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Jim Crow Laws
legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland -
Zimmerman Telegram
proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany. -
Sedition Act
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 -
The Immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota -
John Scopes - The Monkey Trial
American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human in any state-funded school -
Eugene V. Debs
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. -
18th - 21st amendments
The Twenty-first Amendment of the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol -
Red Scare
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.