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Progressive time line

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Mandates the most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage
  • Sherman Anti-Trust act

    Prescribes the rule of three competition among those engaged and commerce
  • Publication of “lynch laws and all its phases” by Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells documents the alarmingly high rates of lynching in the United States
  • First airplane flight

    Robert and Orville Wright made for break flights at Kitty Hawk with the first powered aircraft the Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs and interstate commercials and lay the foundation for the nations first consumer protection agency the food and drug administration(FDA)
  • William Howard Taft

    He was the 27th President of the United States and the 10th chief of justice of the United States the only person to have held both offices
  • Amendment 16

    Allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    Was the deadliest industrial disaster in history of the city in one of the deadliest in the US history.
  • 17th amendment

    Established the direct election of United States senators in each state
  • Woodrow Wilson

    He was a leader of the progressive movement and was the 28th President of the United States.
  • Ludlow Massacre

    A mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado coalfield war.
  • “Night of Terror” suffrage arrests

    When people seeking a vote or beaten and tortured for seeking the vote they wish they had.
  • 18th amendment

    Established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States
  • 19th amendment

    Profitts the United States from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex and affect recognizing the right of women to vote
  • First commercial radio station broadcast

    The KDKA was the worlds first commercial radio station it began broadcasting in Pittsburgh
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    An American politician who served as the 32nd President of the United States

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