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First method developed where steel could be mass produced
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Edwin Drake drills the first oil well in Titusville, PA
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John D. Rockefeller founds one of the most successful corperations in the industrial revolution.
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Christopher Sholes invents the typewriter
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A railroad reaching from the east coast to thewWest coast of the United States was completed.
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President of Credit Mobiler Company bribed congressmen with discounted stock.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
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Munn fought Illinois on whether grain elevaors had the right to have unregulated prices
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Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb.
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Mother Jones organized and led many strikes and rallies.
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During a riot in Chicago a bomb went off killing 7 and injuring over 70.
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A bill was passed to regulate railroad Industry.
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Helped regulate merging of large corperations to keep companies from not having any competition.
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J.P. Morgan founds the company J.P. Morgan and Co. after fathers death.
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Carnigie Steel Co. workers go on strike.
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Eugene Debs founded the first American railway union.
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Workers called strike on the Pullman Palace Car Company
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The Wright Brothers fly the first succesful plane.
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A law limiting hours of bakers to 10 hours, 6 days a week was fought over in NY
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Henry Ford invents the first mass produced car, the Model-T
