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The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political corruption. -
To try and stop monopolies from getting to big and destroying small businesses -
was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, making a battle between strikers and private security agents -
People wouldn’t ride the railroads because of the low pay and harsh conditions so they went on strike and protested -
On September 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington was selected to give a speech that would open the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia -
The right brothers would make a plane and fly on December 17th 1903 -
When killing livestock people have to inspect the meat before it can go to making it into food. They also have to have to have a degree to be making the food and Selling it. -
the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's plant in Detroit -
President taff won the 1908 election -
W.E.B Dubois founded the NAACP to protest and try and make everyone equal. -
President Wilson won the 1912 election -
Gave the federal government the power to collect income tax -
The Woman Suffrage Procession, in 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The protest was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association -
Established that senators would be directly elected -
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 -
You can’t sell trade or buy or manufacture liquor -
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. It's also called women's suffrage -
President roosevelt was elected president