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It mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage. -
It protects trade and commerce against uncontrollable monopoly. -
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It was the first documented analysis of post–Civil War lynching in the United States. -
It was an industrial lockout and strike culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents. The battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history. -
It was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest of the United States. The federal government's response to the unrest marked the first time that an injunction was used to break a strike. -
Booker T. Washington was selected to give a speech that would open the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. His speech, often referred to as the "Atlanta Compromise," was the first speech given by an African American to a racially-mixed audience in the South. -
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. They had invented the first successful airplane. -
It provided for federal inspection of meat products, and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transport of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines. -
It allows Congress to levy an income tax on all income earners in the United States. -
He was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States Taft was the only person to have held both offices. -
Du Bois was among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and served it as director of publicity and research. He was a member of the board of directors, and founder and editor of The Crisis monthly magazine. -
In during this fire doors to the stairwells and exits were locked – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. -
It allows the United States Senators to be directly elected by the popular vote. -
He was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States. Wilson was a leader of the Democratic Party, served as the president of Princeton University, and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. -
It was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large organized march on Washington for political purposes. The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. -
They were the first group to picket the White House. They started their protest after a meeting with the president during which he told the women to "concert public opinion on behalf of women's suffrage." The protesters served as a constant reminder to Wilson of his lack of support for suffrage. -
Whittaker, ordered the nearly forty guards to brutalize the suffragists. They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head, then left her there for the night. -
It made it a illegal to sell or manufacture alcoholic drinks. -
It grants women the right to vote. -
Station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose that date because it was election day, and the power of radio was proven when people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper. -
He was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States .
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