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Timeline
Vivian Bevans
City at Night, ca. 1902
Color wood-block print
4 x 5 inches
Collection of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony of the Woodstock Guild, Alf Evers
Collection
Gift of The Douglas C. James Charitable Trust
Edna Walker
Ned
Thatcher at Forge
Charcoal
21 x 16 inches
Collection of Jean and Jim Young
Edward
Thatcher
Tin Train Engine Toy
11 x 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches
Collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock
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Immigration
1866-1915
more than 25 million immigrants enter U.S. from Southern and Eastern Europe,
Asia, and Latin America
1882
Exclusion act closes borders to the Chinese
1920
Quota system favors British, restricts others (lifted in 1965)
Rise
of Cities
1880-1900
Number of people living in U.S. cities doubled
Transportation
1825
New York State canals completed
1869
Transcontinental Rail Road completed
1900
4,000 cars in the United States
1903
Wright brothers first successful airplane flight
1920
9 million cars in U.S., assembly-line production, Henry Ford
Technology/Age
of Invention
1860-1890
Half million patents for new inventions
Industrial Revolution, new way of making steel – impact on railroads,
skyscrapers
1877
Edison invents the light bulb and phonograph
1899
Andrew Carnegie creates Carnegie Steel
1900
Kodak introduces its $1.00 Box Brownie camera, access to all
1900
800,000 telephones in use, 24 years after it was invented by Alexander
Graham Bell.
Reform
Movements of the Early 1900s
They fought for government regulations on: industry monopolies, child
labor, labor, alcohol consumption, voting rights for women. Included religious
revivals.
1909 NAACP founded. Began the anti-lynching movement
and fought for many other causes important to African-American citizens
including voting rights and combating Jim Crow laws. Social reformer Jane
Addams and educator John Dewey were among its founding members.
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Timeline
Sources
Davidson and Castillo, The American Nation: Beginnings Through 1877.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Garraty,
John A. The American Nation: A History of the United States Since
1865. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
www.pbs.org.
The American Experience, America 1900.
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