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The Bessemer process is patented, paving the way for the mass production of steel and a new industrial age in America. Industrial process for the manufacture of steel from molten pig iron
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Edwin L. Drake strikes oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania , marking the first successful oil well and the beginning of the commercial use of oil.
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Workers finish construction on the trancontinental railroad, the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts.
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Dangerous working confitions and wage cuts spark violent rotests by railway workers in the Great Railroad Strike
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Samuel Dodd and John Rockefeller from the Standard Oil Trust, which would soon dominate the nation's oil industry.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway opens, linking eastern and western Canada.
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Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act
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The Pullman Striike leads President Cleveland to use federal force against striking workers.
