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Wilson’s Presidency term
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th U.S. president who served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I. Wilson is often ranked by historians as one of the nation’s greatest presidents -
WWI
World War I was one of the deadliest wars we have ever been in. It started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. -
RMS Lusitania
British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew members. -
The Great Migration Act
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. They where driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws. -
First women elected to Congress
The first women elected was Jeannette Rankin. She entered the House of Representatives in 1917 as the first women to enter -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. This act was Enforced largely by A. Mitchell Palmer. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
This is when leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup against the Duma’s provisional government. -
Influenza (flu) epidemic
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was the deadliest in history it was a virus that infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. -
Wilson’s 14 points
The Fourteen Points speech by Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918, during which Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I. -
Sedation Act
The Sedation Act made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces’ prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. This is like the espionage act. -
US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
Schenck vs. US
This was a United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer distributed leaflets declaring that the draft violated the Thirteenth Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude. -
19th amendment
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. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920s shocked Americans. It was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. In the end, the scandal would make the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption. -
First sound on film
The first sound on film motion picture Phonofilm is show in the Rivoli Theatre in New York City by Lee de Forest. -
Warren G Harding death
President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge would oppose the League of Nations, but approved of the World Court. -
Liquid fuel rocket
Robert H. Goddard demonstrates the viability of the first liquid fueled rockets with his test in Auburn, Massachusetts. -
Success in invention of TV
First success in the invention of television occurs by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. -
Birth of Martin Luther King
Future Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is born in his grandfather's house in Atlanta, Georgia.
