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Immigration and Industrialization Timeline

  • The Dead Rabbits Riot

    The Dead Rabbits Riot

    Gang war. 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 battle
  • The Ku Klux Klan is Established

    The Ku Klux Klan is Established

    White supremacist.
  • John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil

    To give Standard Oil an edge over its competitors Rockefeller secretly arranged for discounted shipping rates from railroads. The railroads carried crude oil to Standard's refineries in Cleveland and kerosene to the big city markets
  • Ida Tarbell Publishes Her Article About Standard Oil

    Ida publishes
  • Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone

    pretty self explanatory
  • The Great Oklahoma Land Race

    The Great Oklahoma Land Race

    The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands. With an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres super cheap land in Oklahoma.
  • Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    700 people passed though the gates very first day it opens.Processing immigrants they can go into the U.S start there knew lives.
  • The Wizard of Oz (Book) is Published

    The Wizard of Oz (Book) is Published

    A childrens book
  • J.P. Morgan Founds U.S. Steel

    J.P. Morgan Founds U.S. Steel

    J.P. Morgan Founds U.S. Steel
  • Teddy Roosevelt Becomes President of the United States

    Teddy Roosevelt Becomes President of the United States

    Teddy becomes president
  • Ford Motor Company is Founded

    Ford Motor Company is Founded

    Henry Ford / Assembly line
  • The 16th Amendment is Passed

    The 16th Amendment is Passed

  • Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Chinese immigrants were processed as officials attempted to detect US relatives hoping to circumvent the racist law by fabricating relations to American-settled relatives. Few were ultimately deported, but countless were interrogated and detained indefinitely in wooden barracks.
  • The 17th Amendment is Passed

    Passed by Congress and ratified April 8, 1913, the 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators.
  • The Empire State Building Opens

    The Empire State Building Opens

    The Empire State Building is a 102-story It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. It was primarily designed to house corporate offices, but got off to a rocky start thanks to the 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression.