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Cornelius Vanderbilt became a railroad tycoon
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Invention of the mechanical reaper
he mechanical reaper was invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 -
John D. Rockefeller created his an oil company
He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company. -
Beginning of the Civil War
The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861 -
Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act -
End of the Civil War
The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse -
Chinese workers helped build the Transcontinental Railroad
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Andrew Carnegie created a steel company
Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few decades, he created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel making. -
Old Immigration Ended
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone -
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
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Chinese Exclusion Act passed
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Ellis Island opened
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station -
First subway system created
Boston built the first subway in the United States -
Immigration Restriction Act passed
was drafted and passed in the House of Representatives in Federal Parliament -
The Wright Brothers invented the airplane
made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. -
J.P. Morgan became a robber baron in banking
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Urbanization began in America
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Henry Ford developed the assembly line
installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. -
New Immigration Ended
