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Eugene V. Debs
His man was a labor organizer and a socialist leader and he was one of the founding father of the Industrial Workers of the World. Also was candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He helped in the labor movement he wanted the people to get better wages and faught for building socialism. -
Jim Crow laws
These were laws and policies that segregated the African Americas in the South by giving children of color different schools and other colored different transportation and such things ans these continued even after the WW1 because people still were stuck on the idea of the Africans not being part of their country even if they died for their country. They ended in 1950 by the civil rights movement. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was an act the prohibited all immigration of Chinese Laborers. This act was important because the Chinese were sent back and the U.S. didn't have as many workers as before which was a bad thing because they lost money due to the less product the were making. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
It was a battle that happened during the first World War in which German troops sunk the British boat in under 18 minutes.This was important because some Americans got killed while this happened and this pressured Wilson to enter the war as well. -
Zimmerman Telegram
It was a secret telegram that was issued by the German Foreign Office in which they proposed a military alliance between Mexico and Germany , when Germany was going to go into War with U.S. in the first World War they sent this telegram. -
Sedition Act
An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes, as my sources say. This was important because this enforced some laws and when people disobeyed them then they could get into serious punishment. -
18th - 21st amendments
The 18th amendment was established when the government banned people from having alcohol for it was illegal at this point because of all the protests and seeing as many people were getting drunk and doing such things. The 21st amendment had to do with the failure of being able to keep the alcohol illegal an they put a restriction age , this is important because we still have these restrictions now a days. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Limited the number of immigrants that could enter the country in a quota type of form. The only exception were the African Americans but the rest of the immigrants had to be limited and this cause to slow down how many people came into the U.S. they wanted the more white dominate country. -
John Scopes - The Monkey Trial
It was a trial case that took place in Tennessee , a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school . -
Red Scare
It was the potential threat that communism was getting to the United States and that scared everyone because they didn't want communism for they had seen where it got the Soviet Union. And this was called the Red Scare because the flag of the Soviet Union scared us into thinking we would become communists.
