US History ( Unit 3) part 1 By 3157058ridley 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt became a railroad tycoon 1831 Invention of the mechanical reaper Apr 12, 1861 Beginning of civil war 1862 Homestead act 1863 Chinese workers helped build the Transcontinental Railroad 1863 First subway system created 1865 End of the civil war 1870 Andrew Carnegie created a steel company 1870 John D Rockefeller created his an oil company 1873 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb 1876 Alexander Graham bell invented the telephone 1880 Old immigration ended 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Passed 1892 Ellis island opened 1894 Morgan became a robber baron in banking 1901 immigration restriction act passed 1903 The wright brothers invented the airplane 1910 Urbanization began in america 1913 Henry ford developed the assmebly line 1920 New immigration ended
