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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. -
Teddy Roosevelt becomes the 26th U.S. President in September 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley. He had been serving as Vice President and was the youngest president at age 42. Roosevelt then served out McKinley's term and was reelected for a full term in 1904, serving until 1909, leaving a significant legacy of progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy. -
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, 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. -
The company was formed by transforming Rockefeller's existing oil refinery partnership into a joint-stock corporation to facilitate the purchase of competing refineries. -
This patent secured his rights to the invention and was followed three days later by the first recognized telephone call on March 10, 1876, when Bell spoke to his assistant Thomas Watson. -
the first of several land runs where the U.s. government opened formely Indian territory to non- Native American settlement -
first and largest federal immigrants station in the United States -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. -
J.P. Morgan's financing for U.S. Steel occurred in 1901 when he orchestrated the creation of the United States Steel Corporation by merging Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and other steel companies. This pivotal event created the world's first billion-dollar corporation -
This investigative journalism helped to expose monopolistic practices and led to the eventual breakup of the Standard Oil Company. -
The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln brand. -
The Sixteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to collect taxes on income without apportioning them by state population -
primarily designed to process and detain Chinese immigrants to enforce restrictive immigration laws, particularly the Chinese Exclusion Act, and to investigate claims of fraudulent entry. -
Direct election of United States senators in each state. -
The Empire State Building officially opened to the public and was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover