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Unable to achieve more than minimal success with their respective patents and processes, the two companies pooled their resources in 1866, and thereafter steel production expanded rapidly
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he was the first to drill oil
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was the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL lead by William Sylvis
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this became known as the Chisholm trail
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this machine mimicked the appearance of typeset pages by impressing one inked character into a page at a time
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Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse
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this created the transcontinental railroad
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by the 1880's, his Standard Oil controlled nearly 90% of the US refineries and pipeline
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He figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders by creating this machine with two needles one for recording and one for playback
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the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Striking workers would not allow any of the trains to roll until this third wage cut was revoked.
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He opposed the immigration of Chinese workers to the US. He was a nativist. He argued that immigrants took jobs away from native-born Americans and drove down wages
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he sought to build a national federation of trade unions dedicated to these principles. He immediately threw himself into the organization's first big effort support of an eight-hour workday.
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a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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given to the US from france as a symbol of freedom and democracy
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that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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law that allowed the president to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain
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The Act makes it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse matter of any kind into the navigable waters, of the United States without a permit
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this created the US Steel corporation
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the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
