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Steam ships are made to make crossing atlantic more safe
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the strikes were so significant and intense at this time that they go down and in history. it was the biggest and most important/changing railroad strike ever.
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He invents the lightbulb, and within two years street lights are being put up.
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Over 75% of immigrants arrive in America
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leadership changes. Terence V. Powderly took on the leadership of the Knights of Labor.
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Because of the invention of steel the Brooklyn Bridge was finished in 1883, it was a construction feet during that time
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in 1884, 27 countries divided the globe into 24 time zones, one for each hour of the day.
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Affrican American inventor Granville Woods invents an improved stem-powered furnace for running trsins
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the Knights had grown to have 700,000 men and women nationwide.
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By this time America was out producing Great Britain steel manufacturers
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Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
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many rural-to-urban migrants moved to the cities in search of new jobs
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a new start, all immigrants were processed at Ellis Island
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There are over one million telephones in the US, and more than 100,000 miles of telephone wire linked across the land
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a series of failed strikes the Knights had largely disappeared
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Boston creates first subway system
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New York opens its first ever subway in the city
