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The July 4, 1857 Dead Rabbit-Bowery Boy Riot in the Five Points district of lower Manhattan is one of those rare occasions when the spotlight of national attention was cast on gangs, offering Americans, along with accurate and fanciful accounts of gang warfare, visual representations of these notorious urban denizens. -
n D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Company in 1870 by incorporating the Rockefeller, Andrews, and Flagler firm -
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the patent for his telephone on March 7, 1876, in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Patent Office -
Ellis Island opened to process immigrants on January 1, 1892, serving as the primary federal immigration station for over 12 million people until its closure in 1954. -
The Great Oklahoma Land Race refers to a series of land rushes, but most prominently the largest, the Cherokee Strip Land Run on September 16, 1893 -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum was first published on May 17, 1900, by the George M. Hill Company, in Chicago, Illinois, though the publisher was also based in New York. A first copy came off the press on that date, with public release starting shortly after. -
J.P. Morgan "founded" the U.S. Steel Corporation in February 1901 by merging Carnegie Steel with other companies, including his own Federal Steel Company, creating the world's first billion-dollar corporation. -
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States in Buffalo, New York, on September 14, 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley. Roosevelt, then Vice President, was sworn into office at the Ansley Wilcox House on the day of McKinley's death -
Ida Tarbell published her series of articles exposing the Standard Oil Company, titled The History of the Standard Oil Company, in McClure's Magazine between November 1902 and October 1904 -
Ford Motor Company was founded on June 16, 1903, in Dearborn, Michigan, by Henry Ford and eleven investors, with the goal of producing affordable automobiles for the masses. -
The Angel Island Immigration Station opened in January 1910 on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay to serve as the primary U.S. immigration processing center on the West Coast -
Passed by Congress on May 13, 1912, and ratified on April 8, 1913, the 17th Amendment -
The 16th Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1909 and ratified on February 3, 1913, establishing the federal government's power to collect income taxes without apportioning them based on state population -
The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, with a dedication ceremony where President Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights from the White House -
The "Kuklux Clan" is formed by six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, to resist federal Reconstruction efforts and maintain white supremacy across the South.