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Christopher Sholes
Christopher Sholes was an inventer who invented the type writer. He had been involved in the print business for a while and was an editor of "Wisconsin Enquirer" in Madison, Wisconson. -
Mother Jones
Mother Jones was an American labour leader. She traveled across the country and supported strikes against work labour. -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process was the first inexpensive to mass-produce steel. It was named after Henry Bessemer, however he was not the first to think of this idea. He was the first to industrialize it. -
Edwin Drake
Edwin Drake found an ol well that soon became the first successful oil well. However oil wells would flood with water when they were dug too deep. He came up with the idea to place a tube like object in the well where they dug so no water could flow in. -
Henry Ford
Ford was an American industrialist who revolutionized methods of an assamebly-line. He helped improve and speed up the process of shipping goods out. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
It started in 1872 and was about how people made up conterfeit papers by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
When the transcontinental railroad was finished, there was a railroad that was built westward 1,006 miles from Omaha, Nebraska. to meet the Central Pacific, which was being built eastward from Sacramento, California. The two railroads were connected in Utah on May 10, 1869 -
J.P. Morgan
He was a banker, as was his father. In 1871 he commited to a banking partner ship with a man by the name of Anthony Drexel -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an American inventer and also a teacher to the deaf. He invented the telephone and also refined the phonograph. -
Munn v. Illinois
The U.S. Supreme Court seized the power of the government to regulate private industries. They placed a maximum amount that private companies could sell storage for and transport agriculture products. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was not the first to think of the idea of the light bulb. He was the first to make a "commercially viable" one. He also made improvements and made light bulbs that worked better and more effecient. -
Haymarket Riot
This riot, also called Haymarket Affair or Haymarket Massacre was between orkers protesting and police. Workers were protseting for more "workers' rights". The wanted to be treated more fairly. -
Interstate Commerce Act
This act established the Interstate Commerce Comission to regulate railways. Then other "parties" decided to regulate their railways as well. -
John. D. Rockefelier
He was an American industrialist and philanthropist and he founded when of the most dominating oil companies called the "Standard Oil Company" -
Sherman Antitrust Act
This act basically lowered the power that interfered with trade so that the amount of economis competition was reduced. "One of the act’s main provisions outlaws all combinations that restrain trade between states or with foreign nations" -
Homestead Strike
This was when there was a very succesful steel company called the Carnegie Steel Company that had an owner who tried to reduce the wager of all of the workers. The owner was not able to so instead he fired everyone and locked them out of the factory and hired new workers. The workers who were fired rioted. -
Pullman Strike
The strike started on May 11, 1894 and lasted until July 20, 1894. It was a strike and boycott on the railroad, it caused severe railway traffic. It happened because workers; pay was reduced by about 25% and their rent was not reduced. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers were the first people to succesfully build and fly a powered, sustained, and controlled airplaned. -
Lochner v. NY Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court got"renewed" a law and only allowed a maximum of 10 hours of work in the baking trade. By the 1930's that law became constitutional. -
Eugene Debs
He was nominated for president in 1908, 1912, 1916, and 1920. He refused the nomination in 1916. In 1920 he got the highest amount of votes, 915,000 votes. However he was serving time in jail.
