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Jim Crow Laws
Stated that everyone was separate or equal and sprouted off of Black Laws. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Sinking of Lusitania
When Germany torpedoes a British passenger ship believed to be smuggling arms, anger at the resulting American deaths increases pressure on President Wilson to enter World War I. -
Zimmerman Telegraph
In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. -
Sedition Act
It was an 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 -
18th Amendment
called for the banning of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages -
19th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
Immigration Act of 1924
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. -
John Scopes-Monkey Trial
was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Eugene Vs Debs
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Debs was five times the presidential candidate of the Socialist party. He was imprisoned in the 1890s for illegally encouraging a railway strike; Clarence Darrow was his defense attorney. -
20th Amendment
it tried to eliminate Lame Duck presidents and legislators. It is also important because it failed. Before the 20th Amendment the presidential term and the congressional term both started on March 4 of the year after the election. -
21st Amendment
was an admission of the terrible failure of prohibition, which led to people disrespecting the law and criminals to do well selling illegal alcohol to those that wanted it. Repealing the 18th amendment didn't make alcohol completely legal through the entire country. -
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Red Scare
Many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology.