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People (10)
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-American inventor of the telephone, 1847–1922
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born steel magnate and America's greatest philanthropist
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The railroad and shipping baron who built the template for American monopoly capitalism
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin who accidentally expanded slavery and deliberately built American mass production
Henry Ford
Industrialist who put the automobile within reach of ordinary Americans
J.P. Morgan
Banker, Financier, and Architect of American Industrial Power
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil and the wealthiest private citizen in American history
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor who built the modern electrical world
Thomas Edison
Inventor of the phonograph, the practical light bulb, and the modern research laboratory
Wright Brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright, pioneers of powered flight
Places (13)
Chicago
The city that built itself from nothing, burned down, rebuilt, and became America's most American city
Detroit
The Motor City that built America's middle class and paid the price of its collapse
Erie Canal
The 363-mile engineering marvel that connected the Atlantic to the Great Lakes and made New York supreme
Los Angeles
The city that became America's second metropolis by inventing itself from scratch
New York
The empire state — gateway, financial capital, and engine of American ambition
New York City
America's largest city and the commercial, cultural, and immigrant capital of the nation
Niagara Falls
The Great Lakes-fed waterfall that powered the second industrial revolution
Promontory Summit
The Utah meeting point where two railroads joined and a continent was crossed
Route 66
The "Main Street of America" that carried a nation west
San Francisco
California's gateway city, remade by gold, catastrophe, and perpetual reinvention
Seattle
Gateway to Alaska, birthplace of Boeing, and capital of the Pacific Northwest
Silicon Valley
How a stretch of California orchards became the engine of the digital age
The Interstate Highway System
The largest public works project in American history
Eras (1)
The Gilded Age
The era of industrialists, immigrants, and inequality that remade America, 1877–1900
Events (18)
Edison's Incandescent Light Bulb
The 1879 Menlo Park demonstration that ended the gaslight era
Haymarket Affair
The 1886 bombing that defined — and distorted — the American labor movement
Homestead Strike
The 1892 labor battle that broke the steel union and defined Gilded Age industrial conflict
Invention of the Telephone
The 1876 breakthrough that let the human voice travel by wire
Spindletop
The 1901 gusher that launched the American oil age
The Cotton Gin
The 1793 invention that mechanized cotton — and entrenched slavery
The Ford Model T
The car — and the assembly line — that put America on wheels
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The first nationwide strike — and the violent dawn of the American labor war
The Johnstown Flood
The 1889 dam failure that drowned a city and shamed the Gilded Age elite
The Moving Assembly Line
The 1913 innovation that made mass production — and the modern economy
The Pullman Strike
The 1894 railroad shutdown that sent a labor leader to prison — and radicalized him
The Telegraph
How Morse code severed the link between communication and travel
The Telephone
The 1876 invention that let the human voice travel across the wire
The Transistor
The tiny 1947 device that made the digital age possible
Transcontinental Railroad
The 1869 rail line that stitched the continent together — and transformed everything it touched
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The 1911 factory disaster that transformed American labor law
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago's 1893 "White City" and the showcase of an industrial America
Wright Brothers' First Flight
The 12-second powered flight at Kitty Hawk that opened the aviation age
Documents (3)
Interstate Commerce Act
The 1887 Law That First Subjected American Business to Federal Regulation
Pacific Railway Act
The 1862 legislation that authorized the transcontinental railroad and opened the continent
Sherman Antitrust Act
The 1890 law that gave the federal government its first tool against monopoly power
Concepts (7)
American Innovation
How a culture of invention turned the United States into the engine of the modern world
Capitalism
The economic system that built American prosperity — and its persistent contradictions
General Motors
The company that out-organized Ford and ruled the American road
The Automobile
How the car became the machine that reshaped American life
The Industrial Revolution
The transformation of American labor, production, and daily life, 1820–1900
Trust-Busting
The Progressive Era campaign to break up industrial monopolies and restore competition
Urbanization
The great demographic transformation that moved America from a rural to an urban nation
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