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laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to promote segregation of Blacks and Whites.
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Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea.
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was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
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Was the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker revolution and political radicalism.
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Was imprisoned for speaking out against the US involvement in WW1.
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An act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, like speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.
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Prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic drinks. This was an important day for the country, during the womens suffrage movement, people believed alcohol caused poverty, and violence.
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Granted women the right to vote
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The act represented the first major attempt to restrict immigration into the United States.
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Was the trial of John scopes, in which Scopes was charged with teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution but it was illegal to do so as it was in direct contradiction to the word of God.
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Sets the date when elected offices end.
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Cancelled the 18th amendment.