Nadia McCormick - Timeline week 4

By NadiaMc

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    • United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
    • It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history.

  • Jim Crow laws

    • State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    • A ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.
    • Killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors.

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    • An internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office.

  • Sedition Act

    • An Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses.

  • Eugene V. Debs

    • An American union leader.
    • One of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

  • Red Scare

    • The promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
    • The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism.

  • 18th Amendment

    • Established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

  • 21st Amendment

    • Repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

  • 20th Amendment

    • Sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end.

  • 19th Amendement

    • Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex.

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    • A United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States.

  • John Scopes - The Monkey Trial

    • An American legal case in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act