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Edwin L. Drake successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, removing oil from beneath the earth's surface became pratical.
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Thomas Alva Edison became a pioneer on the new industrial frontier when he established the world's first research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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George M. Pullman built a facotry for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie.
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Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other contries.
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Named smugglers practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.
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The bottom fell out of the market and the nations confidence. Shareholders frantically tried to sell before prices plunged even lower.
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Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
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Heir to the Austrian throne.
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A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire.
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Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems or fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield.
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