Business from Civil war to Present

  • End of Civil War

    End of Civil War

    Civil War finaly ended
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    Made it so that products could be sold more easily through the U.S. Expanded the market
  • Joseph Glidden Creates Barbed Wire

    Joseph Glidden Creates Barbed Wire

    Made it so that farmers caddle was safe from being stolen or killed.
  • Ford Creates Model T

    Ford Creates Model T

    Made traveling a lot easier and slowly got rid of hourse and buggy transportation.
  • First Flight

    First Flight

    The Wright brothers flew the first engined plane in Kitty Hawk North Carolina. Would make transporting goods much faster.
  • UPS

    UPS

    Made shipping and handeling so much easier. Companies could rely on UPS to get their product to their customer without a hassel.
  • GM

    GM

    General Motor car company was started. Reveloutionized the car industry, made buying cars in different colors possible.
  • Stock Market Crashed

    Stock Market Crashed

    Stock market crashed which led to the Great Depression, which we would only get out of by going into war.
  • NASA Founded

    NASA Founded

    Governent funded program which would take the first American to the moon.
  • Microsoft

    Microsoft

    Bill Gates creates Microsoft. Makes it possible for businesses to have softwate systems on computers and to be able to use computers
  • Apple

    Apple

    Steve Jobs starts up apple in his garage. Without Apple the tecnology world may not be what it is today.
  • Amazon

    Amazon

    Jeff Bezos created amazon in his garage. Started as a company that sold books, now they sell just about anything, even a phone.
  • Google

    Google

    Larry Page and Sergey Brin created one of the most important search engines ever. Made looking up anything you can think of a possibility.
  • 9/11

    9/11

    One of the worst attacks on U.S ground in history. Led to airlines losing money due to lack of interest in air travel.
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    Mark Zuckerburg creates the social network site called Facebook. Would make advertising businesses a much easier process.
  • First Generation iPhone

    First Generation iPhone

    Apple changed the cellphone world on this day, made every other cellphone company step there game up especially Samsung.
  • Recession

    Recession

    Stocks were down, housing market down, people cutting back on spending.
  • Xbox One

    Xbox One

    Microsoft once again sets the pace for the gaming industry.
  • iPhone 6

    iPhone 6

    Apple steps up the cellphone world again.