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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones rose to prominence as a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the Mine Workers during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Rockefeller became one of the richest persons in the world through his dominance of the oil and railroad industries. He became a generous philanthropists giving money to his church, education, medical science and public health.
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Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) developed a new method for manufacturing steel. The Bessemer process made possible the manufacture of large amounts of high-quality steel for the first time.
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Edwin L. Drake found oil in what was soon to be the first commercially successful oil well.
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Christopher Shole and a friend, Samuel W. Soulé, were granted a patent for a page-numbering machine.
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The Union Pacific and Central Pacific workers were able to finish the railroad--laying nearly 2,000 miles of track-by 1869.
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Crédit Mobilier was an American finance and construction company established to build the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. This was basically a device that allowed speech to be transmitted electrically.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph First Long-Lasting Incandescant Light Bulb
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Munn vs Illinois was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with corporate rates and agriculture. It allowed states to hold certain businesses within their borders, including railroads, and is commonly known as a milestone in the growth of federal government regulation.
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A labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police.
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was made law with the support of both major political parties and of pressure groups in all regions of the country.
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was one of the first initiatives of the US Congress to proscribe concentration of financial power in the hands of a few individuals and/or firms.
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The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout in the place called Homestead. Homestead’s place in the industrial revolution and later labor movements are so important.
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The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States
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Eugene Debs became a featured speaker for the Socialist Party, and ran for president as their nominee.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first successful experiment in which a machine carried a human or any living thing by its own power, flew naturally, flew steadily, and landed without damaging itself. This is commonly known in present day as the airplane.
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Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company.Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, and for several years, the company posted 100 percent gains.
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In Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional.
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J.P. Morgan held a meeting of the country’s top financiers at his New York City home and convinced them to bail out various faltering financial institutions in order to stabilize the markets.
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