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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
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The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
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The success of this business empire made Rockefeller one of the world's first billionaires and a celebrated philanthropist.
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Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery
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Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. An estimated eleven thousand agricultural homesteads were claimed.
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Annie Moore, a teenage girl from Ireland, accompanied by her two younger brothers, made history as the very first immigrant to be processed at Ellis
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the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy an immediate success upon publication.
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the country's most powerful banker, merged Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Corporation with nine other steel companies to form the world's largest corporation.
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Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley. Roosevelt had been the vice president for only 194 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
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Tarbell began to investigate Standard Oil; her articles appeared in every issue of McClure's
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when founder Henry Ford launched his venture in a converted factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. It was his third attempt at establishing an automotive business.
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The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
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After numerous delays in the construction, the immigration station was hastily completed and opened on January 21, 1910 on the northeastern edge of Angel Island.
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The Seventeenth Amendment restates the first paragraph of Article I, section 3 of the Constitution and provides for the election of senators by replacing the phrase “chosen by the Legislature thereof” with “elected by the people thereof.”
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the immense skyscraper took less time than anyone could have anticipated, concluding after only 410 days.