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WW1 Timespan
Global war from July 1914- November 1918 -
Lusitania
A British ocean liner that got sunk on may 7, 1915
1,198 casualties -
First woman elected into congress
Jeanette Rankin
House of Representatives -
Great migration
Movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural south to the urban north east.
Started 1916 and ended around 1970 -
Lenin’s Russian revolution
Leader of Russia from 1917-1924 -
Selective service act
Ages from 21-30 had to register for military services -
Espionage act
Criminalized anything negative that was said about the US government or military -
Influenza epidemic
Caused by an H1N1 disease
Killed more people than the great war -
Wilson’s 14 Points
A proposal of the things he had set for the future to prevent something bad to happen to our world again -
Sedition act
Designed to protect America’s participation in WW1 -
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
Senate rejected this treaty because they did not want too many allies, and once war would happen they did not want to be forced to help if they were allies -
Schneck vs. US
He violated the 13th amendment due to prohibition against involuntary servitude. -
19th amendment
Women were granted the rights to vote -
KKK
Founded 1920
Genocidal terrorist organization -
Negro league
Baseball league was found by Rube foster -
Historic terrorist attack
A giant cart was carrying an explosive and it detonated on the busiest street of wall street and it was the worst attack in US history at the time. -
Teapot dome scandal
1921-1923
It was a bribery scandal involving the president Warren Harding. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
First ever Yo-yo
Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant to the United States, opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California on April 26th . -
Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
28th president
Served from 1913-1922