Sophie, Cici, Leif, Nicolas, Matt 2nd Period #2: The evolution of the American economy (agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing). How have changes in markets, transportation and technology impacted society and the role of the U.S. government? Market Transportation Technology Triangle Trade ​
(1450­1750) (slaves, European goods, American agriculture) Columbian Exchange​
(1492) British Mercantilism​
(1600­1700’s) Hamiltonian Economy​
(1789­1795) national Siberian Land Bridge​
(12,000 years ago) Factories / Factory System (1790)​
­ slater Cotton Gin​
(1794) Exchangeable Parts ​
(1800) Assembly line (​
1800s​
) Telegraph ​
(1837) Typewriter​
(1867) Telephone​
(1876) The First Light Bulb ​
(1879) ­Thomas Edison final model after 6000 attempts Steel​
(1880) Mechanisation of the Factory System (​
1890) Floor/ middle managers ​
(1850) Ford Model T​
(1908)
1st Industrial Revolution​
(1790­ 1800) textile market, factory system in the north Comparative Advantage​
(1800’s) Market revolution (​
1815­1840)­department stores, catalogs, advertising Southern Agriculture​
­(colonial until around 1860) cotton boom Gilded Age ​
big business​
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(1870s­1900) standard oil, transcontinental railroad 2nd Industrial Revolution​
(1870­1914)steel, coal, telegraph Boxer Rebellion​
(1900)­ trade in China Imperialism​
­economic globalisation 1900’s Progressive era reform ​
( 1910­1920) Women Begin Working in Factories​
(1914) 1920’s​
­commodity industry Laissez Faire market​
­(boom in 1920s) credit Great Depression ​
(1930) New Deal​
(1933­1938)­ government involvement WWII Defense Industry (​
1930s and 40s)­ WWII trade with allies­​
military De Industrialisation​
(1970s)­ rust belt Cold War Defense Industry​
(1940s­1990s) OPEC oil crisis­​
lack of fuel Growth of the service industry​
(1980s) Reaganomics ​
(1980) Housing Crisis (​
2008) Slave ships​
(1619­1800’s) Mayflower ​
(1620) Great Wagon Road​
(1750) Mississippi river/New orleans (1803) Steam boat​
(1807) Erie Canal ​
(1817) Oregon Trail​
(1841) US annexation of Texas and CA​
(1845)­ranchland Turnpikes​
(1845) Refrigerated box car​
(1851) Transcontinental Railroad ​
(1863) Hawaii ​
(Pearl Harbor) (1898) Philippines​
(Manila port) (1902) The Wright’s demonstrate first airplane ​
(1909) Panama Canal​
(1914) Car​
(1920’s) Charles Lindbergh​
(1927) National Highways ​
(cold war 1950’s)Interstate highway act (1956) Space shuttle​
(1969) Japanese car surge ​
(1970’s) Electric vehicle boom​
(2008) Credit​
(1920) Common household appliances​
: (1920s) ○ electricity ○ Washing machine ○ Toaster ○ Refrigerator ○ Radio ○ TV Airplane​
(1906) First Solar Panel ​
(1954) The Pill​
(1954) Space Race ​
(1960s) ● Space shuttle ● First man in space ● First man on moon ● Industrial Robots (1960) ● Star Wars initiative (1960) First Portable Phone​
(1973) Personal Computer​
(1980’s) First Smartphone ​
(1992) Sophie, Cici, Leif, Nicolas, Matt 2nd Period