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It is a process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. it is named aftet Henry Bessemer, who took out a patented it in 1855.
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A political activist that was against america’s involvement in world war II and arranged strikes other strikes.
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Edwin drake creates the first oil well along the banks of oil creekin Pennsylvania.
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Anetwork of railroad track that crosses a land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
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He established Standard Oil. He Found the standard oil company in 1870.In his time he was the World’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
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The Crédit Mobilier scandal of 1872-1873 damaged the careers of politicians major stockholders.The Union Pacific Railroad formed the Crédit Mobilier of America, and gave it contracts to build the railroad. They sold or gave shares in this construction to congressmen.
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She founded the Social Democratic Party on may 27,1875 and helped establish the Industrial Workers of the World.
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The first telephone was invented on March 10, 1876 by a genius man named Alexander Graham Bell.
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When talking into the reciever the meedle makes indentations on a tinfoil wraapped drum. This was very important becasue it allowed popular music to be on demand
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It was a riot that started after someone threw a bomb at the police. This was viewed as a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for rights like the 8 hour workday
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This act required that rilroads charge fair rates to customers and publisize them.
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The first United States Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. It is an antitrust law.
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Allowed safe, easy transport of electricity over long distances unlike with direct current.
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The Homestead Strike, also known as the Homestead Steel Strike, was an industrial lockout and strike that started on June 30, 1892.
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The first national strike in United States history.
The entire rail labor force of the nation would walk away from their jobs. Many belonged to the American Railroad Union founded by Eugene V. Debs. -
financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric and other major corporations.
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The Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight on December 7, 1903.
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Founded the Ford company on June 16, 1903. He was an American industrialist who also sponsored of the development of assembly line mass production.
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The crrent QWERTY keyboard was invented in 1980 by Christopher Sholes
