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The dead rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war -
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supermacist, far-right hate group -
John D. Rockefeller, along with his partners formed the Standard Oil Company in Ohio with an initial capital $1 million. The company, which was the culmination of earlier partnerships, rapidly grew to control the vast majority of the oil refining -
Alexander Graham Bell was granted patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876. He filled his patent application on the same day another inventor, Elisha Gray filed for a similar device -
This race was a series of events between 1889 and 1895 when the U.S. government opened millions of acres of previously Native American-held land for non-native American settlement -
This island was the primary federal immigration station for the United States, and it officially opened on January 1, 1892. This facility processed more than 12,000,000 immigrants over its 62 years of operation -
The wonderful wizard of oz is a 1900 children’s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W.Denslow -
J.P. Morgan did not directly found U.S. Steel but rather financed its formation in 1901 by acquiring Andrew Carnegie’s Steel Company and merging it with other steel producers to create the U.S. Steel Corporation -
Teddy Roosevelt became 26th president of the United States on September 14, 1901 Roosevelt, a republican took office upon assassination of President William McKinley, under whom he had served as vice president, and secured a full term in the 1904 election -
ida tarbell’s series of articles documenting the Standard Oil Company began appearing in McClure’s Magazine in 1902 -
Ford Motor Company is an American automaker, the world’s fifth largest based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb in Detroit, it was founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903 -
This island opened as a U.S. immigration station to process immigrants on the West Coast, primarily serving as a detention and interrogation center for Chinese immigrants entering the United States -
The amendment was proposed by the 62nd Congress in 1912 and became part of the constitution on April 8, 1913. -
the 16th amendment was passed to establish the U.S. Congress’s power to levy a federal income tax without apportionment among the states -
This famous New York building officially opened to the public on May 1 1931, after a rapid construction period of just 13.5 months, with then-President Herbert Hoover pressing a button from the White House to turn on its lights