4.8 Timeline

  • Eugene V. Debs

    • a socialist leader who was elected into the Indiana State Assembly and organized the American Railway Union -important because he was the Socialist party's standard-bearer in five presidential elections
  • Jim Crow Laws

    -state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern Unites States
    -important because these were sadly enforced until 1964 when they were abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • Sedition Act

  • 18th Amendment

  • 19th Amendment

  • Immigration Act of 1924

  • John Scopes- The Monkey Trial

  • 20th Amendment

  • Red Scare