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The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. 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, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”
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The Lusitania was built June 7 1906, it set sail from the New York harbor the Lusitania had up too 1,959 and the Lusitania sink May 7 1915 -
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.
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Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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The Espionage act is 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. -
Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. ... On November 7 and 8, 1917, Red Guards captured Provisional Government buildings in a bloodless coup d'état. The Bolsheviks seized power of the government and proclaimed Soviet rule, making Lenin leader of the world's first communist state.
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Spanish flu, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus.
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
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The sedition Act is an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses -
Schenck was convicted in 1919 because for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 through actions that obstructed the “recruiting or enlistment service” during World War I.
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Despite Woodrow Wilson chairing the committee which drafted the Treaty of Versailles Covenant, America voted against becoming official members of the League of Nations in 1919.
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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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Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.