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Industrial Revolution by Evan and Aveen.
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The Bessemer Process was the first process by which steel could be mass produced.
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Morgan was an accountant with the New York banking firm of Duncan Sherman and Company.
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With $4,000 in capital, the two entrepreneurs traded in grain, hay, and meats.
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Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania producing 1,500 barrels of oil a day with Standard Oil Company.
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Illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction and finance company associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad became the incident that started the Crédit Mobilier Scandal. The construction of the railroad was manipulated by a few men who took lots of money for the railroad, and ended up impoverishing the railroad.
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Workers joined the tracks at Promontory Point in Utah in 1869, thus creating the first transcontinental railroad.
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Pictured is Rockefeller.
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Thomas Edison created the incandescent lamp, electric power station, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and motion pictures.
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The Case was over whether Illinois had the authority to regulate the prices charged by grain elevators. Elevator owners argued that regulation interfered with federal commerce powers and took away their due process of law as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Pictured is Morrison Remick Waite, the judge on the case.
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He works for deaf and invents the photophone here.
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A bomb exploded among a group of policemen as they attempted to disperse a giant labor rally in the city's Haymarket Square. The explosion killed seven policemen and injured 70 people.
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It represented a congressional response to the calls for railroad regulations, but also because it established the first of many federal regulatory commissions, the ICC.
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The act created by John Sherman was the first federal law to regulate large corporations and trusts and eliminate monopolies.
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"Mother" Jones began organizing women's auxiliaries to unions and attacking child labor practices in the South, and The United Mine Workers was one of these groups.
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In Homestead, Pennsylvania, workers in the Carnegie Steel Manufacturing Plant were fearful of losing their jobs, angry over pay cuts, and unwilling to surrender their labor union.
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The Illinois Govenor claimed that three prisoners from the riot had never received a fair trial.
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The ARU became the nation's first industrial union.
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This became one of the most famous clashes between labor and capital in the United States. The strike rose to historical importance after the American Railway Union orchestrated a boycott in support of the striking workers.
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The corporation was made from the Federal Steel Company, Carnegie Steel Company, and other steel companies. The United States Steel Corporation becomes the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Pictured is Andrew Carnegie, the founder of Carnegie Steel Company.
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Mary Jones did so by directing the strikers' wives to attack strikebreaks with brooms and mops.
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Took Place in Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright was at the controls.
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At issue was a New York law limiting the work hours of bakers to 10 hours a day and six days a week. Limited work hours in the week were wanted, as workers felt over worked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is pictured; he was a man who thought work limits were rather unnecessasary.
