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Oil in PA
The Pennsylvania oil rush was a boom in petroleum production which occurred in northwestern Pennsylvania -
Homestead Act
Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence -
Homestead Strike
Known as the Homestead Steel Strike or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike -
National Labor Union State
The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL -
Typerwriter Invented
Typewriters had been invented as early as 1714 by Henry Mill and reinvented in various forms throughout the 1800s. -
Transcontinental Railroad Built
The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. -
Airbrake Invented
Founded on September 28, 1869 by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. -
Telephone Invented
They were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson -
Phonograph Invented
Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back. -
B&O Railroad Strike
The B&O became the first company to operate a locomotive built in America, with the "Tom Thumb" in 1829. -
Lightbulb Invented
Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880 -
Haymarket Square Riot
The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886. -
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. -
Forest Reserve Act
A law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States, it pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government -
Bessemer Process Discovered
Inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter. -
Carnegie Sells tp J.P. Morgan
Carnegie was given the chance to make good on his word when he sold his company to a group of investors headed by J.P. Morgan for $400 million. -
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Ohio businessman John D. Rockefeller entered the oil industry in the 1860s -
Standard Oil Dissolved by Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling that it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Court Orders Standard Oil to Dissolve. Share.
Standard Oil was created in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller -
Gospel of Wealth Published
An article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
