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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, 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 -
eliminate destructive competition through vertical integration and efficiency, leading Standard Oil to acquire most of its rivals and gain a near-monopoly over the U.S. oil industry by 1880 -
Alexander Graham Bell received U.S. Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone on March 7, 1876, securing his claim to the invention after filing his application just weeks earlier on February 14, 1876 -
a pivotal event on April 22, 1889, when nearly 2 million acres of previously unassigned land in the Indian Territory were opened to non-Native settlement -
Ellis Island, the primary federal immigration processing station for the United States, officially opened on January 1, 1892. Located in New York Harbor -
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 -
P. Morgan did not technically "found" U.S. Steel; rather, he orchestrated its formation in 1901 by merging several existing steel companies, most notably Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel, into a single corporate entity -
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. -
The History of the Standard Oil Company, as a series of articles in McClure's magazine starting in 1902, with the serialized parts culminating in the book's publication in 1904 -
The Ford Motor Company is an American automaker, the world's fifth largest based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, it was founded by Henry Ford on June 16, 1903 -
to allow the federal government to levy an income tax on individuals and corporations without apportionment among the states -
serving as the main processing and detention center for immigrants on the West Coast until its closure on November 5, 1940 -
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, with President Herbert Hoover pressing a button from the White House to illuminate the building's lights. The event marked the completion of construction, which began in March 1930 and took a record-breaking 13.5 months to finish