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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 -
Klan is the name of several historical and current American white supremacists. -
He started this in 1870 with his brother and business partner. He made so much money they had to split the oil companies up so he didn't get all the money. Before they split them all up he made 1 billion dollars which made him the first billionaire in the world, and in today's world, that would be 30 billion dollars instead of 1. -
He invented the telephone which has now upgraded so much it is so different than it used to be. After the patent he then made the telephone to call his partner. -
This day was a very crazy and exciting day. Men and women ran to claim homesteads and purchase land. -
It opened on January 1st, 1892. The first immigrant to go through was a girl from Ireland. She also had a brother that was going through right behind her. -
This was the first fantasy written by an American. It was very successful when it came out and it is also very popular today. -
J. P. Morgan, the country's most powerful banker, merged Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Corporation with nine other steel companies -
Teddy became president after McKinley was assassinated. He was the vice president before he was the president, and he ended up being a great president and is on Mount Rushmore. -
She began by revealing the beginnings of the oil industry and how oil came to be in such great demand. Tarbell then described how Rockefeller first began to receive special rates from the railroads. -
This gave Congress the right to collect income taxes -
Henry and others invested 28,000 dollars into the Ford company. But Henry Ford isn't known for the car he is known for the perfection of the assembly line. they sold the first car on July 15th. -
This was called Ellis Island of the West. It opened on January 21st, 1910. It took them 5 years to finish the construction of Angel Island -
This was the amendment that gave people the right to vote for the senator -
What makes the Empire State Building special is it was the first place in the world with 100 floors or more.