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Woodrow Wilson was president from March 4, 1913, till March 4, 1921. He led America through World War I and tried to keep the United States neutral, but he had to call upon Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. He negotiated the Treaty of Versailles and crafted the League of Nations.
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An international war that started in Europe, also known as the great war. It started after the assassination of Archduke Frans Ferdinand of Austria, When the war was over more than 16 million people, soldiers into millions had died, and the Allied powers won.
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The Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk on Friday, May 7, 1915, during the first world war. Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom, and the submarine sank the Lusitania which was heading from New York to Liverpool England.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected into congress, she is sworn into the house of representatives. She campaigned as a progressive in 1916 wanting to work for or a woman suffrage amendment and she emphasized social welfare issues.
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The Great Migration, which lasted 54 years (1916-1970), was also known as the "Black Migration". It was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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The espionage act made it a crime for any person to disclose information intended to interfere with the US Army's or to promote the success of the United States enemies.
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In 1917 congress passed the selective service act, which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law. The act required all men in the United States between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for the military.
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In November of 1917 leftists, revolutionaries who were led by Vladimir Lenin launched an almost bloodless coup against the Duma's government. Revolution created in 1923 when the Bolshevik establishment turned into the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War.
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This act criminalized any "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" but the US government or military.
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Spanish flu was an unforeseen deadly influenza pandemic that was caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus, it lasted from February 8, 1918, to April 1920 and it affected about 500,000,000 people which was about a third of the world's population at the time.
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The 14 points were a proposal made by President Woodrow Wilson in a speech, he outlined his vision for ending the first world war in a way that could prevent it from occurring again.
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Schenck versus the United States was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court that concerned the enforcement of the espionage act of 1917 during World War I. The Supreme Court did not rule in favor of Schenck and sent him to jail.
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In 1919 the Senate of the United States of America rejected the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty formally ended World War I and the Senate rejected it partially because President Woodrow ignored senators' objections to the agreement.
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The 19th amendment guarantees women the right to vote. It states "The rights of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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The teapot dome scandal was a bribery scandal that involved the administration of the 29th President of the United States, Warren G Harding. It started in 1921, ended in 1923, and convicted everyone who accepted bribes from the oil companies.
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In the fall of 1923, President Calvin Coolidge took office after the sudden death of the former President Warren G Harding.
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In the summer of 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, it granted citizenship to all Native Americans that were born within the territorial limits of the United States.
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1925 started with the bang, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first female governor in the United States, and she remains the only woman to have been governor of Wyoming.
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From October 4, 1927, to October 31, 1941, Mount Rushmore was in the process of being built, it was a huge project that involved nearly 400 men and women. The project itself was to honor some of the American presidents, presidents that are on the carving include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
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The first Academy Awards, now known more commonly as the Oscars, were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1929, they honored the best films of 1927 and 1928. It was a private dinner held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Douglas Fairbanks.
