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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vander was a man whose industry special was the railroad. -
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Gilded age
It was during a time of corruption in the 1870s and gave it important reading of the social and political -
John D Rockefeller
He was a man who founded an oil company and was considered the richest, who founded the University of Chicago. -
Homestead Steel Strike
Steelworkers were calling strikes on Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick since they were given cuts, as well as fighting with Henry. -
Pullman Strike
George Pullman and his workers, influence to convince a quarter million railroad workers around the country to walk off their jobs with the Pullman workers shutting down rail traffic from Chicago to the West Coast. -
Bread and roses strike
United workers from 51 different nationalities, when the workers earned heir paychecks, they had a short pay, which 14,000 workers went into the streets and commanded their strikes, to which 25,000 workers from other industries went in as well.