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The Dead Rabbits were so named after a dead rabbit was thrown into the center of the room during a gang meeting, prompting some members to treat this as an omen, withdraw, and form an independent gang. Their battle symbol was a dead rabbit on a pike.
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The Dead Rabbits were so named after a dead rabbit was thrown into the center of the room during a gang meeting, prompting some members to treat this as an omen, withdraw, and form an independent gang. Their battle symbol was a dead rabbit on a pike.
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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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John D. Rockefeller officially created the Standard Oil Company in 1870
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Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone on March 7, 1876, receiving U.S. Patent No. 174,465. This groundbreaking patent, titled an "Improvement in Telegraphy," secured Bell's rights to the invention, which allowed for the first successful, albeit crackly, intelligible speech to be transmitted over a wire three days later
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The Great Oklahoma Land Race, or Oklahoma Land Rush, refers to several events between 1889 and 1895 when the U.S. government opened former Native American territory in present-day Oklahoma to non-Native settlement
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Ellis Island, the new federal immigration station, officially opened to process immigrants on January 1, 1892. Located in New York Harbor, the facility was the principal entry point for over 12 million immigrants to the United States over the next 62 years. The processing involved medical and legal inspections to determine admissibility into the country
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. 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 by a cyclone
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J.P. Morgan did not found U.S. Steel in the sense of creating it from scratch, but rather orchestrated the 1901 merger that formed the company by combining Carnegie Steel and other steel and steel-related companies, creating the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Morgan acquired Andrew Carnegie's vast steel holdings for $492 million and then merged them with other firms, including Federal Steel, to establish the United States Steel Corporation
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Theodore Roosevelt's tenure as the 26th president of the United States began on September 14, 1901, and expired on March 4, 1909. Roosevelt, a Republican, took office upon the assassination of President William McKinley, under whom he had served as vice president, and secured a full term in the 1904 election
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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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Ida Tarbell published her seminal work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, in 1904 after it was first serialized in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904. This two-volume book detailed the predatory practices of John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly and was a masterpiece of investigative journalism that exposed the corruption within the powerful trust
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Ida Tarbell's influential exposé, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," was first published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine starting in 1902, and was released in two volumes as a best-selling book in 1904. Her meticulous investigation revealed John D. Rockefeller's company's predatory business practices, contributing significantly to public outcry and the eventual dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly
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The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states, was passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified on February 3, 1913. This landmark amendment was enacted to overturn the Supreme Court's 1895 decision in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Trust Co
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Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910, to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated.
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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state.
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The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes Article I, Section
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The 16th Amendment was officially passed and ratified in 1913, establishing the federal government's power to collect an income tax without regard to population, effectively reversing a prior Supreme Court decision and funding the expansion of the federal government. Congress passed the amendment in 1909 in response to the Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Trust Co. case, which had made a nationwide income tax unconstitutional. On February 3, 1913,
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The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, with a ceremonial button push by President Herbert Hoover that turned on the building's lights from Washington, D.C. Construction of the iconic Art Deco skyscraper, which had started on March 17, 1930, was completed in just over a year, making it the tallest building in the world at the time