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Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British ship that sank from being hit by a torpedo from the Germans.The ship sunk on May 7th, 1915. The torpedo pierced the ship which allowed water in the ship, to cause it to sink. -
Wilson’s Presidency Term
28th President. An advocate for democracy and world peace.Ended March 4, 1921 -
First woman elected to Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was the first woman elected into Congress. -
Great Migration Time Frame
The relocation of 6 million African Americans from the rural south to the cities of the north, midwest, and west. -
Influenza (flu) epidemic
n the United States, unusual flu activity was first detected in military camps and some cities during the spring of 1918. For the U.S. and other countries involved in the war, communications about the severity and spread of disease were kept quiet as officials were concerned about keeping up public morale, and not giving away information about illness among soldiers during wartime. Ended in 1918. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
A revolution is an overthrow of a government, the Russian revolution was exactly that, its aim was to overthrow the Tsar who had been leading an autocratic government for 23 years. -
Selective service act
President Wilson signed the Selective Service act into a law. The Selective Service Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through recruitment. The Act ended along with the War on November 11th, 1918 -
Espionage Act
Enforced largely by A. Mitchell Palmer, the United States attorney general under President Woodrow Wilson. It was passed by the president. The Espionage Act essentially made it a crime for any person to convey information. -
Wilson’s 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. -
Sedition act
Created by the federalist and Alexander Hamilton and was then signed by President John Adams. Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798. Repealed December 13th, 1920. -
Schenk v. the United States
During World War I, socialists Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer distributed leaflets declaring that the draft violated the Thirteenth Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude. Decided March 3rd, 1919. -
Summer Olympics
They took place in Antwerp, Belgium and they emphasize reconciliation after World War l. During the Opening Ceremony, the Olympic flag with the five rings signifying the universality of the Olympic Games was raised for the first time at an Olympic Games.The 1920 Games were awarded to Antwerp to honour the suffering that had been inflicted on the Belgian people during the war. -
19th Amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. therefore you cannot deny anyone the right to vote based on their sex. -
Harding wins Presidential Election
Harding was elected by a landslide. He won 60% of the popular vote. Harding virtually ignored Cox in the race and essentially campaigned against Wilson by calling for a "return to normalcy". Harding won a landslide victory, sweeping every state outside of the South and becoming the first Republican since the end of Reconstruction to win a former state of the Confederacy. -
World Series Broadcast on the Radio
It was broadcast by KDKA staff announcer Harold Arlin. That year, KDKA and WJZ of Newark broadcast the first World Series on the radio, between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, with Grantland Rice and Tommy Cowan calling the games for KDKA and WJZ, respectively. -
Harding Dies
President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke in a San Francisco hotel room. Harding's death came as a great shock to the nation. The president was liked and admired, and the press and public had followed his illness closely, and been reassured by his apparent recovery.[193] Nine million people lined the tracks as Harding's body was taken from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., where he lay in state at the United States Capitol rotunda. -
Klansmen March
A staggering sixty thousand men dressed in terrifying white robes marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in unison much like a military parade.Hiram Evans wanted to make a point to the ‘nation’ that they were the true defenders of the values and protectors of the borders of the United States that were threatened and breached by the ‘intruders.’The eerie aspect of the whole affair was that almost all of them brought their families and children along with them, as if they were on a day out or a picnic. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The scandal involved the administration of President Warren G. Harding, Albert B. Fall was the secretary to the President’s cabinet. After Pres. Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil-reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves (April 7, 1922).
