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The Boston Massacre
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Merchant Era
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The American Revolutionary War began
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First bank of America was built
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First stock market
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Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
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Africa's slave trade closed
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Panic of 1837
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Procter & Gamble Company created
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
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American Express Company formed
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Corporate Era
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Bell Telephone Company is formed
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First successful Kodak appears on marker
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Pepsi was created
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Ford Motor Company founded
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Warner Brothers show their first film
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Supreme Court orders the breakup of Standard Oil
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Ford introduced the Assembly Line
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Disney Bothers Studios was formed
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First Electronic Television was invented
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Earl S. Tupper Company is formed
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Consumer Era
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Chrysler, GM and Ford convert to military production
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The transistor is invented
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First Japanese car, a Toyota, sold in the US
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Bank of America launches first credit card
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Kroc takes full control of the McDonalds Corporation
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First Walmart
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Equal Pay Act
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First Starbucks opens in Seattle
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First cell phone
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Microsoft
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple
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Ted Turner starts CNN
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Global Era
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Apple introduces the Macintosh computer
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Vera Wang Bridal House opens in NY
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DreamWorks is formed
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Jeff Bezos opens Amazon.com on the Internet
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Microsoft & General Electric launch MSNBC
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Dayton Hudson changes its name to Target
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Amazon posts its first profit, $5.1 million
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September 11 Attacks
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Great Recession officially ends
