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Inventions Time Line Key Events Maps Transcript Webography

Link to Feature  = to Inventions, 1868-1898   Link to Transcript  = to the Transcript

1860

Knights of Labor founded

1875 -
1876

Link to TranscriptArmour and Swift begin Chicago meatpacking

1877

Link to TranscriptWidespread railroad strikes in "Great Uprising of 1877"
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1878

Edison Electric Light Company founded

1879

Link to TranscriptCarnegie begins steel production

1886

Haymarket riot in Chicago

 

American Federation of Labor founded

1890

Link to TranscriptChicago meatpacking is world's greatest concentration of capital and labor

1906

Link to TranscriptSinclair publishes The Jungle

An interactive, expanded timeline for the period after 1876 can be found in Program 26.


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