US Business History: Civil War to Present Day By facebooker_1029456798 Jan 1, 1860 South still Predominatly agricultural Nov 19, 1863 Gettysburg Adress Apr 9, 1865 Civil War Ends Jan 1, 1870 Sandard Oil Company May 8, 1886 Coca Cola Was Made Jun 16, 1903 Ford Motor Company Created Jan 3, 1919 Prohabition: Made selling and consuming alchohol illegal No selling or consuming alchohl Feb 3, 1929 13 Million People Unemployed Sep 28, 1929 Crash of the Wall Street Stock Market Sep 29, 1929 Great Depression Began Jan 1, 1940 McDonalds was established Jan 1, 1963 Emancipation Proclimation Apr 1, 1976 Apple Computers Sep 11, 2001 Tragic Events of 9/11 Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers. Oct 16, 2008 Economic Recession Jan 1, 2010 Health Care Reform Oct 5, 2011 Steve Jobs Died Apr 10, 2012 Apple Inc claims 600 Billion dollar value Jan 1, 2014 Afordable Health Care Feb 3, 2015 Legal Marijuana Colorodo began legal selling of recreational Marijuana
