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Wilson's Presidency Term
Woodrow Wilson served as the 28th president of the United States. -
WW1 Start
World War One began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
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Great Migration Timeframe
The travel of about six million African Americans from the south to the north in attempts to escape racist ideologies and practices -
Lusitania
The Lusitania was a British Ocean Liner that was struck by a German torpedo off the southern coast of Ireland. -
First Woman Elected into Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was a women's rights advocate as well as a pacifist. She opposed the declarations of war on both Germany and Japan. She was basically super cool -
Lenin Led a Russian Revolution
During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Selective Service Act
The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft. This raised an army for WW1 -
Espionage Act
This act essentially made it illegal to convey any information that meant to do harm to the United States' armed forces or to promote the success of the country's enemies. -
Influenza Epidemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus, with the second being the swine flu in 2009. -
Wilson 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
The Sedition Act extended the Espionage Act by adding to the list of offenses through the addition of speech and expression of opinion that cast the government in a negative light. -
WW1 End
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, WW1 ended. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. -
Schenck Vs. US
A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., concluded that defendants who distributed flyers to draft-age men, urging resistance to induction, could be convicted of an attempt to obstruct the draft, a criminal offense. -
US Senate Rejects the Treaty of Versailles
This was the first time ever the US rejected a peace treaty -
US Population over 100 million people
This is the first time the US Census reached a number of over 100 million people. -
League of Nations Established
The League of Nations is established with the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the First World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding over petroleum reserves -
Nellie Tayloe Ross First Woman Govenor
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor of the United States in Wyoming. Miriam Ferguson is installed two weeks later as the second during a ceremony in Texas. -
Radio Vision is Born!
The precursor to television is demonstrated by Charles Francis Jenkins when he transmits a 10-minute film of synchronized pictures and sound for five miles from Anacostia to Washington, D.C. to representatives of the United States government. -
Martin Luther King is Born!
The day a civil rights leader and activist was born! Also known as MLK day!
