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Bessemer Process
the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron. -
Edwin Drake
Drake strikes black gold seventy feet below -
Thomas Edison
Edison arrives in Boston to change his professon from telegrapher to inventor. -
Christopher Sholes
First typewriter invented. -
Transcontinental Railroad completed
the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. -
John D. Rockefeller
He established standard oil, which later controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. -
Alexander Graham bell
Moved to Boston to work on a device that would allow for the telegraph transmission of several messages set to different frequencies -
Credit Moblier Scandal
article was released that started the scandal. -
Munn v Illinois
case decided by supreme court -
Haymarket Riot
A rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Congress passed the interstate commerce act -
sherman antitrust act
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. -
Homestead Strike
the displaced workers opened fire on a barge loaded with 300 Pinkerton agents who were being brought in as strikebreakers -
Pullman Strike
Three thousand Pullman workers went on a strike. -
Mother Jones
Assisted the thousands of railroad strikers. she supported anybody involved with coal mining, textile workers or steelworkers were fighting to organize a union. -
J.P. Morgan
Morgan was the main force behind the Trusts, controlling virtually all the basic American industries. He then looked to the financial and insurance industries, in which his banking firm also achieved a concentration of control. -
Wright Brothers
Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. -
Lochner v NY decision
the Supreme Court ruled that a New York law setting maximum working hours for bakers was unconstitutional. -
Henry Ford
Ford created the Ford Model T car -
Eugene Debs
Opposed Woodrow Wilson as the Socialist Party candidate, then rallied against President Wilson and his decision to go to war.
