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Pendleton civil service act
The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage. -
Sherman antitrust act
The Sherman antitrust act was the first federal act that one monopolistic business practices -
Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel company and many of its workers in 1892, in Homested, Pennsylvania. The gaurds and workers exchanged gunfire, three guards and seven workers where kille -
Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech
Booker T Washington was selected to give the speech that would open the Cotten states and the international exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. This speech was the first speech given by an African American to a racially-mixed audience in the South. -
President Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. He grew up with wealthy parents and boxed as a kid. He became heartbroken after his wife died in child birth and he ran away to the Dakota’s. He starts a new family then me moves back to New York where he becomes the governor then he becomes the Vice President to McKinley, and then on September 14 901 he became president. He had many great accomplishments during his time as president. -
First airplane flight
The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville made four brief slight with their first powered aircraft the Kitty Hawk on December 17th, 1903. -
Pure food and drug act, meat inspection act
The pure food and drug act regulated food additives and prohibited miss labeling of food and drugs -
First Model T automobile
The first production Model T Ford was completed at the company’s Pitquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, ford built 15 million model T cars. -
President Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and 10th chief justice of the United States, the only person to hold both offices -
Sixteenth Amendment
Amendment 16: gave the federal government the power to collect income tax -
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 20th president of United states from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the democratic party, Wilson service the president of the Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before the 1912 presidential election. -
Seventeenth Amendment
Amendment 17: Established that senators would be directly elected -
Ludlow Massacre
The ludlow massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. The national gauged and pirate guards attacked a tent colony with 1200 people living in them because they went on strike due to the unfair pay and horrible work conditions for coal miners -
Night of Terror suffrage arrests
The night of terror was when woman suffragettes where beaten and tortured for seeking rights to vote. The women where clubbed, beaten and tortured by the guards at the Occoquan Workhouse -
18th amendment
The 18th amendment of the United States Constitution establish the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. -
19th Amendment
This amendment gave woman the rights to vote, it also made the country more democratic