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Pemberton Mill Collapse
Pemberton Mill was five stories high and located in Lawrence, Massachusetts. On Janurary 10, 1860, the mill collapsed, which killed over 120 workers. The cause of the collapse was the faulty iron pillars that supported the floors. After the collapse, the debries caught fire. Many of the workers were Irish immigrants. This horrible event is considered one of the worse industrial calamities in American history (Pemberton Mill Collapse, 1860). -
Strip mining
Strip minning began near Danville, Illinois in 1866. Iron, steel, and coal production increased 300 percent between the 1870's and the 1880's. By the 1900's coal was supplying more than 100,000 coke ovens in the west (Secure & Reliable Energy Supplies - History of U.S. Coal Use). -
Standard Oil Company
The Standard Oil Company began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By 1885 it had begun to appear in other states, such as: Ohio, Massachusetts, California, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, the Rocky Mountain States, Canada, New Jersey, and New York (Whatever Happened to Standard Oil?). -
The First Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad linked the Eastern Coast to the quickly developing California. This sent the United States on an economic abundance and ended the old ways of traveling. It went along the Oregon, Mormon and California Trails. The new line went along Omaha, Nebraska, followed the Platte River, crossed the Rocky Mountains at South Pass in Wyoming and then through northern Utah and Nevada before crossing the Sierras to Sacramento, California (The First Transcontinental Railroad). -
Bell Telephone Company
The Bell Telephone Company was formed by Gardiner Hubbard. By the end of 1877, there was more than 300,000 telephones in service. Alexander Gram Bell made advancments to the telephone that enabled it to continue being used even today (Telephone History). -
Early Morning
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
James McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on July 10, 1834. While in France, his love for the art grew as he taught others how to draw. He was a very realistic painter. He passed away in London, England on July 17, 1903 (James Whistler Biography). -
Stone and Timber Land Act
The Stone and Timber Land Act authorized the sale of cheap land to timber companys when it was unfit for agricultural uses (FEDERAL FOREST WORK BEGINS 1876-1897). -
Electric Power Generation
Thomas Edison buiilt the first practical use of coal. The fired electric generating station supplied electricy to residents of New York (Secure & Reliable Energy Supplies - History of U.S. Coal Use). -
Communipaw, N.J
Artist: Thomas Moran
Date: 1884
Thomas Moran was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1837. When industrialization took over England and forced his parents out of their jobs, his family and he moved just outside of Philadelphia. He died in 1926 of natural causes after becoming rich from his newfound interest of painting (Thomas Moran Paintings Reproduction and Biography). -
Haymarket Square Riot
On May third workers of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. in Chicago began a strike in hope of gaining a shorter work day. The following day, a large rally formed to protest alleged police brutality. There was supposed to be 20,000 demonstrators at the Haymarket Square, which is where farmers usually sold their produce,but only 1,400 came. At that juncture, a pipe bomb was thrown into the police ranks; the explosion took the lives of seven police (Haymarket Square Riot). -
National Consumers' League
The National Consumers' League was funded by Florence Kelley as a conglomerate organization uniting local consumer leagues from New England, the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest. It worked to promote decent working conditions by encouraging the sale of items produced under a loose set of regulatory guidelines (A Brief Look Back on 100+ Years of Advocacy). -
American Locomotive Company (ALCO)
Many of the other locomotive factories merged with ALCO in 1901. Seven small factory owners thought that it would be a better way to earn more money and produce more locomotives. Seven years later it existed the locomotive industry after discovering that it was unprofitable (Steam Locomotive Builders). -
General Electric Company
General Electric Company built the first alternating current power plant at Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania. It was built to eliminate the difficulties in long-distance direct current transmission for the Webster Coal and Coke Company (Secure & Reliable Energy Supplies - History of U.S. Coal Use). -
National Child Labor Committee
The National Child Labor Committee was organized by a mass meeting of men and women that were concerened about the amount of children working. In 1907, an Act of Congress incorporated it and put the committee into action (The National Child Labor Committee). -
Clayton Antitrust Act
This Act was to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes. It outlawed price discrimination, conditioning sales on exclusive dealing, mergers and acquisitions when they may substantially reduce competition, serving on the board of directors for two competing companies (Clayton Antitrust Act). -
Building a Babylon, Tudor City, N.Y.C
Artist: Martin Lewis
Date: 1929
Martin Lewis was born in Castlemaine, Australia on June 7, 1881. In 1900, he travelled to San Francisco. Responding to the energy and dynamism of the urban environment, he went on to create spirited paintings and drawings of New York, which he interpreted in a positive and optimistic way. Lewis passed away on passed away on Feburary 22, 1962 (Matin Lewis). -
Crash of the Stock Market
This day is known as Black Tuesday. Many investors traded almsot 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in one single day. Billons of dollars were lost and set the United States on a downworld spiral known as the Great Depression (Stock Market Crash of 1929).
