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The Bessemer Process
Henry Bessemer was not the original creator of the bessemer process. It was actually William Kelly, but because he went bankrupt, he sold the patant to Henry Bessemer in 1856. Bessemer made his company, and was able to sell his product for less than other companies in his industry. His steel was the foundation for creation of buildings, and weapons. -
Edwin Drake Strikes Black Gold!
After about 209 days (on an average of three ft. per day) Edwin Drake struck black gold in Titusville, Pennsylvania. His well was producing between 20-40 barrels a day, providing half of the whole world with oil. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was one of America's greatest inventors. He delveloped things like; the light bulb, the phonograph, and the carbon compression telephone. He worked on many projects but is most well known for inventing the lightbulb. The lightbulb used electricity to light the world instead of of kerosene and gasoline. He had 1,093 patents in his entire life. -
Chirstopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes is an inventor. He is most well known for inventing the QWERTY keyboard and typewriters. Along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soules they were given a grant on June 23, 1868. He later created a shift key so that when typing one could use upper and lower case keys. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May !0, 1869 at Promontory Point Utah. Leland Stanford and Thomas Durant drove the final spike in, to complete the East to the Pacific coast railroad. After six years of work and over 20,000 workers of many races( many immagrants) finished the railroad. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
This was a company that finnanced in building railroads. Oakes Ames was a congressman who bought into it, and got other congresman to invest in the company. The investment was good because it was returning at 90%. The comapny was charging twice the cost to build. Then they would build the same sections of railroad to make even more money. -
John D. Rockefeller
He was once the richest man in the world.He was in the oil business and was beginning to replace coal industries. Rockefeller began to give a lot back to public when the Antitrust act came along. He donated money and helped build the Chicago University. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor known for inventing the telephone. He was trying to make a machine that could help deaf people hear better, but it turned into the telephone. He invented this in 1876. Then in 1884 he made the first phone call between Boston and New York City. Because of Graham Bell, telecommuncications has flourished. -
Munn v. Illinois
This was when the state was given the power to regulate certain businesses. But the National Grange argued that it was private property, and the state coould not regulate it.The Supreme court gave the state the power to regulate within their borders -
Mother Jones
She was known as "the most dangerous woman in America". This was because she had a large role and a large say in the American labor movement. She was at a lot of the large union riots through out the country like; Homestead, the Rail strike, and the Coal feilds in Pennsylvania. -
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan was a accountant. He was also the person who merged Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houson Electric Comapny to form GEneral Electric. He then merged steel companies with Andrew Carnegeie and Henry Frick. They formed the United States Steel Corporation. He was aslo the head of the leading bank company at the time, J.P. Morgan and Company. -
Interstate Commerece act
This was a bill reported in 18686 by Shelby M. Cullom to regulate transportation of freight and train passengers. After months of ammending and voting the final vote was: 43-15. The bill was accepted January 14, 1887. -
Haymarket Riot
Because of police brutality during a strike for eight-hour work days, the riots started in Haymarket square in Chicago. The peaceful riot was turned violent when police officers tried to break it up, and a bomb was thrown into the crwod killing seven officers and many protestors. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was a law passed to prohibit Trusts from being made. It was made law on Jly 20, 1890 by President Benjamin Harrison. A trust was when stockholders moved their shares in a company to a set of trustees. This detsroyed competition and effected the consumer while large industries were making more. -
Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie was a controlling steel industry owner. His workers revolted because he was trying to disband the steel workers unions. He was also trying to cut the workers wages. Because of the disagreement between Carnegie, Frick and the workers, the workers hung effigies of Frick and the superintendant of the plant. The plant was shut down because a agreement could not be made between the union and Carnegie. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was when the workers of Pullman Palace Car Company revolted against the president. They revolvted because of how they were treated. They had to live on his land and charged them for everything. As their wages sunk his prices for everything went up. He took the money they owed him from their paychecks, and they had no money because he got all his money back. -
Henry Ford
He founded the well known car company, Ford, in 1903. But because Ford wasn't a licensed car manufacturer, the Assoc. of licensed Car Manufacturers threatend to put Ford out of business. After a six year fight and one appeal Ford won the case. With millons of Model t"s sold Ford became a very popular company. -
Wright Brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to invent flight. They created and invented the first airplane. The plane they invented first flew on Dec. 17 1903. It was in Kitty Hawk, South Carolina. It flew for twelve seconds and went 120 feet. This was the first ever flight in history. -
Lochner v. New York
This was when New York State took Henry Lochner to court for violating the law on hours bakers can work. According to New York the longer bakers worked would cause a greater chance of lung disease. But the court proved Lochner innocent becasue baking was not a issue to helath. -
Eugene Debs
Eugene Debs was an active socialist. He was taken to court and unjustly persecuted for being a socialist. During his trial he is attacking capitalism for his limitation for freedom of speech. He also was fighting for his right to the first ammendment. He fought for what he believed in and ended up serving time in prison. Then he fought America's involvment in WW1.
