Getting ready for the 20 th Century

New Inventions

McCormick’s Reaper

Reaper 1831 invented by Cyrus McCormick 1847 mass produces them Cut the crops Later inventions stacked and bundled the crops

Telegraph

Invented by Samuel Morse 1844 first transmission sent from Washington D.C. to Baltimore 1866 a transatlantic telegraph line is completed

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Telephone

Invented by Alexander Graham Bell 1876 received the patent for the telephone

Light bulb

1879 Thomas Edison Platinum light bulbs were already around Edison’s light bulbs were cheaper

Stratification of the Classes Ultra Rich Captains of Industry “Robber Barons” Middle Class Ultra Poor

Bill Gates Microsoft $101,000,000,000 in 1999 currently has $40,000,000,000

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Approximately $20,000,000,000

Andrew Carnegie U.S. Steel $298,300,000,000 $475,000,000

Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroad $143,000,000,000 $105,000,000

Rockefeller Standard Oil $663,400,000,000 $1,400,000, % of U.S. Economy

J.P. Morgan $1,390,000,000 Bailed out the Federal Government during the Panic of 1893

Middle Class Starts to emerge

First football game: Rutgers vs. Princeton

Cincinnati Red Stockings

Working Class

African Americans

Plessy v Ferguson 1896 Segregation “Separate but equal”

Booker T. Washington Founded the Tuskegee Institute Earn equality

W.E.B. DuBois Founded the NAACP Agitate for equality