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Bessemer Process
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from iron -
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The Industrial Revolution
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Edwin Drake
On this day Edwin Drake was the first person to strike oil in Titusville, PA. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Union Pacific Railroad formed a construction company called Credit Mobilier and Up charged 2-3 times the cost to the government and pocketed all the profits. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
Was a railroad built in the U.S. that connected eastern terminus in Council Bluffs with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, CA and on this day it was completed. -
John D. Rockefeller
He established the Standard Oil Company and he created the first business trust. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell recieved his first patent for his invention of the telephone. -
Munn vs Illinois
There was a law on how much you could charge for storage of grain and the Chicago Grain warehouse firm of Munn and Scott was found guilty of this crime, but the company appealed it because they thought it represented an unconstitutuional deprivation of property without due process of law and they won. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas edison invented the first industrial light bulb on this day. -
Haymarket Riot
On this day there was group of protesters protesting for a 8 hour work day when one angry protester got out of hand and threw a dynamite sticvk at a town meeting and killed 4 civilians and 7 police officers. -
Interstate Commerce Act
Legislation passed that gave the federal government the right to supervise railroad activities.. Supreme court later ruled that the ICC could not set maximum railroad rates. -
Christopher Sholes
On this day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Christopher Sholes invented the first modern Typewriter -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. This would help lower the prices for the consumer. -
J.P. Morgan
Was a man who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. On this day he merged Edison General Electric and Thomas-Houston Electric Compant to General Electric. -
Homestead Strike
was an industrial lockout and strike that lead to a battle between strikers and private security agents. The final result was a big defeat for the union and a setback for efforts to unionize steelworkers. -
Eugene Debs
Founder of the American Railway Union (ARU) which was the first industrial Union. -
Pullman Strike
The workeers of Pullman Palace Car Company went on strike due to their working loads and low wages. The Owner of the company Required his workers to live in a certain area where all of the town was owned by him. This would result in all of the workers paychecks going right back to the employer. -
Mother Jones
Was a speaker and helped organize unions and protests and on this day she lead a Children's march to the house of Theodore Roosevelt. -
Wright Brothers
On this day Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. -
Lochner vs. New york Decision
April 17, 1906This was a court decision that the case on whether the case on whether the city of New york should be able to limit the number of hours a baker could work in a week to 60 and make it so that no baker can work past 10 pm. The court ruled this case as unreasonable because it interfered with the right and liberty of the individualto contract, -
Henry Ford
Henry Ford designed the assembly line and during this year the first assembly line was used for producing Model T Fords.
