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This was extremely nation changing, steel took a positive impact on the world
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This well is now known as the Drake Well
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The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States
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He was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
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He wanted to establish a trading station to make it easier on cattle herders and farmers to trade cattle
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Air brakes were first used on passenger trains. The primary principle involved is the use of compressed air acting through a piston in a cylinder to set block brakes on the wheels.
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the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history
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Was the largest oil refiner of its time
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Started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, it was in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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His favorite invention was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, he figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. In 1877, he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback.
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Was officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s, Terrence Powderly was the most important leader
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Samuel Gompers was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor
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It was a labor protest rally that turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.
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is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City
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an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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is a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain
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was the first federal water pollution act in the United States
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Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in the world of his time
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the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
