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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, which occurred July 4–5, 1857. -
The Ku Klux Klan, also commonly shortened to the Klan, is an American Protestant-led white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. -
John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Company on January 10, 1870, with his brother William, Henry M. Flagler, and others. The company was initially capitalized at $1 million and grew by acquiring competitors, leading to a near-monopoly in the U.S. oil refining industry by 1880. In 1882, the company's properties were merged into the Standard Oil Trust, which was later dissolved by the Supreme Court in 1911 for violating antitrust laws. -
Alexander Graham Bell was granted the U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876, for his invention, titled "Improvement in Telegraphy". The patent application was filed just a few hours before Elisha Gray filed a similar application on the same day, a detail that later became part of the controversy surrounding the invention. -
Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 : r/unitedstatesofamericaThe Oklahoma Land Rush was a series of events where the U.S. government opened up millions of acres of formerly Native American land for settlement, starting with the first and most famous rush on April 22, 1889 -
Ellis Island opened to process immigrants on January 1, 1892, becoming the main entry point for over 12 million people seeking a new life in the United States. The first immigrant processed was a teenage girl from Ireland named Annie Moore. The immigration station closed in 1954 after 62 years of operation -
The original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum was released on May 17, 1900, with the first copies going to print that day and publicly released to the public on September 1, 1900. The first edition was published by the George M. Hill Company, and subsequent editions and related books were released in the following years -
Yes, J.P. Morgan "founded" U.S. Steel in 1901 by orchestrating the merger of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel, Morgan's Federal Steel, and other smaller steel firms, creating the world's first billion-dollar corporation and a giant in American industry, a deal where Carnegie retired a very wealthy man. -
Theodore Roosevelt became president on September 14, 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley. He was the Vice President under McKinley and, at age 42, became the youngest person to assume the office of president. He was later elected to a full term in 1904, serving until 1909. -
Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903, in Detroit, Michigan, with a vision to build affordable cars for the masses, a goal realized with the popular Model T and revolutionary assembly line. Starting with just 10 employees and a $28,000 investment, the company incorporated and sold its first car that same year, becoming a global automotive leader. -
The 16th Amendment, granting Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportionment among states, was passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified on February 3, 1913, establishing the modern federal income tax system and fundamentally changing federal funding by allowing direct taxation of citizens' incomes. -
Angel Island Immigration Station opened on January 21, 1910, in San Francisco Bay as the West Coast's main port for processing immigrants, primarily to enforce the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act, detaining and interrogating Asian and Pacific Islander arrivals for extended periods, unlike Ellis Island which welcomed most -
Ida Tarbell published her groundbreaking exposé, The History of the Standard Oil Company, as a 19-part series in McClure's Magazine between 1902 and 1904, revealing the ruthless, monopolistic tactics of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil through meticulous research, interviews, and public records, becoming a landmark of muckraking journalism that ultimately influenced the 1911 Supreme Court decision to break up the trust. -
The Constitution, as it was adopted in 1788, made the Senate an assembly where the states would have equal representation. Each state legislature would elect two senators to six-year terms. Late in the 19th century, some state legislatures deadlocked over the election of a senator when different parties controlled different houses — Senate vacancies could last months or years -
The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931. President Herbert Hoover symbolically flipped a switch from Washington, D.C., to turn on the building's lights. Despite opening ahead of schedule and under budget, it was initially nicknamed the "Empty State Building" because many of its offices remained vacant during the Great Depression.