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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th U.S. president from March 4, 1913 to march 4,1921.
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WW1 was a global war that started on July 28, 1914 and lasted till November 11, 1918.
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The RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat killing 1,198 people(128 Americans).
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The Great Migration also known as the Great Northward Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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Jeannette rankin was the first female to be elected to congress. She advocated for women rights and civil rights.
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During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist Vladimir Lenin, gained power and destroyed the csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Congress passed the Selective Service Act which was signed into law on May 18, 1917. It required all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited obtaining information, relating to the national defense with intent the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus. Although it’s not known where the virus originated, it was spread worldwide during 1918-1919.
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The Fourteen Points was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson during his speech before Congress outlining his vision for ending World War I and would prevent similar conflicts from ever happening.
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The Sedition Act of 1918, was an act that Congress that extended the Espionage Act to cover a broader range of offenses.
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The 19th amendment is the right of citizens of the U.S. to vote and will not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of gender.
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Schenck vs U.S. was a historic decision of the Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during WW1, a unanimous Supreme Court, concluded that defendants who distributed flyers to draft-age men urging resistance to induction could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft.
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Because of recent bombings, the attorney general, Mitchell Palmer, mounted a campaign to capture and deport foreign radicals. The year after was called the “most spectacular” of the Palmer raids, where thousands of accused communists and anarchists across the country were arrested. The organizer of the raids was J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI General Intelligence Division.
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The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended WW1, because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators objections to the agreement into consideration.
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In the 1920s, Charles Ponzi carried out this scheme and became well known throughout the U.S. because of the huge amount of money he got. His original scheme was using coupons and postage stamps, but then diverted new investors money to make payments to earlier investors and to himself. Then after it collapsed, this type of scheme was named after him.
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In 1920 a horse-drawn cart carrying a massive bomb was detonated on the busiest corner on Wall Street. 38 people were killed in the Wall Street Bombing and hundreds more were injured.
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The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920. Jim Thorpe was the president and eleven teams. The name would later be changed into the National Football League.
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In 1920, the first commercially-licensed radio station began broadcasting live results of the presidential election. It was first mentioned as the “talking box”. And a few year later over 500,000 radios would be purchased and there would be over 700 commercial radio stations.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the U.S. President Warren G. Harding. He was charged with accepting bribes from oil companies.
