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Ponzi, and his sales scheme
Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi finds a loophole in the international reply coupons, he would buy them in the economically wrecked Europe and sell in the US for a huge ROI. -
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Wilson’s Presidency
He served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. -
The start of WW1
WW1s start was short after the assassination of Archduke Franz Fernidad. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (Allied Powers). -
The RMS Lusitania
This British ocean liner was gunned down by a German Uboat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking primed the US to declare war on Germany two years later. -
The Great migration
This was movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. The African Americans who moved were looking for more opportunities and the free lifestyles. -
Russian Revolution
Leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, led the Bolsheviks to seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
First Woman in Congress (Rankin)
She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916(Sworn In 1917) and again in 1940. -
Selective Service Act
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law. This required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service -
The Espionage Act
Espionage act made it a crime for any person to spread 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. -
The Sedition Act
established during World War I, made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States”. -
Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic was very deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. -
Wilson 14 Point Plan
A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end the Great War. The points were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Wilson. -
Schenck vs the US
A landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. -
The rejection of the treaty of Versailles
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which originally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
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The birth of mass media
The first commercially licensed radio station started, the “talking box” was extremely popular. within 6 years, there were over 700 stations and over 600,000 Americans with radios. -
Women’s right to vote
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. In effect on August 18, 1920 -
The worst terrorist attack on the USA to date
a horse-drawn cart carrying a massive, improvised explosive was detonated on the busiest corner on Wall Street. One eyewitness described “two sheets of flame that seemed to envelop the whole width of Wall Street and as high as the tenth story of the tall buildings.” Thirty-eight people were killed in the Wall Street Bombing, and hundreds were injured. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
AKA the Oil Reserves Scandal or Elk Hills Scandal, in American history, of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. -
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The beginning of Rushmore
The idea for Mount Rushmore came from historian Doane Robinson who originally proposed that important Sioux figures be carved into the Black Hills "Needles." Robinson teamed up with sculptor Gutzon Borglum who suggested that the figures be changed to presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. It was also decided that presidents Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt are added to it as well. -
The Holland Tunnel
This tunnel connects New York with Jersey and is 2.55 miles long. Named After Project Chief Engineer Clifford Milburn Holland. Took 5 years to build. -
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