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Woodrow Wilson, served two full terms of office. He was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. This means he was serving during World War 1.
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World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. When the war was over, more than 16 million people were dead.
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The sinking of the Lusitania was an important event in World War I. The death of so many innocent civilians caused American support in entering the war.
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The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities more up North and Midwest. This then ended during the 1970s.
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Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman to serve in Congress.
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This act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military. After this was passed, over 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft.
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The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited obtaining information of anything relating to the national defense. You can’t give any information to anyone for the use of being against the United States.
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It was led by revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, he seized power and destroyed csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party.
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The Fourteen Points was a speech given by President Woodrow Wilson. It gave the principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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The first case was discovered in Kansas. It became a global pandemic for two years. It infected about 500 million people worldwide, and it also killed over 50 million people worldwide.
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This Act extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses. This included speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with government bonds.
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It was a legal case in which a court ruled that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented a clear and present danger.
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The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles because they didn’t like the idea of the League of Nations. This mainly happened because Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators.
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The Nineteenth Amendment was a ratification on August 18, 1920 and women were then granted the right to vote.
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A bomb delivered of dynamite and horse-drawn carriage exploded in lower Manhattan's financial district of Wall Street. It killed 40 people and injured about 300 others.
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He served from March 4, 1921 until he died in 1923. He was a conservative from Ohio. As president he established the country’s first budget process. He died of a heart attack while serving in office.
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It involved cabinet members who accepted valuable gifts & large sums of money from private oil companies, and in exchange they allowed the oil companies to control government oil reserves. This was the first time cabinet members ever to be convicted of a crime while in office.
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The stadium was completed in only 284 days. It was the home of the New York Yankees. The stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees.
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This gave the citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. It was also known as the Snyder Act.
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It started as a radio corporation, and now it is the largest broadcasting network in the United States. It was founded in New York City by the Radio Corporation of America.
