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WWI start date...
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The sinking of the RMS Lusitania occurred on May 7th, 1915 after an attack made on the British ocean liner by German U-boats.
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Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected into Congress in 1916. She was a woman's rights activist and a member of the Republican party.
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Around 400000 African American southerners left the South in order to take advantage of wartime labor oppurtunities.
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The controversial espionage act was passed Jun 15th 1917 which made it illegal to speak about the U.S. Government in perceived disloyal or condescending/slandereing ways.
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The Great Migration of African Americans in search of wartime labor stopped around the end of the war.
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Killed more people than the WW1.
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The Sedition Act was passed by Congress in order to basically extend upon the Espionage Act by covering offenses as specific as interfering with the sale of war bonds or even expressing negativite opinions relating to the war.
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The prohibition of Alcohol went into law in 1919 but was repealed with the 21st amendement in 1933.
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The League of Nations, a plan delivered directly to congress by Woodrow Wilson, was rejected by Congress primarily for partisan reasons.
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