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19th ammendment
the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex -
Russian lawyer and a revolutionist
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 -
WW1 Time frame
During the war, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers) -
Lusitania
British Ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland -
Jeannette Rankin from Montana
the first women elected to congress -
Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970 -
Selective Service Act
act required all men between 21 and 30 to register for the military. -
Espionage Act
made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country's enemies. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
Russian lawyer and a revolutionist -
Sedition act
created during World War I, made it a crime to willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States -
Influenza epidemic
an influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza a virus -
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 -
US senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration -
Schenck vs. US
that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a clear and present dange -
Women gained right to vote
every state west of the Mississippi River allowed women to vote -
The KKK terrorized
the Ku Klux Klan, a genocidal domestic terrorist organization founded during Reconstruction, was revitalized in 1920, the result in part of new Klan leadership with a goal for publicity. -
Jazz developed
Jazz is developed by musicians in New Orleans -
Teapot dome scandal
bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
Model T. Ford
the first affortable car was invented -
The Great Gatsby
a novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Babe Ruth
became first player to hit 60 homeruns -
Walt Disney
Walt Disney’s steamboat Wille is created
