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Progressive Era

  • President Wilson Election Day

    President Wilson Election Day

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
  • President Taft Election Day

    President Taft Election Day

    William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States
  • President Roosevelt Election Day

    President Roosevelt Election Day

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Pendleton Civil Service Act

    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.
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce.
  • Publication of “Lynch Law in all its Phases” by Ida B. Wells

    Publication of “Lynch Law in all its Phases” by Ida B. Wells

    The Book was called “Southern Horrors”.
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    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’s Atlanta Compromise Speech

    Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech

    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.
  • First airplane flight

    First airplane flight

    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.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    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.
  • First Model T automobile

    First Model T automobile

    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.
  • Founding of the NAACP by W.E.B. DuBois

    Founding of the NAACP by W.E.B. DuBois

    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.
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state.
  • Washington, D.C. Suffrage parade

    Washington, D.C. Suffrage parade

    On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration, thousands of women marched along Pennsylvania Avenue to give women rights.
  • Ludlow Massacre

    Ludlow Massacre

    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.
  • ‘Night of Terror’ suffrage arrests

    ‘Night of Terror’ suffrage arrests

    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.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    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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