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Alexander Graham transmits a voice over a wire. Changes the world forever.
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Workers walk out shutting dawn thousands of miles of RR track
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Cyrus McCormick introduces the Mechanical Harvester
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Railroads introduced and implemented new standardized time zones
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To reduce government corruption, an examination system was introduced when selecting federal civil servants
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A strike in Haymarket that ended with a bomb explosion that killed 6 police officers. Discredited the Worker Unions' movement
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Henry Frick closes a factory for Carnegie Steel and locks workers out when negotiations go South.
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A strike at Pullman Company when George Pullman refused to reduce rent in the company when there were wage cuts
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Federal Troops were sent to shut down the Pullman Strike
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Teddy Roosevelt became US secretary of the navy. He established the Rough Riders as the First Cavalry in the Spanish American War