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The riot started as a small street fight and then evolved into a citywide gang war. -
On December 24, 1865, a group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. -
The success of this business empire made Rockefeller one of the world's first billionaires. -
He made the first telephone days after he got the patent. -
Thousands of settlers raced to the newly opened Oklahoma Territory to claim cheap land. -
Ellis Island was the largest immigrant processing plant. It received over 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954. -
Baum assembled the book by hand and presented it to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. -
In 1901, financier JP Morgan formed the United States Steel Corporation, then the largest company in the world, through the merger of several steel companies. -
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States after the assassination of President William McKinley. -
The first car built by Ford was sold on June 16, 1903. -
Tarbell exposed Standard Oil Company's unfair practices, which led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly. -
The 16th Amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
About one million immigrants were processed at Angel Island but between 75 and 82 percent entered America. -
It allowed voters to cast direct votes for the U.S. senators -
Construction on the Empire State Building only took 13 and a half months.