Major
Events of the Industrial Revolution in the United States
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- first joint-stock
manufacturing company founded (1775)
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- the invention
of the cotton gin (Eli Whitney, 1793)
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- The Erie
Canal is opened (1825), launching the era of canal building
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- The Gold
Rush begins (1848)
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- first Trans-Continental
Railroad is completed (1869)
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- first automobile
created by Henry Ford, is finished (two o'clock a.m., June 4th, 1896)
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- Henry Ford
sets up the first automobile assembly line (1913)
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- millionth
Model T is produced (1915)
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- Black Tuesday
(1929), the stock market crashes and begins the Great Depression
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- more than
500, 000 workers quit their jobs, as there is an Industrial unrest (1936-37)
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