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Wilson's Presidency term
The 28th U.S. president, served in office from march 4,1913 to March 4,1921 and led America through World War I. Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. -
WW1 Timeframe
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead. Lasted until Nov 11,1918 -
Lusitania
British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany two years later. -
Great Migration Timeframe
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. -
Selective Service Act
Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft. -
Espionage Act
Designed to crush subversion and silence critics of the war. For those convicted of aiding the enemy, obstructing military recruitment, protesting conscription, or saying or doing anything to impede the war effort, the maximum fine was up to $10,000 and 20 years in a federal prison. -
Lenin led a Russian Revolution
Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. -
Influenza (flu) pandemic
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.A viruses emerge which are able to infect people easily and spread from person to person in an efficient and sustained way. -
Wilson's 14 points
Woodrow Wilson's Message
The 14 points included proposals to ensure world peace in the future: open agreements, arms reductions, freedom of the seas, free trade, and self-determination for oppressed minorities. -
The Sedition Act
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 with the sale of government bonds. -
Schenck v. United States
Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.” -
US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles
In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. They have made the French treaty subject to the authority of the League, which is not to be tolerated. -
Band-Aid
The Band-Aid was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee, Earle Dickson in Highland Park, New Jersey, for his wife Josephine, who frequently cut and burned herself while cooking.The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance. -
Nineteenth Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary of Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Gall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming. -
Time magazine
Time magazine was created by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. 96 years ago -
SAT
In 1926 the SAT is administered to high school students for the first time. Sample some questions from 1926 test. James Conant is appointed president of Harvard. His assistants, Henry Chauncey and Wilbur Bender are given the task of figuring out a way to select public school students for a Harvard scholarship program. -
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
They were created by H. B. Reese, a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese left his job at The Hershey Company to start his own candy business. -
Stock Market Crash
Four-day collapse of stock prices that ended on October 29, 1929. When share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Lost the equivalent of $396 billion today. It was more than the total cost of World War I. It destroyed confidence in Wall Street markets and led to the Great Depression. -
Year of first woman elected to Congress
Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first woman elected to Congress, was sworn into the House. Rankin had campaigned as a progressive, pledging to work for a constitutional woman suffrage amendment and emphasizing social welfare issues.
