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rivers and harbors act passed
At that time Congress appropriated $75,000 to improve navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by removing sandbars, snags, and other obstacles. -
william kelly and henry bessemer discover a way to process iron ore into steel
He is credited with being one of the inventors of modern steel production, through the process of injecting air into molten . -
edwin drake strike oil in pennsylvania
He was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and was hte first sucess in drilling for oil. -
national lsbor union is organized
it was a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining -
george westinghouse invents the air brakes
He witness a train crash and then invented the air break which was a brake worked by air pressure. -
christopher sholes invents the typewriter
He and a partner worked on the first comercially accepted typewriter, and recieved patents. -
union pacific and central pacific railroads meet at promontory point, Utah
Promontory Summit where the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869. -
john d rockefeller creates standard oil in ohio
This was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company, and it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time. It was dissolved in 1911. -
what did joseph mccoy established a cattle trading station in kansas
19th-century entrepreneur famous for promoting the transport of Longhorn cattle from Texas to the eastern United States. -
the great railroad strike
The strike tarted on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the third time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and striking workers would not allow any of the trains, mainly freight trains, to roll until this third wage cut was revoked. -
edison invents the phonograh
While working on the telephone and telegraph, Edison invented the phonograph which records sound using tinfoil. -
terance powdely leads the knights of armor
Powderly saw the Knights as an educational tool to uplift the workingman, and he downplayed strikes. -
samuel gompers becomes leader of the american federation of labor
He promoted thorough organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor. -
haymarket square riot
This was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration in Chicago. -
andrew caregie publishes the gospel of wealth
"The Gospel of Wealth", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. -
forest reserve act passed
This was a law that allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. -
andrew carnegie sells us steel to jp morgan for 480 million
He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $480 million, creating the U.S. Steel Corporation. -
standard oil is dissolved
On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
the statue of liberty is unveiled
President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, in New York Harbor.
