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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 -
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of an American white supremacist, far-right hate group. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group -
John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company on January 10, 1870, with his business partners and brother -
Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery -
was a day of chaos, excitement, and utter confusion. Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. -
Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, is the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy immediate success upon publication. -
. P. Morgan formed U.S. Steel on March 2, 1901 (incorporated on February 25, 1901), by financing the merger of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Elbert H. -
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley -
first serialized in McClure's Magazine in 1902 and then published as a best-selling book in 1904. -
Henry and 12 others invested $28,000 and created Ford Motor Company. The company's first car, built in 1903, was sold on July 15, 1903. -
Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
over the late objections of the Chinese community. The Administration Building was the first stop on disembarking at the pier on Angel Island. -
the 17th Amendment modified Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators. -
the Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931.