https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2 Events of the Progressive Era en-us 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC 2023-02-28 20:52:51 UTC hello@padlet.com acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060447 The opening day of the Exposition Universelle.
The Eiffel Tower remained the world's highest construction until the Chrysler Building was erected in New York in 1930

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]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060448 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060449 Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Black people.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060449 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060450 in 1898 the Curies discovered two new radioactive elements: radium and polonium. When uranium rays passed through the air near an electrical measuring instrument, he found, the instrument detected a difference.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060450 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060453  The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the Jameson Raid and the Uitlander franchise. Scholars prefer to call the war of 1899-1902 the South African War, thereby acknowledging that all South Africans, white and black, were affected by the war and that many were participants.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060453 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060455 25th president of the United States.
The United States went to war against Spain in 1898 and thereby acquired a global empire, which included Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060455 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060456 axel

Australia became a nation on 1 January 1901 when 6 British colonies New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania united to form the Commonwealth of Australia. This process is known as Federation]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060456 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060457 axel

Roosevelt won 56.4% of the popular vote; that, along with his popular vote margin of 18.8%, was the largest recorded between James Monroe's uncontested re-election in 1820 and the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060457 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060458 axel

The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908. Henry Ford wanted the Model T to be affordable, simple to operate, and durable. The vehicle was one of the first mass-production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car.

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William Howard Taft, (born September 15, 1857, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died March 8, 1930, Washington, D.C.), 27th president of the United States (1909–13) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30)]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060459 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060460 axel

Du Bois, a scholar at the historically Black Atlanta University, established himself as a leading thinker on race and the plight of Black Americans.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060460 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060461 axel

The Revolution began with a call to arms on 20th November 1910 to overthrow the current ruler and dictator Porfirio Díaz Mori. Díaz was an ambitious president, keen to develop Mexico into an industrial and modernised country.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060461 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060462 Woodrow Wilson wins the 1912 election on the Republican ticket due to the split between the Republicans and the Progressive Movement Party. He wins the 1912 election as a Democrat and becomes the 28th president. A third party led by Roosevelt opposes the Taft administration.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060462 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060463 Population growth meant there was not enough farmland or jobs to support everyone. Poverty led many to rebel against the Qing. Foreign powers also began to get involved in trade with China, which started wars and treaties that hurt the Qing.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060463 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060464 Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality and British fears of German domination of Europe drove Britain and its empire to war. These actions reflect the fears, anxieties, and ambitions of the European powers.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060464 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060465 Wilson was renominated a few days later at the 1916 Democratic National Convention  without opposition. When Wilson's Vice President Thomas R. Marshall was re-elected, Hughes' running mate was Charles W. Fairbanks, who had served as Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President in his second term.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060465 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060466 After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the United States and all territory subject to its jurisdiction, and their importation into the United States and their exportation from the United States and all territory subject to its jurisdiction for beverage purposes is prohibited.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060466 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060468 In 1906, Gandhi organised his first mass civil disobedience campaign, which he called "Satyagraha", in reaction to the South African Transvaal government's new restrictions on Indian rights, including the refusal to recognise Hindu marriages.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060468 acontreras205 https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060469 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.]]> 2023-02-27 21:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acontreras205/5vidfnohwdpny3x2/wish/2497060469