1830–1899 ∼ Moving across America
Steamboat era (1830–1930s) / Steam-powered railroad era (1840–1950s) / Orphan trains transport homeless or impoverished children from urban to rural areas (1853–1929) / Transcontinental railroad lines completed (1869) / Electric rail transport and gasoline-powered automobiles introduced (1880s) / Subway systems introduced (1890) / Modern submarines developed (1890s)
MILESTONES: Thousands of Native Americans die during forced relocation on the “trail of tears” (1831–1838) • Fugitive Slave Law requires people to return runaway slaves (1850) • First petroleum well discovered in Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake (1859) • The great cattle drives (1865–1870) • Thomas Edison invents the motion picture (1889)
1900–1919 ∼ Airplanes and Automobiles
New York introduces first law governing speed (1901) / Wright brothers’ gasoline-engine aircraft successfully flies at Kitty Hawk (1903) / President Theodore Roosevelt is first president to dive in a submarine (1905) / Alice Ramsey becomes the first woman to drive a car across the U.S., capturing Americans’ imagination and interest in automobiles (summer 1909) / Theodore Roosevelt is the first president to ride in an airplane (1910) / Airmail service inaugurated (1910) / First American transcontinental flight (1911) / Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman to earn a pilot’s license (1911) / Ford Motor Company initiates mass production of the automobile (1913) / Federal Aid Road Act begins government assistance to construct roads (1916)
MILESTONES: Mexicans strike against the Pacific Electric Railway company for equal wages and parity (1903) • Ford introduces the first inexpensive car, the Model T (1908) • Henry Ford institutes the five-dollar day for his factory workers (1914) • World War I provides new roles and opportunities for women (1917–1919) • Race riots erupt in St.
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