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Used a steam engine to drill for oil
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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Industrialization
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Thomas Alva Edison
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. -
Built a factory
George M. Pullman built a facotry for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other contries. -
Bootleggers
Named smugglers practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots. -
Black Tuesday
The bottom fell out of the market and the nations confidence. Shareholders frantically tried to sell before prices plunged even lower. -
William Seward
Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Heir to the Austrian throne. -
No Man's Land
A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire. -
Trench Warefare
Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems or fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield. -
Speakeasies
