Progressive Era

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Pendleton Civil Service Act

    that Federal Government jobs be awarded on the basis of merit and that Government employees be selected through exams
  • Sherman antitrust act

    Sherman antitrust act

    to help with combinations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    It was a violent strike between the Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The striking workers were all fired on July 2 after what happened
  • First Airplane Flight

    First Airplane Flight

    When the first airplanes took off and could glide threw the air successfully
  • Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act

    It made sure that the meat was good enough to eat and will not harm the people it would go to. Like to school lunch/food
  • First Model T automobile

    First Model T automobile

    The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car
  • Founding of the NAACP by W.E.B. DuBois

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

    a civil rights organization in the US formed in 1909ti help get justice for African Americans.
  • Taft election

    Taft election

    He was elected on March 4th,
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment

    Congress has power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source they want
  • 17th amendment

    17th amendment

    The purpose for the Seventeenth Amendment was to allow the the direct election of U.S senators by the citizens.
  • Ludlow Massacre

    Ludlow Massacre

    The coal miners strike . The strike had two main goals. getting coal operators to follow state of Colorado mining law and gaining representation by the United Mine Workers of America
  • Wilson election

    Wilson election

    He was elected November 7th, 1916
  • First ‘Silent Sentinel’ protest

    First ‘Silent Sentinel’ protest

    They want to get the equal right to vote so as they were known showed up each day holding banners demanding the right to vote for American women
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    The Eighteenth Amendment declared the production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.
  • Roosevelt election

    Roosevelt election

    He was elected March 4th, 1933

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