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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 -
The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt started on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley -
commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, terrorist organizations, and hate groups. -
was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States. -
Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery -
it was a very chaotic day. men and women would rush to claim homesteads or purchase lots of new towns and spring into the night. -
The Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants was an immigration station. If an immigration paper was in order and in a good reasonable, healthy condition the inspection lasted 3 go 5 hours. -
The first edition had a printing of 10,000 copies and was sold in advance of the publication date of September 1, 1900. -
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. -
Henry and 12 others invested $28,000 and created Ford Motor Company. The first car built by the Company was sold July 15, 1903. -
her articles appeared in every issue of McClure's between November 1902 and May 1904 and were collected into a book in November 1904. -
Access to and from the Island was critical to control and enforce the relatively new immigration laws and deal with the threat of disease from the many new people arriving daily in America. -
removing from state legislatures the power to choose U.S Senators would make state democracy work better allowing voters to focus on state issues when choosing state officials. -
and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
Construction started on March 17, 1930 and the building opened thirteen months afterward on May 1, 1931 despite favorable related to the building's construction because of the Great Depression and World War II