History timeline

  • Woman Suffrage

    Woman Suffrage
    Women split over Fourteenth and fifteenth amendments which granted equal rights including suffrage to African American men
  • Edwin L. Drake

    Edwin L. Drake
    Edwin Successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie
    Carnegie was managing the money he had earned in dividends that he happily left his job at the Pennsylvania Railroad
  • Japanese workers

    Japanese workers
    Japanese government allowed Hawaiian planters to recruit Japanese workers and a Japanese emigration boom began
  • Louis Sullivan

    Louis Sullivan
    L.S designed the ten story Wain Wright building in St. Louis
  • Wright brothers

    Wright brothers
    The brothers' successful flight came at their first plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
  • FTC

    FTC
    The Federal Trade Commission Act made itself the Federal trade Commision
  • Angel Island

    Angel Island
    More than 200,000 Japanese lived on the west coast on Angel Island.