Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities
1831 Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper 1834 National Trades Union is started 1835 Lucy Larcom goes to work in a Massachusetts mill 1837 John Deere invents the first steel plow 1838 Caulkers Association union is formed 1843 Dorothea Dix reports on conditions of the mentally ill in the state of Massachusetts 1844 Samuel B Morse sends the first telegram 1846 Elias Howe develops a sewing machine 1860 Pony Express moves mail cross country 1861 Civil War 1865 1868 Isaac Myers starts the Colored
Trade Union Society of Baltimore 1869 Knights of Labor forms Colored National Labor Union is started Transcontinental Railroad is completed III TTE I III IT III If PIT IN IIIIIIIIIII I III III II IT IN II III III II I III E AEG THE 1873 Economic depression Panic of 1873 hits 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone American Centennial Exhibition is held in Philadelphia 1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to US government Great Railroad Strike occurs Thomas Edison files a patent for
the phonograph 1879 College football debuts 1880 Thomas Edison develops an electric lightbulb John D Rockefeller’s Standard Oil owns 90 percent of oil refineries in the United States 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is passed 1884 First skyscraper is built in Chicago 1886 American Federation of Labor forms Haymarket Riot occurs 1889 Jane Addams establishes Hull House 1891 James Naismith invents the game of basketball 1892 Carnegie Steel Company is the largest US steel maker Homestead Strike occurs 1893 Economic depression Panic of 1893 hits Chicago hosts the World's Columbian Exposition Illinois governor pardons surviving Haymarket Riot participants 1894 Pullman Strike occurs 1897 Nation's first subway is completed in Boston 1899 First juvenile court system is established in Illinois Marshall Taylor wins the world one mile track cycling championship 1901 Pan American Exposition is held in Buffalo New York President William McKinley is assassinated
1903 Wright Brothers complete the first successful airplane flight 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition is held in St Louis Missouri 1905 Bessie Moore becomes the first woman to win the US Women's Singles Championship four times 1906 Upton Sinclair shocks readers with his book The Jungle Pure Food and Drug Act is enacted 1913 Henry Ford sets up the first assembly line to manufacture cars IS IDY
