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edwin drake
Edwin Drake is the first oil well driller in the United States. Drake created drilling techniques and made Titusville and other northwestern communities very popular. -
John D Rockefeller
A philanthropist, American Industrialist and founder of the Standard Oil Company. The company dominated the oil industry and the first great US Business trust. -
bessemer procces
The first inexpensive industrial procces for the production of steel. The invention was named after Henry Bessemer, even though many people helped invent the procces. -
Cristopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes developed the ever first typewriter, and he would later sell his patent rights to the Remington Arms Company for $12,000. -
Transcontinental railroad completed
The Union pacific and Central pacific railroad presidents met and agreed to make transcontinental railroad travel possible. It linked the US from East to West. -
credit mobiler scandal
the scandal damaged the careers of some politicians. The scandal gave contracts to build railroads and gave or sold shares to congressmen. -
Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs was a socialist candidate for US presidents. He organized a local lodge of brotherhood of locomotive fireman. -
Alexander Graham Bell
he invented the telephone and worked at a school for the deaf while creating the phone. Bell had the first official patent ever granted, but he would have legal challenges resulting in one of the longest patent battles ever. -
Thomas Edison
Built first incandesant light bulb, Phonograph, and motion picture camera. Edison held a world record 1,093 patents and played a big role in introducing modern age electricity. -
Haymarket Riot
A labor protest at Chicago's Haymarket square turned into a riot when somone threw a bomb at the police, causing at least eight people to die that day. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act made the railroads the first industry having federal regulation. The interstate commerce commision was established to regulate railways and other carriers. -
Munn V. Illinois
The US supreme court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries. The case developed from the illinois legislature responding to the pressure of the national grange, a farming associasion. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The act reduced power by interfering with trade and reduced economic competition. The act did not allow trade with the states and foreign nations. -
Mother Jones
A labour organizer widely known in the united states as an agitater for the union rights of coal miners and workers. -
pullman strike
A nationwide railroad strike and boycott in the midwest. That would lead to the government using an injunction to break the strike. -
J.P Morgan
He is an american industrial organizer and one of the most prominent financial figures during the two pre world war decades. He reorganized several major railroads and consolidated major corporations -
Homestead Strike
The strike was the nations strongest trade union the asociasion of iron and steel workers versus one of the new powerful corporations carnegie steel company. -
wright brothers
invented first powered and sustained airplane flight. In two years they then moved past that achievement by building the first fully practical airplane. -
lochner v. NY decision
Supreme court said that a maximum amount of work hours for bakers was unconstitutional. The constitutional does not allow states interfere with employment contracts and its against fourteenth amendmant. -
henry ford
Henry Ford developed the assembly line and made the model T ford. In 1903 he started the Ford moter company. He is the first person to invent the car.
