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The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in history from the 1910s-1970s roughly.
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Wilson was a leader of the Progressive Movement. He was president from 1913-1921
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A British passenger ship built for transatlantic passenger trade. Sunk by a German torpedo resulting in many lives lost in May 1915.
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April 1917 Rakin was sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives.
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The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any info relating to the national defense with reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the US or the advantage of any foreign nation.
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The select service act was signed into law by Wilson on May 18, 1917 in order to require all men in the US between age 21-39 to register for military service.
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Vladimir Linin launched an almost bloodless coup d’état against Duma’s provisional government in November on the 6th and 7th of 1917
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The Sedation Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of US citizens during the time of the war.
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The influenza epidemic of 1918 was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 Influenza A virus.
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The 14 points was a statement of principles for peace. It was used for peace negotiations in order to end WW1. The speech of Jan. 8th 1918 which was on war aims and peace terms to the US congress, by Wilson, Outlined the 14 points.
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America voted against becoming a member of the League of Nations in 1919, Despite Woodrow Wilson chairing the committee which drafted the treaty of Versailles Covenant.
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The US rejects the Treaty of Versailles Because many Americans felt it was unfair to Germany.
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Schenck v US was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during WW1
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The 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote in 1920.
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In 1922, Ralph Samuelson created the sport water skiing which quickly became a favorite summer pastime.
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Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy on October 30th 1922.
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Johnson and Johnson mass produced bandaids in 1924 because in 1920 his wife had burned herself multiple times while cooking so he created a first aid bandaid with adhesive for his wife so she could continue with her things without the wound getting infected.
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On February 21st Harold W. Ross, the creator and original editor of “The New Yorker” magazine, published his first magazine. Originally the magazine was created as means to showcase the social culture and events of NYC but became more well known for its short stories as it expanded.
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On October 1st 1927 the site which would become the Mount Rushmore National Monument was dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt. The monument was complete in 1941