Important Events 1865-1920!

  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    Christopher Scholes invented the first practical and modern typewriter.
  • Transcontientakl Railroad

    Transcontientakl Railroad
    The first transcontinental railroad was completed, starting in the Central Pacific, building eastward from San Fransicso, and meeting the Union Pacific building westward from Omaha, Nebraska, and met at Promontary Point, Utah.
  • Barbed Wire

    Barbed Wire
    Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
  • Incandescent Light Bulb

    Incandescent Light Bulb
    Edison recieved his patent for the incandescent light bulb.
  • Chinese Exclsion Act

    Chinese Exclsion Act
    The Chinese Exclusion Act placed strict limitations on the number of Chinese allowed to enter the United States and the number allowed to become naturalized citizens.
  • The statue of Liberty

    The statue of Liberty
    The Statue Of Liberty was paced in the NYC harbour as a welcoming to America for the immagrants.
  • The Pullman Strike

    The Pullman Strike
    Workers at George Pullman's factory refused to work when pay cuts and firings were announced.
  • Vaccum Cleaner

    Vaccum Cleaner
    Hurbert Booth invents a compact and modern vaccum cleaner.
  • Radio Reciever

    Radio Reciever
    Guglielmo Macroni invents the radio reciever.
  • Disposable Safety Razor

    Disposable Safety Razor
    King Camp Gillette invents the disposable safety razor.
  • Ford Motor Company's First Assembly Line

    Ford Motor Company's First Assembly Line
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment
    Gave congress the power to collect the income tax.
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment
    Allowed for the direct election of senators rather than having them appointed from the state legislatures. It was a progressive effort to increase democracy
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    gave women the right to vote
  • Immigration Quota Act

    Immigration Quota Act
    The US passed a temporary block on immigration that said a maximum of 350,000 immigrants from th Eastern hemisphere could come each year and that the immigrants each year could not exceed 3% of the nationally present in the U.S. according to the 1910 census.