Digital timeline

  • Great migration beings

    Due to poor economic conditions, and racial tensions many people migrated from the South to the North.
  • Woodrow Wilson is elected president

    Woodrow Wilson is elected president

    Woodrow was part of the Democratic Party. He served two terms, but wanted to run a third time but suffered from a stroke. He wanted to remain neutral during the war.
  • World war 1 begins

    World war 1 begins

    after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria declares war on Serbia.
  • RMS Lusitania sinks

    RMS Lusitania sinks

    The RMS was a British ship, briefly the worlds largest passenger ship, a German boat torpedoed the Lusitania 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland.
  • First woman elected to congress

    First woman elected to congress

    Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
  • Congress passed the Selective service act

    The act authorized the United States government to raise a national army for service in World War I.
  • Congress passed the Espionage act

    Congress passed the Espionage act

    The act prohibited obtaining, spreading, or broadcasting information related to the national defense/war
  • Lenin led a Russian revolution (Bolshevik revolution)

    The goal of the revolution was to place Russia under Bolshevik control as soon as possible.
  • Wilson gave his “14 points” speech

    Wilson gave his “14 points” speech

    Wilson’s 14 points had to do with stating principles for peace negotiations.
  • Flu epidemic begins

    Flu epidemic begins

    Known as the “Spanish Flu” it killed thousands of people.
  • Congress passes the Sedition act

    the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech.
  • World war 1 ends

    World war 1 ends

    This became known as Armistice Day.
  • Schenk V. US

    the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer for violating the Espionage Act
  • Congress passes 19th amendment

    Congress passes 19th amendment

    “ The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
    Women can vote!
  • US senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles

    They rejected the treaty because they did not want the US to be pulled into further conflicts.
  • US rejects League of Nations membership

    “ United States did not officially join the League of Nations due to opposition from isolationists in Congress”
  • Prohibition begins

    Prohibition begins

    It was now illegal to sell, produce, or import liquor into the US.
  • Flu epidemic ends

    After infecting millions and killing a third of the world’s population, most people either gained immunity from being exposed then shortly after a vaccine came into play.
  • First American professional football league is formed

    Jim Thorpe was president, there were 11 total teams.
  • Warren Harding is elected president

    Warren Harding is elected president

    “Warren Gamaliel Harding served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923” He was a Republican, and one of the most popular presidents.
  • First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

    For the first time the Macy’s day parade was held.
  • First public demonstration of television

    Given during a speech in Washington, by Herbert Ives
  • Great migration ends

    The south had changed enough that African-Americans did not feel the pressure to flee.