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Wilson’s presidency term
Presidential campaign involving Taft, T. Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote, which caused Wilson to win. -
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WW1
World War 1 was fought between the allied powers and the central powers and mainly took place in Europe. The main members of the allied powers were France, Russia, and Britain. The United States joined a little later. The members who count on the central powers were Germany, Austria Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. There were many causes of this war but the main reason being the assasination of Austrian Ferdinand. -
Lusitania
Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk because of a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland. The incident killed around 1,198 passengers and crew. Two years later the United States declared war on Germany. -
First women elected to Congress
Jeannette Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate. She was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana. -
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The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States and mainly moved to the Northeast.The main reason to the Great Migration was the poor economic conditions as well as racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were still enforced. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, almost 10 million men across the country had registered because of the draft. -
Espionage Act
The Espionage Act was passed in order to prohibit interference with military operations, to ban support of U.S. enemies during wartime and/or to promote insubordination in the military. -
Wilson’s 14 points
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars. -
Sedition Act
The Sedition Act forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces. -
Influenza (flu) epidemic
The flu infected 500 million people around the world, or about 27% of the world population in 1918. -
U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
The Senate rejected a peace treaty because a vote of 39 to 55. The vote was short of the required two-thirds majority so the Senate denied consent to the Treaty of Versailles. -
Schenck vs. US
A socialists, Charles Schenck, violated the Thirteenth Amendment. Schenck urged the public to disobey the draft, but advised to only do it in a peaceful manner. Schneck also tried to cause insubordination. Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917. -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment extended the right for women to vote in federal or state elections. -
US rejects League of Nations membership
The Leauge of Nations was supposed to be a group of nations that worked together to keep peace. There were many flaws that the US recognized and didn’t want to risk anything. Some risks were that they did not have the power it needed to enforce any of the rules and had no troops of its own which made the decision making process very slow. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. -
Insulin
In 1921, the population of North America had greatly been affected by diabetes. At that time, no one knew the cause or treatment of the disease. However, a year later, Canadian medical researchers at the University of Toronto had discovered a treatment called insulin. It was determined that people with diabetes could not absorb sugar & starch from the blood stream because they were missing an important hormone which was insulin. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
In efforts to stop immigration from China, this Act banned all Chinese from entering Canada, except for students, merchants, and diplomats. Canadians feared that the Chinese would take over their jobs. -
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada's involvement with air defence consisted of Canadian airmen flying with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, with the short-lived Canadian Aviation Corps, and with a small two-squadron Canadian Air Force attached to the Royal Air Force in England during the First World War. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression started when the U.S. stock market crashed in. Historians and economists give many causes for the Great Depression including drought, overproduction of goods, bank failures, stock speculation, and consumer debt. By 1932, 25–30% of people lost their jobs -
First Diesel engine road trip
The first diesel-engine roadtrip was and 800-mile trip from Indianapolis to New York City and used 30 gallons of fuel, which cost $1.38, and showed that diesel was a viable option as an internal combustion engine. It was the first of many diesel-powered driving feats Cummins would attempt and it established his company as an engine supplier that would lead to success in the trucking industry.
