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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, which occurred July 4–5, 1857. -
John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Company, incorporating it in Ohio on January 10, 1870, with his partners and brother. Starting from a partnership in 1863, Rockefeller steadily expanded his refining business, eventually forming Standard Oil. -
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. -
Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone, U.S. Patent No. 174,465, on March 7, 1876, which secured his rights to the invention. Bell then made the first telephone call three days later, on March 10, 1876. -
Ellis Island, New York, opened on January 1, 1892, as the primary federal immigration station in the United States, processing over 12 million immigrants in the following 62 years. The first immigrant to be processed was 15-year-old Annie Moore. -
The Great Oklahoma Land Race, or more commonly the Oklahoma Land Rush, refers to a series of events between 1889 and 1895 when the U.S. government opened millions of acres of unassigned land in the Indian Territory to non-Native American settlement -
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 -
P. Morgan financed the formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 by merging Carnegie Steel with other companies, creating the world's first billion-dollar corporation. -
Ida Tarbell published her groundbreaking series of articles, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," in McClure's Magazine between November 1902 and October 1904, which exposed the monopolistic and unethical practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. -
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. -
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. -
Angel Island Immigration Station opened on January 21, 1910, serving as the primary U.S. West Coast immigration processing and detention center until 1940. While envisioned to process European immigrants, it became a site to detain and interrogate mostly Chinese immigrants under restrictive anti-Asian laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act, with many ultimately denied entry. -
The 16th Amendment, authorizing a federal income tax, was passed by Congress in 1909 and ratified by the states on February 3, 1913. The amendment was a response to the 1895 Supreme Court case -
The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows voters to directly elect their senators. It replaced the original system where state legislatures chose senators.
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The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, with a ceremonial button push by President Herbert Hoover from the White House that turned on the building's lights. Construction on the iconic Art Deco skyscraper began on March 17, 1930