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Eugene V. Debs
was an American democratic socialist political activist and trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States . -
Jim Crow Laws
enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Those on the West Coast were especially prone to attribute declining wages and economic ills on the despised Chinese workers. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. -
Zimmerman Telegram
was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany. -
Sedition Act
was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered . -
18th Amendment
banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure. -
Red Scare
promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. -
Immigration Act of 1924
limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
John Scopes- The Monkey Trials
Trial of teacher John Scopes of Dayton, Tennessee, for the teaching of evolution. During this trial, attorneys Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan squared off on the teachings of Darwin versus the teachings of the Bible. -
20th Amendment
sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
21st Amendment
the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol