American history By sammy1034 1800 Labor unions started late 1800s 1820 Missouri compromise 1833 McCormick Reaper 1835 Steel plow 1836 Thresher 1844 Telegraph Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican war 1847 Sewing machine 1849 Gold rush 1849 Harriet Tubman 1849 Safety pin 1855 Skyscraper 1859 Oil well drill 1861 Fort Sumter Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War Period: 1862 to 1879 Homesteading the plains Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Period: 1866 to 1886 Cattle drives in Great Plains 1867 Alaska was purchased 1867 Typewriter 1869 First transcontinental railroad 1869 Suez Canal opens 1869 Air brakes (RR) Period: 1870 to 1924 Massive immigration to America 1871 Barbed wire 1873 Carnegie builds steel mill 1874 Harvester Period: 1874 to 1881 Plains Wars 1876 Telephone 1876 First telephone conversation Alexander graham bell 1877 Phonograph 1878 Edison invents electric light bulb 1879 Lightbulb Period: 1880 to 1890 Electricity for cities 1881 The combine 1883 Signals and switches Period: 1883 to 1914 Jim Crow Laws created 1889 Kodak camera Period: 1890 to 1910 Progressive era 1893 The Panic of 1893 1895 Automobile is patented 1898 Hawaii becomes U.S. possession 1898 Spanish American War 1898 U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands 1900 United States has become a world power 1901 U.S. takes over Panama Canal reconstruction 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 Airplane 1903 Wright brothers make first airplane fly 1908 First mass produced car 1913 Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line 1914 U.S. opens the Panama Canal Period: 1914 to 1918 World war 1 1917 Russian revolution Period: 1929 to 1941 World-wide depression Period: 1939 to 1945 World war 2 1945 First atomic bomb exploded 1946 Beginning of cold war Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1950 to 1960 American Civil rights movement 1959 Cuban revolution 1963 Assassination of kennedy Period: 1965 to 1973 Vietnam war 1989 Collapse of communism in europe 1991 End of Cold War and breakup of Soviet Union 1992 Formation of the European Union 2001 Terrorists successfully attack American landmarks 2002 EU adopts the euro Period: 2003 to 2011 Iraq war 2008 Election of Obama
