Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities

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the phonograph 1879 College football debuts 1880 Thomas Edison develops an electric lightbulb John D Rockefeller’s Standard Oil owns 90 percent of oil refineries in the United States 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is passed 1884 First skyscraper is built in Chicago 1886 American Federation of Labor forms Haymarket Riot occurs 1889 Jane Addams establishes Hull House 1891 James Naismith invents the game of basketball 1892 Carnegie Steel Company is the largest US steel maker Homestead Strike occurs 1893 Economic depression Panic of 1893 hits Chicago hosts the World's Columbian Exposition Illinois governor pardons surviving Haymarket Riot participants 1894 Pullman Strike occurs 1897 Nation's first subway is completed in Boston 1899 First juvenile court system is established in Illinois Marshall Taylor wins the world one mile track cycling championship 1901 Pan American Exposition is held in Buffalo New York President William McKinley is assassinated