealth published
Book written by andrew carnagie -
Forest Reserve Act
law that allowed the U.S. President to set aside lands as national forests. -
Homestead strike
the more-skilled union members reacted with a strike designed to protect their historic position -
Pullman Strike
nationwide railroad strike in the United States -
Standard oil dissolved
Rockefeller had monopoly so they broke it into 33 smaller companies -
Phonograph Invinted
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carnagie sells company to JP Morgan
like the title says
