1. Getting ready for the 20 th Century

2. New Inventions

3. McCormick’s Reaper

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

5. Telegraph

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

7. Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

8. Telephone

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

10. Light bulb

11. 1879 Thomas Edison Platinum light bulbs were already around Edison’s light bulbs were cheaper

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

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

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

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

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

21. Rockefeller Standard Oil $663,400,000,000 $1,400,000,000 1.5% of U.S. Economy

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

24. Middle Class Starts to emerge

26. First football game: Rutgers vs. Princeton

27. Cincinnati Red Stockings

28. Working Class

31. African Americans

38. Plessy v Ferguson 1896 Segregation “Separate but equal”

42. Booker T. Washington Founded the Tuskegee Institute Earn equality

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