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By sethmcm

  • Old Immigration ended

    Late 1800's

  • New Immigration ended

    late 1800's
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt became a railroad tycoon

    Cornelius Vanderbilt became a railroad tycoon

    Made his business in the late 1820's
  • Mechanical Reaper invented

    Mechanical Reaper invented

    Mechanical reaper was created my cyrus mccormick
  • Beginning of the civil war

    Beginning of the civil war

    Civil war began
  • Chinese workers helped make the Transcontinental Railroad

    Chinese workers helped make the Transcontinental Railroad

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Free public land to settlers who would live and farm on it
  • End of civil war

    End of civil war

    Civil war ended
  • John D. Rockefeller created an oil company

    John D. Rockefeller created an oil company

  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone

  • Thomas Edison invented the light bulb

    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb

    Thomas Edison created the first edition of the Light Bulb
  • Chinese Exclusion Act passed

    Chinese Exclusion Act passed

    Chinese exclusion act
  • Andrew Carnegie created a steel company

    Andrew Carnegie created a steel company

  • Ellis Island opened

    Ellis Island opened

    Ellis island opened for all immigrants to pass through to get citizenship
  • J.P. Morgan became a robber baron in banking

    J.P. Morgan became a robber baron in banking

  • The Wright Brothers invented the Airplane

    The Wright Brothers invented the Airplane

  • First subway system created

    First subway system created

  • Urbanization began in America

    Urbanization began in America

    1910 began urbanization in the east
  • Henry Ford developed the assembly line

    Henry Ford developed the assembly line

  • Immigration restriction act

    Immigration restriction act

    Limited immigration