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Industrialization in the United States

  • Pan Alley

    Pan Alley

    A collection of the most popular New York CIty music publishers and songwriters, sold more than a million copies of sheet music on the streets of NYC.
  • Pullman creates Pullman Company and creates luxury sleeping railway cars

    Pullman creates Pullman Company and creates luxury sleeping railway cars

    This caused more people to travel, created hardships for Chinese immigrants who slaved over the development of the rails, induced people to move west.
  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

    The main line of the Transcontinental Railroad is completed. This line connects the Eastern coast to California.
  • Edison

    Edison

    Thomas Edison invents electricity.
  • Phonograph

    Phonograph

    Thomas Edison invents the phonograph (record player).
  • Pulitzer

    Pulitzer

    Joseph Pulitzer buys New York World and begins the Sunday Edition. This calls for an easier circulation of information and news.
  • Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain releases The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • William Randolph Hearst

    William Randolph Hearst

    Hearst buys The New York Morning Journal and tries to outshine Pulitzer with massive exaggerations to increase sales.
  • The Machine Age Arrives

    The Machine Age Arrives

    The machine age arrives when iron, steel, meat packing, and flour milling becomesthe leading industries in the United States due to increased immigration and urban growth during the 1890's.
  • J.P Morgan

    J.P Morgan

    Due to the Panic of 1907, where major banks were close to calling bankruptcy, J.P Morgan met with financiers and came up with the Federal Reserve System and saved the day.
  • Ford

    Ford

    Ford creates the assembly line. This speeds up the manufacturing process.
  • By 1920 the United States surpass Great Britian in manufacturing

    By 1920 the United States surpass Great Britian in manufacturing

    This is due to industrialization