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Sewing Machine
First practical sewing machine patented. Sped up factory production. Elias Howe created first patented sewing machine in New Hartford, Connecticut. It was a lockstitch sewing machine. -
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Population Doubled
In 1850 until 1900s the population doubled in America. This meant the more people were looking to be employed. They created an uran society. Unknown month and day. -
Railroad connected with Columbus
Railroad connected with Columbus. It helped Ohio form into a thriving ciy. The station had three tracks, one for unloading, and one for loading. The road was called "panhandle route" because the road crossed the panhandle of West Virginia. -
Chinese Immigrants come to the US!
Between 1865 and 1882, 320,000 chinese immigrated to the United States. They fled from Southern China were warfare, overpopulation, and a failing econemy had left millions near starvation. -
Improved Transortation
Transprotation of international goods on railroads, and steamships provided a cheap means of transportation. -
Immigrants make contributions to labor
Immigrants from all around the world started working in all sorts of jobs such as farmer and merchants. -
Great economic groth in America
The great economic groth that took place between 1870 and 1920 owned an very vast dept to the hard work and talent of millions who came to the United States from other lands. -
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Entrepreneurs
Built companies and it helped America become an industrial giant. An entrepreneur is some who is farsighted, an ambitious person wo organizes and ssumes the risk of a buisness venture. -
First keyboard typewriter
First keyboard typewriter patened. The typewriter helped productively.Thomas Alva Edison builds first electric typewriter.Revolutionized the work of the writer. Originally developed by Henry Mill of England. -
Telephone
Telephone was patented, it became an easier way to communicate. Telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell. It was originally called " Improvement in Telegraphy". At first phone was not welcomed. -
To the North!
Tens of thousands black people left the South because of rascism and being treated poorly by the KU KLUX KLAN. They moved to the North in search of a better life and better employment. -
European immigrants come to the US!
Until 1880, three-fouths of the Europeans who immigrated to the United States had to come from Britain, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia. -
Brooklyn Bridge is completed
The Brooklyn Bridge spanned the East River to connect it with New York City. Irish workers protested on the Opening Day of the bridge because it coincided with Queen Victoria's birthday. On Opening Day the toll was one cent, afterwards it was 3 cents. -
First skyscraper
Skyscraper was costructed with first metal frame by William LeBaron Jenny and also designed the Home Insurance building. The steel frames made the suspension bridge possible. Road way for the bridge is suspended by thick cables, and it is also strong enough to support trains and other traffic, Unknown month and day. -
Introduction of the linotype machine
Linotype machine was first introduced and patented. Revolutionized the publishing industry. Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore created the linotype. Unknown day. -
Government was troubled by weak leadership
Although the Knights Of Labor included 700,000 members by 1886, the union was troubled with enternal disagreements and weak leadership. More succesful was the American Federation of Labor founded in 1886. Its first president was Dutch-Jewish Immigrant named Sammuel Gompers. -
Sammuel Gompers
Gompers believed that orginized workers had the right to strike. He also felt that strikes could be avoided if union leaders and employers met to wrok out agreements on such matters as wages and hours. -
Federation of miners
Federation of miners was established in 1893 when state militia and federal troops were called in and the violence was ended. Although miners at Coeur d' Alene experienced defeat. -
Japanese Immigrants came to the Us!
As a result, thousands of Japanese migrated on American sugar plantations. Wen the islands of Hawaii became a United States territory in 1898, many Japanese moved on to the US mainland. By 1900, more than 10,000 Japanese were living in the United States, mostly on the pacific coast. -
Transportation
Cheap, practical transportation had created a more mobile society. People could go back and forth from place to place. The transporting system had helped many people minimum wage paying employment. -
First Moving Assembly line
Henry Ford introduced the first moving assembly line in his automobile plant in Detroit, Michigan. A continuously moving belt carried parts past workers, each of whom performed one speciic task in the assembly proccess.
