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He presided over ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, and laws that prohibited child labor.
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Also known as the “Great War”, was an international conflict amount many countries.
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A UK ocean liner that was torpedoed by an imperial German Navy-U boat -
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of rural southern United States to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west.
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During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule -
Jeannette Rankin, she campaigned as a progressive in 1916, she pledged to work for a constitutional woman suffrage amendment and emphasizing social welfare issues. -
Authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I throughly conscription.
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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 injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. -
An exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus -
A statement of principals for peace
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Curtained the free speech rights of US citizens durning time of war. -
A landmark decision of the Us Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 durning World War I
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Congress did not ratify the treaty, and the United States refused to take part in the League of Nations.
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Many American felt that the treaty was unfair to Germany and that Britain and France were making themselves rich at Germany’s expense and that the US should not be helping them to do this.
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Guaranteed women throughout the United States would have the right to vote on equal terms with men -
The play by Eugene O'Neill would win the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes. -
The American Professional Football League is formed in 1920 with Jim Thorpe as its president and eleven teams. It would change its name to the National Football League in 1922. -
A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later. -
The Teapot Dome scandal begins when the U.S. Secretary of the Interior leases the Teapot Oil Reserves in Wyoming. -
The 12th century Aztec Indian ruins in New Mexico are proclaimed as a National Monument by President Warren G. Harding, following in the footsteps of all presidents since Theodore Roosevelt. It is known as Aztec Ruins National Monument.