Getting ready for the 20th Century

New Inventions

McCormick’s Reaper

Reaper1831 invented by Cyrus McCormick1847 mass produces themCut the cropsLater inventions stacked and bundled the crops

Telegraph

TelegraphInvented by Samuel Morse1844 first transmission sent from Washington D.C. to Baltimore1866 a transatlantic telegraph line is completed

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Telephone

TelephoneInvented by Alexander Graham Bell1876 received the patent for the telephone

Light bulb

1879Thomas EdisonPlatinum light bulbs were already aroundEdison’s light bulbs were cheaper

Stratification of the Classes

Ultra Rich Captains of Industry“Robber Barons”

Middle ClassUltra Poor

Bill GatesMicrosoft

$101,000,000,000 in 1999 currently has $40,000,000,000

Mark ZuckerbergFacebook

Approximately $20,000,000,000

Andrew Carnegie U.S. Steel

$298,300,000,000 $475,000,000

Cornelius VanderbiltRailroad

$143,000,000,000$105,000,000

RockefellerStandard Oil

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

J.P. Morgan

$1,390,000,000Bailed out the Federal Government during the Panic of 1893

Middle ClassStarts to emerge

First football game: Rutgers vs. Princeton

Cincinnati Red Stockings

Working Class

African Americans

African Americans

Plessy v Ferguson1896Segregation“Separate but equal”

Booker T. WashingtonFounded the Tuskegee InstituteEarn equality

W.E.B. DuBoisFounded the NAACPAgitate for equality