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| 1859, make drilling for oil practical |
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| ~1850, technique for producing steel |
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| 1876, invented light bulb, first research laboratory |
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| 1867, invented typewriter |
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| transcontinental railroad |
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| railroad spanning the nation |
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| 1880, built factory for manufacturing railroad cars |
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| 1864, a construction company, formed for control and profit |
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| 1877, Granger laws upheld, states won right to regulate railroads |
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| 1887, gives government the right to supervise railroad activities, established the ICC |
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| started the Carnegie Steel Company, manufactured more steel than Great Britain |
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| process of buying out the suppliers of raw materials and transportation |
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| a process where companies producing similar products merge |
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| a theory that success and failure in business were governed by natural law |
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| established the Standard Oil Company, used a trust to control the entire oil industry |
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| 1890, made forming trusts illegal if it interferes with free trade |
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| Jewish immigrant, 1886, became president of the AFL |
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| American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
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| a craft union with skilled workers in multiple trades |
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| attempted to form the ARU (American Railway Union) containing skilled and unskilled workers |
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| Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) |
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| 1905, organized by a group of radical unionists and socailists |
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| supported the Great Strike of 1877, organized the UMW (United Mine Workers of America) |
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