U.S. Business History

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  • The South Creates a Government

  • Lincoln's Inauguration

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • First Battle of Bull Run

  • Battle of Monitor and Merrimac

  • Battle of Shiloh

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln Is Re-Elected

  • Civil War Ends

  • U.S. Buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million

  • Alexander Graham Bell receives the first telephone patent

  • Edison Electric Founded by Thomas Alva Edison

  • Bell Telephone Company is formed

  • Ford Motor Company is founded

  • Wright Brothers Make First Flight

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • GM Motors is found

  • The Federal Reserve Act enacted

  • Great Stock Crash

  • 1st Commercial Television Broadcast

  • Korean War

  • The first Japanese car, a Toyota, is sold in the United States

  • Launch of Sputnik

  • Bank of America launches the first credit card

  • First Walmart Opens

  • Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Microsoft to develop software for personal computers

  • Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form the Apple Computer Company and sell their first personal computers

  • U.S. Government Bails Out Chrysler

  • Verizon

  • Black Monday Crash

  • World Wide Web available to the public

  • Jeff Bezos opens Amazon.com on the Internet

  • 9-11 Attack on the U.S.

  • Facebook was founded

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Steve Job dies