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The Bessemer Proxess is patented, paving the way for the mass production of steel and a new industrial age in America.
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Edwin L. Drake Strikes oil in Titusvile, Pennysylvania, marking the first sucessful oil well and the beginning of the commercial use of oil.
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Workers finish Construction on the transcontinental railroad, the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts.
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Dangerous working conditions and wage cuts spark violent protests by railway workers in the great railroad strike.
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Samuel Odd and John Rockfeller for the Standard Oil Trust, which would soon dominate the nation's oil industry.
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Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Pullman Strike lead President Cleveland to use federal force against striking workers.
