Immigration to America

Mass migration from Europe to America begins as people look for a better life.

United States becomes the world’s biggest cotton producer.

First Railway station opens in Baltimore, Maryland.

Railway tracks go from 100 to 3,500 miles. United States has 1,200 cotton factories. Increased use of factory-made farm machinery encourages the beginning of commercial farming.

America settlers begin mass migration westward on the Oregon Trail Potato Famine in Europe and Ireland causes starvation and mass migration to United States. Many will settle on small family farms.

Commercial corn and wheat belts begin to develop across the south and great plains. Gold rush is taking place in California. Cholera epidemic continuers in the united states

World trade increases almost 5 times of what it was in 1800. First successful oil well is drilled in Pennsylvania.

Abraham Lincoln becomes president.

First paper money is issued in the United States. The Homestead act gave free land to persons willing to farm it.

Civil war ends. President Lincoln is assassinated. The sharecropping system in the south replaces the old slave plantation system.

The Great Chicago fire will destroy most of the city . The increased use of barbed wire fencing ends an era of open range grazing.

The light bulb is invented, and the telephone will come the next year.

Southern states have abandoned their dependence on growing cotton to maintain their economy. The first subway is built in Boston.