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This was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City coming from what was originally a small street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide war.
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Commonly shortened to the KKK are white-supremacist. This group is categorized as a terrorist organization and a hate group.
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The success of this business empire made Rockefeller one of the world's first billionaires and a celebrated philanthropist.
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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns.
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Ellis Island opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Annie Moore, from Ireland, was the first immigrant to be processed at the federal immigration depot.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the first fantasy written by an American.
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Ford Motor Company is an American car manufacturer headquartered in Michigan.
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This was first serialized in McClure's Magazine starting in 1902 and then published as a best-selling book in 1904.
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Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States upon the assassination of President William McKinley.
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The Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes and incomes, from whatever source derived.
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To prove their legal right to enter, Chinese and eventually other Asian immigrants were detained and questioned at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
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The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people.
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Construction proved an important source of jobs in New York City. The building formally opened on May 1, 1931.
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He was the country's most powerful banker. He began by merging Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Corporation with nine other steel companies to form the world's largest corporation.