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This act made it so that people who worked in government jobs had to be qualified and earn their job through merit. -
The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car when German inventor Karl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. -
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This act outlawed monopoly business practices. -
In this strike, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut. -
The Pullman strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. -
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. -
President Roosevelt was elected. -
This act said that before being put in stores, food and drugs must be inspected to make sure that they are safe. -
Founding of the NAACP by W.E.B. DuBois -
He was elected on this day. -
He was elected on this day. -
This amendment gave the congress the power to collect taxes on incomes. -
Washington D.C. suffrage parade -
The 17th amendment said that the senate would be composed of two senators from each state. -
The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. -
On this night 33 women endured a night of brutal beatings for their peaceful demonstrations in front of the White House. -
This amendment banned the manufacturing and distribution of alcohol, but then was repealed in 1932. -
This amendment gave women the right to vote -
The world's first commercial radio station, KDKA, began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1920.
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