Timeline 2

By 760oside

  • Sedition Act

    President John Adams passes the Naturalization Act, the first of four pieces of controversial legislation known together as the Alien and Sedition Acts, on this day in 1798.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The government felt that Chinese laborers were a threat to order in certain localities. The law stated that for the next ten years the Chinese laborers were suspended from coming into the United States.

  • Red Scare

    Promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.

  • Immigration Act of 1924

    set quotas that limited annual immigration from particular countries. The legislation identified who could enter as a "non-quota" immigrant.

  • John Scopes - The Monkey Trial

    On July 10th, 1925. The defendant, John Thomas Scopes, was a high school coach and substitute teacher who had been charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching the theory of evolution in his classes. The Butler Act forbid the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of Creationism. By teaching that man had descended from apes, the theory of evolution, Scopes was charged with breaking the law.

  • Eugene V. Debs

    Began his rise to prominence in Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. He entered politics as a Democratic City Clerk in 1879, and in 1885 he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen.

  • 18th - 21st amendments

    The movement reached its apex in 1920 when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors.

  • Jim Crow laws

    the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.