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Invented by alexander graham bell, replaced telegraph
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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel
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First oil boom in US, made jobs and money
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Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
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2000 mile RR across US built by Immagrants
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movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform
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MAde writing things easier, gave women a job to do.
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new railroad industry and invented the first triple-valve air-brake system for railcar use.
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founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland, Ohio in 1870 and got to a monopoly
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Strikes and protests for raises in wage, put down by state malitias.
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Thomas edison perfects the fillament making lightbulb practicle for use
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Turned into a riot when someone threw a bomb at police
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US reminder of the liberties and freedoms that the country was founded on, created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
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Book written by andrew carnagie
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law that allowed the U.S. President to set aside lands as national forests.
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the more-skilled union members reacted with a strike designed to protect their historic position
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nationwide railroad strike in the United States
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Rockefeller had monopoly so they broke it into 33 smaller companies
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like the title says
