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J.P. Morgan
He was born in Hartford, and he was a very succesful banker -
Bessemer Process
Henry Bessemer mass produced steel by injecting air into the molten pig iron to remove impurities. He succeeded by open-hearth steel production. -
J.P. Morgan
He graduated a University in Germany for Mathematics -
Edwin Drake drilled first oil well
In Titusville PA, Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well which started the oil spring. -
Christopher Stoles
In 1868, Chirstopher Stoles patented him machine, the typewriter along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule. -
transcontinental railroad was completed
crews of the central pacific and union pacific railroad lines met and joined tracks at Promontory Summit, Utah. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
In 1872, the government hired the Union Pacific Railroad to build railroad from Omaha Nebraska to Sna Fransisco California. Then, the Union Pacific got in fincial trouble, so they used the government money to pay. Oakes ALmes began selling stock to lower the price the government was paying, -
Thomas Edison
In 1876 Thomas Edison set up an invention plant in Menlo Park Nj. He later invented the telephone in 1877. -
Alexander Graham Bell
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell put a patent on his "the electricl speech machine" or now, the telephone. Then, in 1877, he formed the Bell Telephone Company. -
Haymarket Riot
a bomb exploded among a group of policemen as they attempted to disperse a giant labor rally in the citys haymarket square in Chicago, Illinois. It killed 7 policemen and injured 70 people. Eight people were found guilty for throwing the bomb. -
interstate commerce act
attempted to regulate the growing railway industry in the US. it established the first federal regulatory system -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Regulate large corporations, trust, and eliminate monopolies -
Lochner V. NY Decision
Employees of the union bakeries were working 10 hours a day but italian and jewish imigrants often labored up to 14 hours a day in nonunion shops -
Lochner V. NY Decision
Henry Weissman, a german imigrant, took over editorship of the bakers journal -
Mother Jones
Mother Jones was born in 1830. In 1891 she began to affilate with the United Mine Workers. -
Homestead Strike
The entire workforce of a steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania. Within weeks of the strike many were dead of injured. -
Lochner V. NY Decision
a New York legislature limited bakery work to 10 hours a day 60 hours per week -
Pullman Strike
Pullman Place Car Company in Pullman, Illinois went on strike. The wages were slashed by 1/4 without making cuts in rent, fuel and other costs of living. -
End of the Pullman Strike
125,000 workers had joined the boycott by the time it ended. President Grover Cleverland sent federal troops, who killed three people. The Sherman Antitrust Act was enacted to outlaw the kind. The boycott offically ended on August 8, 1894 -
John D. Rockefeller
John Rockefeller retired -
Henry Ford
left the edison company and became chief engineer of the detroit automobile company -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company -
The wright brothers first flight
on Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina Orville Wright flew the first plane -
John D. Rockefeller
The History of the Standard Oil Company was published about him -
Lochner V. HY Decision
The law was abolished in 1917 -
Interstate Commerce Act
The interstae commerce act was ebolished
