U.S. History Unit 3 Part 1 By 3168296 1829 Cornelius Vanderbilt became a railroad tycoon 1831 Invention of the mechanical reaper 1850 J.P. Morgan became a robber baron in banking 1861 Beginning of the Civil War 1862 Homestead Act 1865 End of the Civil War 1869 Chinese workers helped build the Transcontinental Railroad 1870 John D. Rockefeller created his an oil company 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 1878 Thomas Edison invented the light bulb 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act passed 1889 Andrew Carnegie created a steel company 1892 Ellis Island opened 1901 Immigration Restriction Act passed 1903 The Wright Brothers invented the airplane 1904 First subway system created 1910 Urbanization began in America 1913 Henry Ford developed the assembly line 1924 Old Immigration Ended
