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Eugene V Debs
Eugene V. Debs began his rise to prominence in “Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.” he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union. After embracing socialism, he became the party’s standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States’ involvement in World War II. -
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Eugene V Debs
Eugene V. Debs began his rise to prominence in “Indiana’s Terre Haute lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.” he was elected to the Indiana State Assembly with broad support from Terre Haute’s workers and businessmen. Debs organized the American Railway Union. After embracing socialism, he became the party’s standard-bearer in five presidential elections. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his opposition to the United States’ involvement in World War II. -
Jim Crow laws
These laws were intended to make free African-Americans lives harder by giving them strict and unfair rules that only applied to them. Jim Crow laws existed primarily between the end of the Civil War to the mid-1960s. They often suggested segregation and discrimination. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. Although the Chinese composed only .002 percent of the nation’s population, Congress passed the exclusion act for the worker’s demands and eased on prevalent concerns about maintaining white “racial purity.” -
Sinking of the Lusitania
less than a year after World War I erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans. the sinking of the Lusitania played a significant role in turning public opinion against Germany, both in the United States and abroad. -
Zimmerman Telegram
a message from the German foreign secretary to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany.This was published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
In the telegram, Count Johann von Bernstorff, offered significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
Sedition Act
The purpose of the Sedition act was to prevent people and especially newspapers from speaking out against and criticizing the government. A major reason the colonists went to war to gain their freedom. -
18th amendment
It prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages. -
19th amendment
It granted women the right to vote. -
Immigration Act of 1924
It limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States. -
John Scopes - The Monkey Trial
an American legal case in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged to attract publicity to the small town of Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that the case could have a defendant. -
Eugene V Debs Died
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20th amendment
Sets the dates the federal government can elect offices end. In also says who succeeds the president if the president dies. -
21st amendment
The United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had “mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol.” -
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Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified, Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare(Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.). The Red Scare led to Federal employees being analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government and the “House Un-American Activities Committee”. fear for the Red Scare finally began to ease by the late 1950s.