The Gilded Age

  • OIl in PA

    OIl in PA

    The oil boom was from 1859 to the early 1870s
  • Bessemer Process discovered

    Bessemer Process discovered

    First cheap mass production of steel.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    The homestead Act encouraged western migration.
  • National Labor Union

    National Labor Union

    Paved the way for other organizations such as knights of labor.
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the late 1860. This helped better communication and allowed women to have more jobs.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter

    Gave women more jobs and faster production/spread of comminication.
  • Transcontinental Railroad bulit

    Transcontinental Railroad bulit

    Allowed communiation and travel through the states easier.
  • Air brake

    Air brake

    Created safty for the railroads and increased the travel.
  • Standard Oil Company Started

    Standard Oil Company Started

    The first ever american oil company, started in Clevland Ohio.
  • Phonograph

    Phonograph

    Allowed people to record sound for the first time.
  • B & O Railroad strike

    B & O Railroad strike

    Responce to cutting work wages for the third time. Would not let anyone pass through until they were brought back up.
  • lightbulb

    lightbulb

    This provided america with the light needed to work after hours.
  • Haymarket Square Riot

    Haymarket Square Riot

    Turned into a riot when a citizen through a bomb at a police officer.
  • Statue of liberty

    Statue of liberty

    Was a gift to the unite states from the french. Showing the pride in the country of liberty.
  • Gospel of Wealth Published

    Gospel of Wealth Published

    Describes the responsibilty of philanthropy by the newfound upper class.
  • Forest Reserce Act

    Forest Reserce Act

    Law that allowed the presient to set aside land for national forrest.
  • Homestead strike

    Homestead strike

    Stike with factory steel workers not having proper pay and labor.
  • Pullman strike

    Pullman strike

    Pitted the american railroad over the pullman.
  • Carnegie sells to J,P Morgan

    Carnegie sells to J,P Morgan

    Biggest bussiness deal yet.
  • Standard Oil Dissolved by spreme court

    Standard Oil Dissolved by spreme court

    The first ever monopoly was created in the oil bussiness and it went to supreme court.

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