U.S. History - Unit 3 Pt. 1 By 4010452. 1810 J.P. Morgan Became Robber Baron 1831 Invention of Mechanical Reaper 1860 Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroad Tycoon 1861 Beginning of the Civil War 1862 Homestead Act 1863 Chinese Helped Build Transcontinental Railroad 1865 End of Civil War 1870 John Rockefeller Oil Company 1876 Alexander Graham Bell first Telephone 1879 Thomas Edison Invented The Light Bulb 1880 Old Immigration ended 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1889 Andrew Carnegie Steel Company 1890 First Subway System 1892 Ellis Island Opened 1903 Wright Brothers Invented Airplane 1910 Urbanization Began In America 1913 Henry Ford Assembly Line 1920 New Immigration Ended 1921 Immigration Restriction Act