American history

  • Woodrow Wilson’s presidency term

    28th president of the United States from 1913-1921 led America through world war 1.
  • WW1 time

    Global conflict spanning from 1914-1918
  • Sinking of Lusitania

    Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles off the coast of Ireland
  • First woman elected into congress

    Jeannette rankin of Montana was sworn into the House of Representatives
  • The Great Migration

    Movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern US to the urban northeast, Midwest and west from 1916-1970.
  • Lenin’s Russian revolution

    Served as the head of government of soviet Russia from 1917-1924 bolshevks seized control of government and proclaimed soviet rule.
  • Select service act

    This act required all men in the us between the ages of 21-30 to register for military service.
  • Espionage act

    This act criminalized any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the us government or military.
  • Influenza flu epidemic

    The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War.
  • Wilson’s 14 points

    Proposal made by Wilson, outlining his vision for World War One in a way that would prevent something like that from happening again.
  • Sedition act

    Extended the espionage act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses.
  • Schenck vs US

    Freedom of speech production afforded in the first amendment could be restricted if words represented “clear and presence danger”
  • US senate rejects treaty of Versailles

    Senate rejected the treaty because they did not want to have too many alliances and if a war broke out they wouldn’t be forced to join.
  • 19th Amendment

    Guaranteed American women the right to vote.
  • Negro national league

    Negro baseball league founded by rube foster.
  • Teapot dome scandal

    A bribery scandal involving the administration of president warren g. Harding spanking from 1921-1923
  • Warner Brothers

    Warner Brothers pictures is incorporated
  • IBMm incorporation

    The IBM corporation is founded.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

    J. Edgar Hoover is appointed to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • The grand old opry

    The Grand Old Opry transmits its first radio broadcast.