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Congress passed the Homestead Act, which allowed anyone including former slaves, women, and immigrants to claim up to 160 acres on the Great Plains for a $10 filing fee. -
John D. Rockefeller formed the standard oil company with his brother and business partners. The success of this business made Rockefeller one of the world's first billionaires. -
Carnegie left the railroad business and turned his attention to steel production. He opened his first steel mill, the "J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works" in 1875 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. -
Blamed for setting off the economic depression that lasted from 1873 to 1879. This period was called the Great Depression. Started with a problem in Europe, when the stock market crashed. -
Gave the president power to divide Indian reservations into privately owned homesteads.
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Workers at the B&O station responded to the announcement of 10 percent wage cuts for the 3rd time in a year, by uncoupling the locomotives in the station, confining them in the roundhouse, and declaring that no trains would leave Martinsburg unless the cut was eliminated -
Prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country. This act was not lifted until 1943 during WWII -
President Chester Arthur signs the act that provided that federal government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that government employees be selected through competitive exams. -
Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labour movement's struggle for recognition. -
An industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents