Immigration timeline

By KadenGShuler

  • John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil
    tandard Oil (in full, Standard Oil Company and Trust) was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States

  • The Great Oklahoma Land Race

    The Great Oklahoma Land Race
    By setting the stage for non-Indian settlement of other sections of Indian Territory

  • Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants
    Ellis Island officially opened as an immigration station on January 1, 1892. Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot.

  • Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants
    The new Immigration Station opened on January 21, 1910 and became the major port of entry to the U.S. for Asians and other immigrants coming from the west