• Great Chicago fire

    Great Chicago fire
    The Great Chicago fire happened during the gilded age when everything was made by wood. There was a big drought and very bad pollution at the time. When the fire started in a barn it quickly spread to over 1,000 acres of land and killed about 300 people.
  • Invention of a Car

  • Johnstown Flood

  • basketball

    basketball
  • Modern Olympics

    Modern Olympics
  • Subway invented

  • Food and Drug Administration

  • Great San Francisco Earthquake

  • Sinking of the Titanic

    Sinking of the Titanic
  • Panama Canal