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Patented their strategy so nobody else can use it.
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First person to successfully drill for oil.
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Brought together all all labor unions over the country.
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A stattion in Kansas for trading cattle among other farmers and users of cattle.
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Sholes's invention was patented on this day, and received two more patents after later improvements.
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Creation of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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This was a new braking system for vehicles utilized in this era.
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Fonded Standard Oil of Ohio and it became the most profitable refiner in Ohio.
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While trying to make improvements for thetelephone and telegraph, he made a machine that could record and playback.
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Workers in West Virginia striked after a third wage cut,and would not allow trains to roll until this was revoked.
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Powderly was a participant in the Knights of Labor, then became Secretary, then Head Master.
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Signaled congressional intent to improve waterways to benefit nation by promoting competition amongst transportation modes (particularly railroads).
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American Federation of Labor was reorganized in 1886, and Gompers waselected as the first president.
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The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
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President Cleveland dedicated the statue, a gift from France, in New York Harbor
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The Gospel of Wealth is an article written that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
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The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 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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Sold for $480 million, $13.3 billion today.
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Standard Oil Co. is declared in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, so thecompany is forced to be broken up by the Supreme Court.
