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The “Dead Rabbits” were beaten and retired, yelling and firing revolvers in the air, and attacking everybody that came in their way. -
Ida Tarbell became one of the most famous "muckraking" journalists in 19th century America, thanks largely to her investigation of the Standard Oil Company. -
KKK Gathering. The Ku Klux Klan was founded at the end of the United States Civil War to repress the rights and freedoms of African Americans. -
Standard Oil's humble beginning. Unlike most oil men, Rockefeller was no wildcatter. He believed drilling for oil was a very risky business. -
On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. -
Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight -
The 14th and final “Oz” book written by Baum, “Glinda of Oz,” was published in 1920, a year after his death -
arly in 1901, J. P. Morgan, the country's most powerful banker, merged Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Corporation with nine other steel companies -
Roosevelt was elected to a full term in 1904 and promoted policies more to the left, despite growing opposition from Republican leaders. -
The Ford Motor Company was officially incorporated in 1903, when founder Henry Ford launched his venture in a converted factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. -
Angel Island Immigration Station was opened in 1910 largely because of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other laws -
Connecticut's approval on April 8, 1913, gave the Seventeenth Amendment the required three-fourths majority needed for ratification. -
It grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population. -
The Empire State Building is a steel-framed skyscraper rising 102 stories that was completed in New York City in 1931 and was the tallest building in the world until 1971 -
From the years 1892 to 1924, Ellis Island was America's largest and most active immigration station.