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Start of Industial Revolution
The start of large use of factories and producing products in large quanities called mass production. Techniques where formed like division of labor to improve the speed of production. America trasitioned from an agricultural country to an idustrial country. -
Start of Mass Imigration
Immigrants from several different countries came to America by ship. The condition wereterrible but America was seen as "The Land of Oppertunity". Immigrants helped the industrial revolution because they filled in factory or railroad jobs. Immigrants came in through the Ellis Island or Angel Island ports. -
Invention of the Sewing Machine
The sewing machine greatly improved the speed of sewing. It increased the amount of sweatshops or factories that produce clothing. -
The California Gold Rush
The gold rush is a famous event in U.S. history. Many peoplespent nearly alltheir money to travel to California in hopes of finding gold. The gold rush was a big reason a lot of immigrants came to America. -
Founding of Yosemite National Park
The Yosemite National Park in California is a beautiful national park withtons of wilderness still open today. This park opened as work for conservation. -
Carnegie Steel Company
Created by Andrew Carnegie was the Carnegie Steel Company. The company building was a large sky scraper called the Carnegie Tower. The Carnegie Steel Company was one of the first and biggest monopolies to start in the Indusrial Revolution -
Ellis Island
Ellis island is a famous immigrant inspection port that millions of immigrants where sent to. The first thing immigrants would see when they arrived was the Statue of Liberty. The conditions of the port where extremely terrible for the immigrants. Though Ellis Island increased the amount of immigrants entering the U.S. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act banned the Chinese from immigrating to the U.S because they were taking up jobs that Americans needed. Americans where prejudice against the Chinese.They where considered unskilled and unintelligent. This increased the racial tension in the U.S. -
Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most famous presidents and was president during the Progressive Era. He was known as the trust buster because he broke up monopoly trusts. Monopolies where owned by either a Robber Baron who was greedy or a Captain of Indusrty who donated to the puplic. Trust where bad for the economy. -
The First Airplane
A step in the Progressive Era was improving the transportation. The first plane was made shortly before the Model T. This was a great movement in the transportation of the time period. -
Invention of the Model T
The Model T was the first affordable car for the average American. It was created by Henry Ford. It madea huge impact in American cluture for it was a new popular form of transportation. This was huge progress for the Industrial Revolution. -
National Conservation Commission of 1909
The National Conservation Commission of 1909 was passed to improve wildlife with conservation during the Progressive Era. Consevation was important during this time because of the damge to the envirement from the factories during the industial revolution. -
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire
Fire caused in poor factory conditions, 146 people died. Most burned to death, jumped out a window or felll down the elevator chute. This event occured in New York City. The fire could have been prevented if the work conditin where safer. -
Women Suffrage
Women gained the right to vote in 19th amendment of the constitution. It was a huge debate during the Progressive Era. One of the most famous women during that time period was Susan B. Anthony who wirked for women suffrage to happen. Women suffrage was a huge movement for the Progressive Era. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act was passed by Theodore Rossevelt and was a big move in the Progressive Era. This document inclused the minimum wage law child labor law, and and hour divison. This was a huge improvement to work conditions
