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| Introduction | vii | ||
| Reader's Guide | xiii | ||
| Timeline of Events | xvii | ||
| Words to Know | xxix | ||
| Jane Addams | 1 | (9) | |
| Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor | 10 | (11) | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 21 | (9) | |
| Andrew Carnegie | 30 | (10) | |
| Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers | 40 | (9) | |
| Eugene Victor Debs | 49 | (11) | |
| Thomas Edison | 60 | (11) | |
| John Fitch | 71 | (8) | |
| Henry Ford | 79 | (10) | |
| Frank and Lillian Gilbreth | 89 | (11) | |
| Florence Kelley | 100 | (9) | |
| Robert M. LaFollette | 109 | (11) | |
| Julia C. Lathrop | 120 | (8) | |
| Lewis H. Latimer | 128 | (8) | |
| Mary Elizabeth Lease | 136 | (8) | |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | 144 | (10) | |
| Elijah McCoy | 154 | (8) | |
| J.P. Morgan | 162 | (14) | |
| George Washington Murray | 176 | (6) | |
| A. Philip Randolph | 182 | (11) | |
| John D. Rockefeller Sr | 193 | (14) | |
| Samuel Slater | 207 | (8) | |
| Ellen Gates Starr | 215 | (8) | |
| Ida M. Tarbell | 223 | (11) | |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | 234 | (10) | |
| Booker T. Washington | 244 | ||
| Where to Learn More | xxxix | ||
| Index | xli |
