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Mother Jones
After losing everything she new and loved to the Chicago Fire, she became a major contributor to the child labor movement. -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process was a steel making process. -
Edwin Drake
Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller and his partners created the Excelier refinery near the Cuyahoga River which would eventually dominate the oil industry. -
Transcontinental Railroad
The transcontinental railroad was completed. -
Christopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes created the standard QWERTY keyboard. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
The Credit Mobilier Scandal involved the ripping off of money from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell made the first communication by telephone. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell created the Bell Telephone Company. -
Munn v. Illinois
Munn was involved in questioning whether Illinois had the authority to regulate the prices charged by grain elevators. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison created the first incandescent light bulb. -
Haymarket Riot
During the Haymarket riot, many workers went on strike, but the crowd was soon dispersed after a bomb was set off in the crowd of police. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act gave the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commision) authority to regulate the growing railroad industry. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act kept any one business from monopolizing any one industry. It allowed Congress to oversee commerce. -
Homestead Strike
Workers at the Carnegie Steel Company went on strike because the union was going to be broken up. The National Guard had to break up the strike. -
Eugene Debbs
The Socialist Democrat organized the first Union: the American Railway Union. -
Pullman Strike
The first nation-wide strike that started an era of heightened tension between workers and their industries. -
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan founded the U.S. Steel Corporation after buying the Carnegie Steel Company and it is still the country's leading steel producer. -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. -
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers flew the first airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. -
Lochnor V. NY
Lochnor was accused of violating the labor laws.
