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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 -
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. -
John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company on January 10, 1870 with his business partners and brother. 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. -
Eliss Island is where immigrant get approved or denied access into the country -
Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. -
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n 1901, through the merger of several steel companies, financier J. P. Morgan formed the United States Steel Corporation, then the largest company in the world. -
Eventually became known as the Trust Buster -
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. -
Ford Motor Company would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world. -
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, -
Like Ellis Island Angel Island was another immigration station -
The Empire State Building formally opened on May 1, 1931. Construction of the immense skyscraper took less time than anyone could have anticipated, concluding after only 410 days.