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The Pennsylvania oil rush was a boom in petroleum production which occurred in northwestern Pennsylvania
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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
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Known as the Homestead Steel Strike or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike
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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
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Typewriters had been invented as early as 1714 by Henry Mill and reinvented in various forms throughout the 1800s.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Edison lost most of his hearing. Yet this man invented the first machine that could capture sound and play it back.
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The B&O became the first company to operate a locomotive built in America, with the "Tom Thumb" in 1829.
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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
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The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886.
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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.
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A law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain.
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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
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Inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
