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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
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American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South.
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John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Company in 1870 as a joint-stock company with $1 million in capital, growing it into a powerful oil refining and transportation monopoly
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provided him with the legal rights to the invention. Just three days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell made the first successful telephone call to his assistant, Thomas Watson, famously saying, "Mr Watson, come here—I want to see you".
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where the U.S. government opened nearly two million acres of what was then the Indian Territory to white settlement.
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Was an immigration station that processed imigrants
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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.
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Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as the 26th president of the United States began on September 14, 1901, and expired on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt, a Republican, took office upon the assassination of President William McKinley, under whom he had served as vice president, and secured a full term in the 1904 election.
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This comprehensive exposé detailed the unethical and monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and was later published as a best-selling book in 1904
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Henry Ford founded the company and successfully used the conveyer to manufacture cars
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They processed and detained immigrants
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Voters have selected U.S. senators in the privacy of the voting booth since 1913. This system of “direct election” was not what the framers of the U.S.
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Congress the power to levy a federal income tax without being based on population.
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This historic deal, which also included firms like American Bridge and American Steel and Wire, established the world's largest company at the time and was a pivotal moment in the American industrial age.
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President Herbert Hoover pressing a button in Washington, D.C., to turn on its lights.