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EUGENE V. DEBS
*He was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
*Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.
*He was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. -
CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
*It was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882.
*It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers.
*The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States. It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943. -
SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
*It was a British ocean liner, and was sunk by a German submarine in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar.
*The ship was a holder of the Blue Riband, and was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of her running mate Mauretania.
*The Lusitania was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906, at a time of fierce competition for the North Atlantic trade.
*the Lusitania made a total of 202 trans-Atlantic crossings. -
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM
*It was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917.
*It that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I.
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SEDITION ACT
*The act forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt.
*Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years.
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19TH AMENDMENT
*It granted American women the right to vote- a right known as woman suffrage.
*At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.
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IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924
*It was a U.S. federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890.
*It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans. -
JOHN SCOPES- THE MONKEY TRIALS
*an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, known as John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which resulted in making it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
*The trial was deliberately staged to attract publicity to the unknown town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. -
20TH AMENDMENT
- It was moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president. *And also of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. *It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. *The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933
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21ST AMENDEMENT
*Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
*Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the U.S. for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
*Section 3. shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution. -
18TH AMENDMENT
*It established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol.
*The amendment was repealed in 1933 by ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, the only instance in United States history that a constitutional amendment was repealed in its entirety. -
JIM CROW LAWS
*They were state and local laws that enforce racial segregation in the Southern United States.
*They Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in force until 1965.
*the laws mandated the segregation of public places, public schools, and public transportation, the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and different races. -
RED SCARE
*It Is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
*In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.
