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Wilson presidency term
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World war 1
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Lusitania
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. Out of those 123 Americans died in the attack -
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Great migration
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.I -
First women elected for congress
Jeannette Rankin entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1917 as the first woman in either chamber of Congress. -
Selective service act
authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
Espionage act
essentially 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. -
Lenin lead a Russian revolution
led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Sedition act
The Sedition Act of 1918, enacted 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" -
Wilson 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. -
Influenza flu pendemic
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. -
U.S rejects League of Nations invite
In 1919, for the first time, the Senate rejected a peace treaty. By a vote of 39 to 55, far short of the required two-thirds majority, the Senate denied consent to the Treaty of Versailles. -
Schneck vs US
(1919), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 -
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. -
19th amendment
- The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest.
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Invention of the radio
The radio was a great invention used for communication. It allowed voices, news, and music to be broadcasted all across the country with the help of radio signals. -
The KKK
The Ku Klux Klan, a genocidal domestic terrorist organization founded during Reconstruction, was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with an eye for publicity. -
Summer olympics
The Summer Olympics take place in Antwerp, Belgium and they emphasize reconciliation after World War I. -
macys thanksgiving day parade
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held on November 27th, 1924. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression had several causes to it and it negatively impacted the United States drastically. The main reason it started was because of the Stock Market Crash or Black Tuesday. Firstly there was an over production and expansion that could’ve easily been avoided
