Industrialization & US Expansion Timeline

  • cotton gin

    Eli witneys cotton engine
  • Florida purchase

    this had given the U.S. control over the Mississippi
  • Texas annexation

    was only partially claimed to what we know now
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    mexico lost 55% of their territories
  • Jarvis Island

    we gained an uninhabited island
  • gaining Oregon

    was gained by the U.S. occupying there for long enough
  • Period: to

    Abraham lincoin's presidency

  • Period: to

    civil war

  • Period: to

    second battle of bull run

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    battle of Gettysburg

  • Lincoln's assassination

    Lincoln's assassination
  • the telegraph

    the telegraph
    the way you would send telegraphs is with an electrical on-off switch called a telegraph key
  • the Tungsram-bulb

    the Tungsram-bulb
    a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament.
  • Ford Model T

    Ford Model T
    generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans.
  • water softening

    water softening
    in order to lessen water based illnesses the US started focusing on bettering our water