Guilded Age

  • Bessemer Process

    Bessemer Process

    Made for quick, massly produced steel
  • OIl in Pa

    OIl in Pa

    Provide energy for machines.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Encouraged Western migration by providing land to settlers.
  • national labor union

    national labor union

    Improved working conditions.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter

    Made text easier and faster
  • Airway Brake

    Airway Brake

    More reliable breaking system.
  • transcontinental railroad built

    transcontinental railroad built

    Transportation for goods was quicker.
  • standard oil company started

    standard oil company started

    American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company.
  • telephone was invented

    telephone was invented

    Make communication easier and faster.
  • phonograph invented

    phonograph invented

    Made for recording and reproduction of sound
  • B + O railroad strike

    B + O railroad strike

    Response to the cutting of wages
  • lightbulb was patended

    lightbulb was patended

    provide light to homes, factories, etc. convinience
  • haymarket square riot

    haymarket square riot

    Response to bombing at labor demonstration
  • statue of liberty

    statue of liberty

    Symbolized freedom
  • gospel of wealth published

    gospel of wealth published

    describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
  • forest reserve act

    forest reserve act

    Allowed the president to set aside from the land in the public domain.
  • homestead strike

    homestead strike

    PItted Carnegie Company and managment
  • pullman strike

    pullman strike

    It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland.
  • Carnegie sells to JP Morgan

    Carnegie sells to JP Morgan

    Made alot of money
  • standard oil company was dissolved by supreme court

    standard oil company was dissolved by supreme court

    ruled it a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act