Digital timeline

By Bcotten
  • Sedition Act

    permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States.
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    Great Migration

    Approximately six million Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.
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    Woodrow Wilson Presidency term

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    World War 1

    Lasted 4 years over 20 million casualties and took place in Europe
  • Lusitania

    Launched in 1907 and sunk in 1915 by German U-Boats believed to be what starts world war 1
  • Frank Sinatra

    Frank Sinatra

  • Espionage Act

    prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
  • United States vs Schenck

    Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917 by attempting to cause insubordination in the military and to obstruct recruitment.
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    Lenin led a Russian Revolution

  • Jeanette Rankin becomes first women in congress

    Jeanette Rankin Of Montana is elected to congress and becomes the first ever female to obtain that role
  • Selective Service Act

    Mandatory enlistment or the draft
  • Influenza Epidemic

    Spanish flue
  • Woodrow Wilson 14 points

  • Us rejects League of Nations

    Congress did not ratify the treaty, and the United States refused to take part in the League of Nations
  • US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles

    In November Lodge sent to the Senate floor a treaty with 14 reservations, but no amendments. 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.
  • 19 Amendment

    Women’s rights to vote
  • Lenin and Stalin control Soviet Union

    Lenin and Stalin control Soviet Union

  • Yankees win 5 World Series

    Yankees win 5 World Series