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Many African Americans migrated towards the North in order to take advantage of labor shortage. Ended 1970.
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Woodrow Wilson becomes The 28th President of The United States. Term ended March 4, 1921.
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World War I begins. Ends on November 11, 1918
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The Lusitania sinks in the English Channel.
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Jeanette Rankin joins Congress, making her the first woman in Congress.
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A revolution that began that dismantled the Tsarist autocracy. This led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Espionage act was passed in the United States.
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A pandemic involving a deadly type of influenza. Ended December 1920.
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Negotiations that President Wilson made in an effort to end World War I.
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The United States enacts the Sedition Act.
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A Supreme Court case that concerned the enforcement of The Espionage Act. Decided on March 3, 1919.
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The United States rejects to join the League of Nations.
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The United States Senate decides to reject the Treaty of Versailles.
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Women are allowed suffrage.
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On the busiest corner of Wall Street an improvised bomb was detonated. As a result of this bombing thirty-eight people were killed. At the time this was the worst terrorist attach in American History.
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Warren G. Harding was elected the 29th president of The United States. Harding ran against James M. Cox. Harding won both the popular and electoral vote receiving 60.3% of popular votes. Harding ran for the Republican Party in the election of 1920. Harding's presidency ended with his death on August 2, 1923.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the amount of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided visas to 2% of the total number of people of each nationality as of the 1890 census.
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The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic downturn in the western industrialized world. It began with the stock market crash in October 1929. After that consumer spending and investment dropped which eventually led to a lot of unemployment and banks failing. The Depression ended in 1939 when World War II began.
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Share prices on the New York stock exchange collapsed. This was the most devastating stock market crash in United States history. This event started The Great Depression,