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Woodrow Wilson birth
He was born in Staunton, Virginia, five years before the beginning of the Civil War. -
Wilson’s Presidency term
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World War 1
Spans from July 28th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918 -
Lusitania sinks
Major cause of the United States deciding to get involved in WW1. -
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 (Spans from 1916 to 1970) -
Jeannette Rankin elected to congress
4 years before the 19th amendment allowing women to vote -
Espionage Act was passed
after the United States entered World War I while The Espionage Act of 1917 limited Americans' First Amendment Rights -
Selective Service Act was passed
It made all male citizens aged 20 to 45 subject to conscription for military service, through the end of the First World War. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
It carried over into the next day the 7th of November -
Influenza epidemic
Spans from February 1918 to April 1920 -
Wilson’s 14 points
President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war. -
Sedition Act was passed
curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war -
The US rejects League of Nations membership
Congress did not ratify the treaty, and the United States refused to take part in the League of Nations. Isolationists in Congress feared it would draw the United Sates into international affairs unnecessarily. -
Schenk vs. US
was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War 1 -
US senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
In the face of Wilson's continued unwillingness to negotiate, the Senate on November 19, 1919, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty. -
19th Ammendment ratified
Approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919, and ratified in August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment marked one stage in women's long fight for political equality. -
Prohibition era
In 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, creating the era of Prohibition. The amendment forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages. -
Automobile mass production
Henry Ford innovated mass-production techniques that became standard, and Ford, General Motors and Chrysler emerged as the “Big Three” auto companies by the 1920s. -
Band-Aid was invented
BAND-AID® Brand adhesive bandages officially went on the market in 1921, and for the first few years, they were made by hand and packaged exactly as Dickson had invented them on a roll you had to trim with scissors. -
Mechanical television
- The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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Neil Armstrong was born
American astronaut, aerospace engineer, test pilot, and professor who became the first person to set foot on the moon on July 21, 1969. He spent 8 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes, and 30 seconds in space.