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He was a leader of the Progressive Movement, and he was the 28th President of the United States. After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”
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Started After the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Ended in 1918
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A German U-boat torpedoed the steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans
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The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970
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He was the head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917. The bloody upheaval marked the end of the oppressive Romanov dynasty and centuries of imperial rule in Russia.
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Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to Congress in 1917. Rankin had campaigned as a progressive in 1916.
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The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service.
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It prohibited obtaining information or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent to be used for the injury of the United States.
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was a severe pandemic. It was caused by an H1N1 virus. It spread worldwide during 1918-1919
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Fourteen Points is a declaration by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during World War I outlining his proposals for a postwar peace settlement.
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The Sedition Act imposed harsh penalties on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the prosecution of the war, insulting or abusing the U.S. government, the flag, the Constitution, or the military.
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A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of speech protection could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.”
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In November the treaty was sent to the Senate floor with 14 reservations, but no amendments. The Senate, for the first time in its history, rejected a peace treaty.
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A scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall
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The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors. Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919, and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920.
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A Ponzi scheme involves a phony investment in which early investors are paid with the investments of later investors making the enterprise appear legitimate.
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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
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A bomb struck Wall Street in New York City killing 38 people. No group claimed responsibility for the crime, which remains unsolved.
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On November 2, 1920, the station KDKA made the nation's first commercial broadcast. They chose that date because it was election day, and people could hear the results of the Harding-Cox presidential race before they read about it in the newspaper.
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Under the law, immigration remained open to those with a college education and/or special skills, but entry was denied to Mexicans, and disproportionately to Eastern and Southern Europeans and Japanese, and the legislation allowed for more immigration from Northern European nations.
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