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Chapter 18: The New Industrial Order |
1859 First oil well: drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania
1866 National Labor Union: first national labor union created
1869 Knights of Labor: radical labor union founded
1870 Standard Oil Company: John D. Rockefeller incorporates the giant oil company in Ohio
1873 Carnegie Steel Company: steel giant founded in Pittsburgh
Panic of 1873: years of financial and industrial expansion plunge the country into a five-year depression
1876 Telephone: invented by Alexander Graham Bell
1877 Great RR Strike: Railroad wage cuts lead to violent strikes that paralyze nation’s rail system
1879 Incandescent light bulb: developed by Edison
Progress and Poverty by Henry George: details widespread poverty in America
1882 First trust: Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company
1883Time zones: Railroads establish standard time zones
1886 American Federation of Labor: federation of unions of skilled workers organized
Haymarket Square bombing: bomb thrown at police at labor rally in Chicago leads to arrest of eight anarchists
1892 Homestead Steel strike: succession of wage cuts at Carnegie’s steel mill triggers a violent strike
1893 Panic of 1893: railroad bankruptcy sends overheated economy into a four-year tailspin
1894 Pullman strike: lay-offs and wage cuts spark a strike that is crushed by federal troops
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