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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 -
The Ku Klux Klan, AKA the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. -
The success of this business empire made Rockefeller one of the world's first billionaires and a celebrated philanthropist. -
Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson. -
Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. -
The new structure on Ellis Island began receiving arriving immigrants -
It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home. -
J. P. Morgan, 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. -
In 1901, Tarbell began to investigate Standard Oil; her articles appeared in every issue of McClure's between November 1902 and May 1904 and were collected into a book in November 1904. -
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. -
September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley and ended on March 4, 1909. -
The 16th Amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
Access to and from the Island was very important to control and enforce the relatively new immigration laws -
General Records of the U.S. Government, Record Group 11, National Archives -
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of New York.