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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. -
In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States. -
The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s. -
Woodrow Wilson was in office from March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921 -
The Lusitania was bombed and destroyed. -
Jeannette Rankin was sworn into office -
1914 to 1918, the U.S. joining in 1917 -
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code but is now found under Title 18. -
On November 6 and 7, 1917, leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. -
It was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. -
A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
The United States never joined the League. Most historians hold that the League operated much less effectively without U.S. participation than it would have otherwise. However, even while rejecting membership, the Republican Presidents of the period, and their foreign policy architects, agreed with many of its goals. -
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
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In the face of Wilson's continued unwillingness to negotiate, the Senate on November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty. -
An angry white mob committed acts of violence within the predominantly black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
It happened from May 31 to June 1 in 1921 -
Betty White, the famous actress, was born on January 17, 1922 -
The defendant in question was John Scopes, a public school science teacher in Tennessee. His crime was teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, something that was prohibited at the time by a law called the Butler Act. -
TV sets back then were bulky, blurry, and very expensive. It took until the late 1950s for TVs to become a staple of living rooms across the U.S. (thanks to significant price drops). -
The end of the 1920s saw one of the most significant economic downturns in history.