17 Industrial Supremacy Flashcards by Meg WK | Brainscape

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1866

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National Labor Union founded

2. First transatlantic cable

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1859

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First oil well drilled

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1870

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Rockefeller founds Standard Oil

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1873

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Carnegie Steel founded

2. Economic panic

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1876

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Bell invents telephone

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1877

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Nationwide railroad strike

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1879

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Edison invents electric lightbulb

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1881

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American Federation of Labor founded

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1886

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Haymarket bombing

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1888

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Bellamy’s Looking Backward

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1892

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Homestead steel strike

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1893

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Depression begins

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1894

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Pullman strike

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1901

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Morgan creates U.S. Steel

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1903

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Wright brothers’ airplane flight

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1914

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Ford introduces factory assembly lines