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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