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waves that would have helped show up icebergs in the darkness. (Fisher, 18) As a result the ship sank and 1500 people died. The mobilization of millions of men for the armed forces left so many jobs vacant at home that they could only be filled by employing women. The suffragettes, who had been attacking the government, swung around and demanded the right to serve the war effort. Before the war women had worked in only a very small number of occupations, mainly as servants, and had been told they were not strong enough to work in factories, or bright enough to work with their brains or even vote. (Fisher, 39) Now they were given all sorts of jobs to do, and astonished men by how well they worked. At this time the average U.S. workingman earns less than $15 per week, his working

hours range from 54 to 60 hours, and there is wide irregularity of employment. (Trager, 733) Another important event was that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded at New York. Eight out of ten U.S. blacks still live in the 11 states of the Old Confederacy, but a great migration begins that will bring more than 2 million blacks to the North. (Trager, 733) In 1910 the U.S. population reaches 92 million with 13.5 million of it foreign born. Just over half live in cities and towns of 2,500 or more, up from 21 percent in 1860. (Trager, 738) In 1912 A new Homestead Act reduces from 5 years to 3 years the residence requirements of U.S. homesteaders. (Trager, 750) President Wilson s administration created a U.S. Department of Labor in response to many

demands. (Trager, 751) During the early part of the decade the Supreme Court broke up James B. Duke s American Tobacco Company Trust of 1890 as well as John D. Rockefeller s Standard Oil Company trust. (Trager, 739) In conclusion, as you can see there were many important events which made the decade of 1910 one of important presidential decisions as well as a decade of establishing the United States as a world power. The arrival of World War I was one of the biggest events in U.S. world history so far, it was a main event which effected our power for the future. Without the war and the actions taken by Wilson during the war the United States may not have been in the same situation it is in today. Wilson s presidency as well as the election of 1912 also played a big part in the

decade of 1910 and contributed to the essence of it. Many smaller events although not nearly as large scale as Wilson s presidency and the war were also important, such as the sinking of the Titanic which took 1500 lives. All these events I talked about contribute to the essence of the decade and make the decade of 1910 a decade I will never forget and I know you wont either.