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He was born in Staunton, Virginia, five years before the beginning of the Civil War.
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Spans from March 4th, 1913 to March 4th, 1921
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Spans from July 28th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918
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Major cause of the United States deciding to get involved in WW1.
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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)
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4 years before the 19th amendment allowing women to vote
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after the United States entered World War I while The Espionage Act of 1917 limited Americans' First Amendment Rights
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It made all male citizens aged 20 to 45 subject to conscription for military service, through the end of the First World War.
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It carried over into the next day the 7th of November
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Spans from February 1918 to April 1920
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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.
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curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war
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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.
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was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War 1
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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® 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. -
- The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
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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.