Getting ready for the 20 th Century

1. Getting ready for the 20th 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. Telegraph • 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. Telephone • 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 GatesMicrosoft $101,000,000,000 in 1999 currently has $40,000,000,000

18. Mark ZuckerbergFacebook Approximately $20,000,000,000

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

20. Cornelius VanderbiltRailroad $143,000,000,000 $105,000,000

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

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

32. African Americans

38. Plessyv 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