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After losing everything she new and loved to the Chicago Fire, she became a major contributor to the child labor movement.
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The Bessemer Process was a steel making process.
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Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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John D. Rockefeller and his partners created the Excelier refinery near the Cuyahoga River which would eventually dominate the oil industry.
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The transcontinental railroad was completed.
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Christopher Sholes created the standard QWERTY keyboard.
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The Credit Mobilier Scandal involved the ripping off of money from the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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Alexander Graham Bell made the first communication by telephone.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
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Alexander Graham Bell created the Bell Telephone Company.
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Munn was involved in questioning whether Illinois had the authority to regulate the prices charged by grain elevators.
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Thomas Edison created the first incandescent light bulb.
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During the Haymarket riot, many workers went on strike, but the crowd was soon dispersed after a bomb was set off in the crowd of police.
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This act gave the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commision) authority to regulate the growing railroad industry.
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This act kept any one business from monopolizing any one industry. It allowed Congress to oversee commerce.
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Workers at the Carnegie Steel Company went on strike because the union was going to be broken up. The National Guard had to break up the strike.
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The Socialist Democrat organized the first Union: the American Railway Union.
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The first nation-wide strike that started an era of heightened tension between workers and their industries.
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J.P. Morgan founded the U.S. Steel Corporation after buying the Carnegie Steel Company and it is still the country's leading steel producer.
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Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company.
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The Wright Brothers flew the first airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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Lochnor was accused of violating the labor laws.
