Izzy’s timeline

  • Sedition act

    One of the first tests of freedom of speech
  • Wilson’s presidency term

    Served 2 full terms of office and created League of Nations after WW1
  • WW1

    12 Million letters were delivered to the frontline every week.
  • Lusitania

    Sank in 18 minutes
  • Great migration timeframe

    Relocated more than 6 Million African Americans
  • Jeannette Rankin

    She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916
  • Selective service act

    This act authorized the federal government to temporarily expand the military through conscription
  • Espionage act

    Prohibited people from intentionally making false reports to interface with the success of the military
  • Lenin led a Russian Revolution

    The Bolshevicks believed Lenin’s dictum that the Russian Revolution was to be the vanguard of a world socialist revolution
  • Wilson’s 14 points

    Was created to find a strategy to ending WW1
  • Spanish flu

    Infected around 500 Million people
  • Schenk vs. US

    Was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the espionage act
  • 19th amendment

    The right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US
  • US senate rejects treaty of Versailles

    Senate rejects treaty because president Wilson Woodrow failed to take senators’ objections to the agreement into consideration
  • The Professional American Football League

    The Professional American Football League

    The franchise fee to join was $100
  • The first America pageant

    The first America pageant

    It is held in New Jersey and is won by Margaret Gorman
  • Teapot dome scandal

    Convicted people of accepting bribes from the oil companies
  • The First Olympic Games

    The First Olympic Games

    The first Olympic is held in the French Alps in Chamonix, France with sixteen nations sending athletes to participate, one being the US who won four medals
  • The Scopes Trial Begins

    The Scopes Trial Begins

    It convicted John T. Scopes of teaching Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory at a high school in Tennessee, violating the law. He was fined $100.
  • The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse

    The first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse

    Their first film was a short animation called “Plane Crazy”