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Lusitania
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Great Migration timeline
sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
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Wilson's Presidency term
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an academic and politician who served as the two-term 28th president of the United States -
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WWI timeframe
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War and initially in North America as the European War, was a global war originating in Europe -
Jeannette Rankin
She was the first women in the U.S congress. And in 1941, she was the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Influenza(flu) Epidemic
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Selective Service Act
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. -
Espionage Act
The Act was created to protect the United States by prohibiting its citizens from supporting the nation’s enemies during wartime. It also made it illegal for citizens to obstruct military operations during wartime, including recruitment. -
Lenin Leads a Russian Revolution
Lenin leads second Russian Revolution. Lenin leads the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government, and the battle for the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. -
Wilson's 14 Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
Sedition Act
an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
Schenck vs. US
The U.S Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “ clear and present danger.” -
US Senate rejects Treaty of versailles
By a vote of 39 to 55 the senate rejected the treaty. They rejected it because they believed that under the terms of the treaty, the United States would lose too much of its autonomy to the League of Nations. -
Prohibition
Ended: in 1933
Nation wide ban on sales and transportation of liquor and
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The League of Nations
It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. following the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics" -
The Charleston
The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States called "The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade -
Invention of sliced bread
The first automatically sliced commercial loaves were produced on July 6, 1928, in Chillicothe, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Rohwedder, an Iowa-born, Missouri-based jeweler.Rohwedder’s rebuilt “power-driven, multi-bladed” bread slicer was put into service at his friend Frank Bench’s Chillicothe Baking Company. -
The Stock Market Crash
It was considered the worst economic event in world history it began with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares. A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth.
