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WIlliam Kelly and Henry Bessemer discover a way to process iron into steel
This was extremely nation changing, steel took a positive impact on the world -
Edwin Drake strikes oil in Pennsylvania
This well is now known as the Drake Well -
national labor union organized
The National Labor Union was the first national labor federation in the United States -
Christopher Sholes invents the typewriter
He was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. -
Joseph McMoy established a cattle trading station in Kansas
He wanted to establish a trading station to make it easier on cattle herders and farmers to trade cattle -
George Westinghouse invents the air brakes
Air brakes were first used on passenger trains. The primary principle involved is the use of compressed air acting through a piston in a cylinder to set block brakes on the wheels. -
Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory Point,Utah
the presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah, and drive a ceremonial last spike into a rail line that connects their railroads. This made transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history -
John D Rockefeller creates Standard Oil in Ohio
Was the largest oil refiner of its time -
The great railroad strike
Started in Martinsburg, West Virginia, it was in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad -
Edison invents the phonograph
His favorite invention was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, he figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. In 1877, he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback. -
Terrence Powderly becomes leader of the Knights of Labor
Was officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s, Terrence Powderly was the most important leader -
Samuel Gompers becomes leader of American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers was the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor -
Haymarket square riot
It was a labor protest rally that turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
The statue of liberty is unveiled
is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City -
Andrew Carnegie publishes The Gospel of Wealth
an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. -
Forest Reserve Act Passed
is a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain -
Rivers and Harbors Act Passed
was the first federal water pollution act in the United States -
Andrew Carnegie sells US steel to JP Morgan for $480 million
Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in the world of his time -
standard oil is dissolved
the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
