Industrial Revolution

  • Bessemer process

    Bessemer process

    The maufacture of iron and steel could be used without a furnace or fuel
  • Lochner v. NY Decision

    Lochner v. NY Decision

    Provided the clearest and most influential application of thia concept in judicial invalidation of a state regulatory law
  • Edwin Drake

    Edwin Drake

    He put the first commercial oil into production in Pennsylvania
  • Transcontinental Railroad completed

    Transcontinental Railroad completed

    Worked westward from Omaka, Nabraska to meet the rails of central pacific .
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    A bomb exploded among a group of policemen as they attempted to disperse a giant lab or rally in the cities haymarket square.
  • Christopher Sholes

    Christopher Sholes

    typewriter keyboard arrangement still ives on through the modern computer keyboard
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller

    He established standard oil.
  • Mother Jones

    Mother Jones

    from 1871-1924 she traveled far to fight for decent wages,
  • Credit Mobilier Scadal

    Credit Mobilier Scadal

    With the U.S. finance company construction contracts were sold by union pacific for vast sums of money
  • Munn v. Illinois

    Munn v. Illinois

    Involved the question of weather Illinois had the authority to regulate the prices charged by grain elevators
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    Examined a six year old without eye sight and hearing at nineteen months of age
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act

    Attemot to regulate growing railroad industries in the U.S established the Interstate Commerce Company, first federal regulatory commition.
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    labor disputes continued with homestead strike becoming a rally point for organized labor
  • Pullman Strike

    Pullman Strike

    Threatened rail service and mail delivery and was the first national strike
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    They flew their first flight in kitty Halk, North Carolina
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    The supreme court ruled the standard oil co. which was in violation and was ordered to break up.
  • Eugene Debs

    Eugene Debs

    Democrat woodrow wilson was elected persident defeating progressive perty canidate Theodore Roosevelt, incumbent republican William Howard Taft, andsocialist Eugene Debs.
  • J.P. Morgan

    J.P. Morgan

    Built the largest private bank in the United States.
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    The name which under which the build was approved by.