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Established a merit-based system of selecting government officials. -
Outlawed monopolistic business practices. -
Ida B. Wells published her book “Southern Horrors - Lynch Law in all its Phases”. -
A violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in Homestead, Pennsylvania. -
The Pullman Strike was a widespread railroad strike and boycott that protested wage cuts and the firing of union representatives. -
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The first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers. -
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Prohibited the sale of misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock. -
Forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
The Ford Motor Company, owned by Henry Ford, created the Model T, which was one of the first mass production vehicles. -
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WEB DuBois, along with others, founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). -
Gave Congress the power to tax incomes. -
Provided for the direct election of U.S. senators -
Alice Paul and the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized a parade for women’s suffrage in Washington D.C. the day before Woodrow Wilson’s presidential inauguration. -
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack on striking coal miners and their families by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards. It resulted in the deaths of 25 people, including 11 children. -
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33 women endured a night of brutal beatings for their peaceful women’s suffrage demonstrations in front of the White House. -
Declared the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal. (Repealed in 1933.) -
Granted women the right to vote. -
KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose to do it on election day, so people could hear the election live.
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