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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. -
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States -
The Pendleton Civil Service Act is a United States federal law passed by the 47th United States Congress. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. -
The Book was called “Southern Horrors”. -
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. -
Booker T. Washington was selected to give a speech that would open the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. The speech, which is often referred to as the "Atlanta Compromise," was the first speech given by an African American to a racially-mixed audience in the South. -
During the spring and summer of 1903, they were consumed with leaping that final hurdle into history. On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. -
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws which was enacted by Congress in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. -
On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. -
In 1909, Du Bois was among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and from 1910 to 1934 served it as director. -
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states -
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. -
On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue to give women rights. -
Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 people. -
On the night of November 14, 1917, known as the "Night of Terror", the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse, W.H. 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. -
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and the states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognising the right of women to a vote.
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