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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.
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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.
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Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone on March 7, 1876, after filing a patent application just weeks earlier. His patent, No. 174,465, was for an "Improvement in Telegraphy" that allowed for the transmission of speech. Just days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell successfully made the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas Watson.
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when approximately 50,000 people raced to claim homesteads and town lots in the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory. Authorized by President Benjamin Harrison, the event was triggered by the opening of nearly two million acres of federally held land to legal white settlement. A bugle and a cannon at noon signaled the start of the race, which saw settlers on horseback, in wagons, and on foot, 02trying to stake a claim to 160-acre plots of land by paying a $14 filing fee.
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officially opened to immigrants on January 1, 1892. Over the next 62 years, it processed over 12 million immigrants arriving in the United States from Europe. The first immigrant to pass through the station was a 15-year-old girl named Annie Moore.
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Standard Oil Company was incorporated in Ohio in 1870, but the company's origins date to 1863, when John D. Rockefeller joined Maurice B. Clark and Samuel Andrews in a Cleveland, Ohio, oil-refining business. Rockefeller bought out Clark in 1865
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book commonly known as The Wizard of Oz, was written by L. Frank Baum and first published on September 1, 1900, by the George M. Hill Companyin Chicago and New York. Illustrated by W. W. Denslow, the novel became an immediate classic, leading to a successful Broadway musical in 1902 and several sequels written by Baum.
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J.P. Morgan, along with Charles Schwab, founded U.S. Steel in 1901 by acquiring Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company and merging it with other steel and iron businesses. This massive consolidation formed the United States Steel Corporation, which was then the largest company in the world.
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Theodore Roosevelt became president on September 14, 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley. Roosevelt had been serving as vice president under McKinley and assumed the presidency upon McKinley's death, becoming the nation's 26th president
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Ida Tarbell *published her seminal articles exposing the monopolistic practices of the Standard Oil Company in McClure's Magazine starting in 1902, and they were compiled into the best-selling two-volume book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, in 1904. Her meticulous, muckraking journalism detailed how Standard Oil used unfair tactics to dominate the oil industry, ultimately contributing to public outrage and leading to the company's eventual breakup under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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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.
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The Sixteenth Amendment, which allows the federal government to collect an income tax without being dependent on state population, was passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified on February 3, 1913, becoming effective in 1913. This amendment reversed a previous Supreme Court decision and permanently established the federal income tax as a major source of federal revenue and a cornerstone of the U.S. government's ability to fund its operations
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Angel Island, located in San Francisco Bay, opened as an immigration processing and detention center on January 21, 1910, serving as the primary port for most immigrants on the West Coast until November 5, 1940. It processed approximately 175,000 to 300,000 immigrants, primarily Chinese, who were subjected to invasive medical inspections, lengthy interrogations, and detention that could last for months or even years, particularly under the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 17 – “Direct Election of Senators” Amendment Seventeen to the Constitution was ratified on April 8, 1913. It overrides the previous Constitution's provisions on the election of senators, changing it so that they are elected directly by the voting public during elections.
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The Empire State Building officially opened to the public on May 1, 1931. President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C. to turn on the building's lights, marking the grand opening