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The Pendleton Civil Service Act helped people who were actually qualified enough for a job get that job, and not have other people get the job due to personal connections. Before, people were able to get jobs if family or friends knew each other. Thanks to this act, people qualified enough were getting the job. -
The invention of the comptometer was VERY important since people were forced to do paper and pencil math before. With this invention, people could do their math at a much faster rate. -
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act allowed forming monopolies to become illegal. This was necessary since when there were monopolies, the other side had to stop selling that product, due to the monopolies. -
This strike was the cause of workers not getting enough pay for their work. Workers thought that they should be getting more money, and they went on a strike to demand more fair wages. -
The Atlanta Compromise Speech was when Booker T. Washington said that the blacks should be educated and they should be sent to do work, but it was okay for them to be segregated.
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Theodore Roosevelt was the Vice President before President William McKinley was assassinated. As a child, he learned how to box to build strength. Before having a job in the government, he went to the Dakotas and became a rancher and cowboy. Then he marries Edith Carrow in NYC and raises a family. He has many jobs in the government, like being the Governor of New York and the Secretary of the Navy when McKinley was on his first term. He decides to run for President again but loses. -
This event was significant since this was the first plane that was flown. Since there was no plane flown before, it was very important for Americans.
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This law was extremely necessary in many ways. Before this law, many people were getting sick or even died due to diseases that animals passed on from their meat. After this law, there needed to be strict testing to ensure that humans would be safe after eating meat of any type. Another thing that happened was that there were drugs and alcohol that was being passed onto humans via food. Since there was now strict testing, humans could eat the food without suspecting anything. -
President William Howard Taft did not like monopolies, so he was against them. But, unlike Roosevelt, he didn't make a drastic change. -
This fire cost many innocent lives of women. There were women inside the factory that were working and since there was no exit when the fire started, many women died that day. -
This amendment allowed the Congress to charge people who are earning an income with tax. Those who don't earn an income don't need to pay taxes, but those who earn money need to pay taxes. -
This was when women demanding the equal rights were protesting in Washington D.C., right around the time (a day before) President Woodrow Wilson's inaguration.
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President Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat and he wanted the women NOT to vote and the African Americans NOT to have equal rights. He was the President during the years when the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendment were released. -
This amendment allowed for a more direct election of the Senators. This allowed for the elections to be more democratic. -
This day was when many women were arrested for protesting for women's suffrage. That night, many women were brutally abused in the jail. -
This amendment had banned alcohol, since people thought that this was causing more crimes and chaos in the country. But, even more problems were caused since alcohol was banned! People did more crimes than before and others died from poorly made alcohol. This amendment was not useful and rather made everything worse than straightening things up. -
This amendment helped women get the right to vote. Without this vote, women weren't able to vote. Thanks to this amendment, women are now able to vote.
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